Education & Training - Action Item 1

Action Item 1: Provide program awareness training.

Managers, supervisors, and workers should all understand the program's structure, plans, and procedures.

Management can do this through the following actions:

• Provide information on the safety and health hazards of the workplace and the controls for those hazards.
• Ensure that training is provided in the languages and at a literacy level that all workers can understand.
• Emphasize that the program can only work when everyone is involved and feels comfortable discussing concerns, making suggestions, and reporting injuries, incidents, and hazards.
• Confirm, as part of the training, that all workers have the right to report injuries, incidents, hazards, and concerns and to fully participate in the program without fear of retaliation.
• Provide training to all managers, supervisors, workers, contractors, subcontractors, and temporary agency workers on the following:
  • Safety and health policies, goals, and procedures
  • Functions of the safety and health program
  • Who to contact with questions or concerns about the safety and health program (including contact information)
  • How to report hazards, injuries, illnesses, and close calls and near misses
  • What to do in an emergency
  • The employer's responsibilities under the program
  • Workers' rights under the OSH Act

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