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Workplace safety starts with a strong safety culture, value and beliefs that employers and employees share in relation to risks in the workplace. Effective leadership is critical as cultural change is complex and hard that leaders need to embrace the safety agenda and lead the efforts across the overall organization. Employee engagement is also critical for a safety culture to evolve. Even if leaders are acting as safety role models, a safety culture will not be sustainable without active participation by all members of an organization. Safety first! Safety is a key enabler of business continuity, operational performance and productivity. Workplace safety can be accomplished through culture, plans, actions and it will only reach its full potential if effective leadership and employee engagement are in place.

This 2-day program will assist on the developing, establishing, implementing, and maintaining a system to identify potential improvement on occupational workplace safety. It will also create awareness and instill safety practices.

Safety and Health Committee (SHC) is where the representatives from both employer and employee come together to develop rules, systems, policies, and review them. It is important for this committee to function to the fullest, for the safety, health and well-being of the people working in our organization. This 2-day program aims to make SHC meetings interesting and productive, by examining the important preparations for before, during and after the meetings. This program also aims to produce a ready-to-use meeting notice and agenda, meeting check list, and template for meeting minute. It is recommended that the participants are allowed to bring a copy of meeting notice and minutes to facilitate their learning.

This program provides delegates with an introduction to identify the occupational health and safety hazard of their company’s process and workplace, the actual or potential risk and how to minimize risks through systematic approach. Training includes the importance of carrying out HIRARC and when it needs to be conducted.

Accident investigations are necessary to identify accident causation and insure implementation of corrective action. Therefore, supervisors shall immediately investigate and report all occurrences (near miss, accidents, and illnesses) with a written investigation report.

...That falls back to the model and framework that bring together the principles and evidence-based effective best practices of experts and practitioners in the field of OSH, to develop and implement OSH policies that address the physical and psychosocial working environments, promotes workers safety and health and creating safety-and-health-promoting work environments.