A revision of the book used to train workers throughout industry in safety methods. The new edition retains the presentation of practical applications concerned with design, implementation and monitoring of on-the-job safety training.
The need for health and safety training has never been greater than in today's ever more complex and potentially hazardous industrial workplace. A comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and monitoring on-the-job health and safety training, Safety Training Methods, Second Edition was designed around the principle that worker safety training is an ongoing process and that safety and health-related skills and knowledge must continue to be developed and upgraded throughout an employee's career. Packed with charts, checklists, sample documents, and labels, Safety Training Methods, Second Edition arms trainers with the full retinue of proven training methods and techniques and offers clear, step-by-step guidelines to virtually every phase of a comprehensive safety training program, including new employee and supervisor orientation; training calendars, course ratings, and computer-generated overheads and other training technologies; student training records and course ratings; first aid and CPR, fire protection, emergency response actions and reporting; hazard recognition, inspections, and communications; evaluating safety training program effectiveness and more. While it has retained the many outstanding features that made it the most widely used handbook of its kind for more than a decade, this new Second Edition has been updated to conform to the latest environmental compliance (EC) requirements and occupational safety and health (OSHA) programs for a wide range of industries and organizations. Also new to this edition are a dictionary of commonly used safety and health terms, a model safety program, a variety of usable checklists, many new examples and resource lists, and anexhaustive directory of health-oriented organizations, associations, periodicals, and other publications. Offering timeless training techniques and a comprehensive set of guidelines to creating, implementing, and monitoring safety training programs, Safety Training Methods, Second Edition is an indispensable tool for all those whose job it is to help safeguard the health and safety of industry's most precious natural resource - its workers.
