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Supervisor Development: Safety & Health Fundamentals

Published on February 14, 2012, 10:02am CDT

Part of the Supervisor Safety Certificate

A must for all Supervisors!

DATES & LOCATIONS
2013 course dates already held.
2014 dates coming soon

The Supervisors’ Safety Program trains supervisors and managers to incorporate best safety practices into their daily management activities.

COURSE OVERVIEW
This one-day course will provide new and veteran supervisors with a clear insight into their occupational safety and health responsibilities. This seminar will illustrate how supervisors can reduce accidents, increase profitability and ensure a healthy working environment. Safety and health professionals throughout the country agree that supervisors are the key to accident prevention. Supervisors must possess the training and know-how to help employees do their job correctly, on time, and most importantly, safely.

KEY TOPICS/GOALS/OBJECTIVES

  • Core elements of an effective safety process
  • Identify management deficiencies in the safety system
  • Accident prevention/supervisor responsibility
  • Correcting unsafe practices
  • Accident analysis and techniques
  • Worker’s compensation
  • Red flags for supervisors
  • OSHA’s training requirements
  • OSHA’s most frequently cited serious violations
  • Employee safety behavior
  • Approach safety and health as a management process
  • Apply safety and health education and training methods that promote safe and healthful actions by employees
  • Recognize hazards in the workplace and identify ways to control them
  • Encourage communication between employees and promote employee interest and involvement in safety and health issues
  • Q&A session
  • A key feature of the program requires participants to demonstrate they have acquired the knowledge and skills from training and are prepared to implement them in the workplace.
  • To equip supervisors and managers with the knowledge, leadership skills and methods to apply safety as part of their responsibilities and become effective safety leaders and advocates.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
All levels of management and supervision.

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
This course is a great step to improving your safety leadership and enhancing your career development. Safety and health professionals throughout the country agree that supervisors are the key to accident prevention. Supervisors must possess the training and know-how to help employees do their job correctly, on time, and most importantly, safely.

INSTRUCTOR
Bill Koepnick has over 34 years of experience in safety and health including work as a corporate safety specialist in industry, eleven years with the Wisconsin Safety Council and thirteen years as the President of Professional Training Services, Inc. Koepnick has educated thousands of health and safety professionals across the country and is a regular presenter for the National Safety Council and The Wisconsin Safety Council. As President of Professional Training Services, Inc., Koepnick develops and conducts conferences, specialized in-plant training sessions, safety audits and makes recommendations for compliance and effective safety management.

FEES
WCS/WMC Member $235; Non-Member $300
Course materials included.

SCHEDULE
Registration/Networking: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Course: 8:30 am – 3:30 pm (lunch is included)

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs)
Attend this course and earn .60 CEUs from the Wisconsin Safety Council.

SUPERVISOR SAFETY CERTFICATE COMPONENTS
Earn the Supervisor Safety Certificate by completing the following programs within 3 years.


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Registration confirmations will be mailed. Pre-registration is required.

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Contact Information, Forms and Logistics

Phone: 800.236.3400
Email
Online registration
Mail: Wisconsin Safety Council, PO Box 352, Madison, WI 53701-0352
Fax: 608.258.3413
Directions/lodging to training facilities
Training registration form
Cancellation and substitution policy