Orientation, Instruction, and Training
To help make sure managers, supervisors, and employees do their jobs safely, they must receive adequate:
- initial safety instruction on OSHA standards and the company's CSMS,
- training on safety procedures and practices, and
- on the job experience
You should also evaluate safety training and performance periodically to make sure everyone understands their safety responsibilities as well as related OSHA standards.
How to Monitor Worksite Safety Training
Your company should provide training to protect your employees and to assure OSHA requirements for construction workers are met. It will also be very important to continuously monitor the effectiveness of employee training needs to keep workers safe and healthy on the job. To do that, make sure employees are observed regularly by supervisors and safety staff.
Use observation, interviews and written exams as necessary to make sure:
- all employees, including contractors, understand the hazards to which they may be exposed and how to prevent harm to themselves and others;
- supervisors and managers understand their responsibilities and the reasons for them;
- periodic, annual (if required), and as-needed refresher training is performed; and
- workers are trained on first aid and how to respond to emergencies on the worksite.
Idea: To help make sure safety training requirements are met, let employees know that completion of safety training is being entered into their performance appraisals and could affect pay raises and career advancement.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
6-2. To help make sure managers, supervisors, and employees perform to CSMS standards, they must receive adequate safety _____.
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