Courses and Seminars

The Management-Based Safety Process
Critical Elements for Achieving Safety Excellence
Creating Line Management Safety and Health
Leadership
Using the Senior Manager to attain Safety

Performance Excellence

Maximizing Safety Performance in a Small

Business

Worker and Workplace Auditing
Effective Incident Investigations
Job (Task) Safety Analysis
The Law as it Impacts Safety, Health, and
Environmental Professionals*
Corporate Safety Management*

*Offered through the American Society of Safety Engineers

Course and Seminar Descriptions

“The Management-Based Safety Process”
This course focuses on providing attendees with an understanding the problems with past
and contemporary safety management approaches, reviewing the major organizational
reasons for improving safety performance, discussing the critical elements needed for
achieving safety performance excellence in organizations, and learning the   Management-
Based Safety process. In addition attendees are taught various tools designed to implement
the Management-Based Safety process within their organization.

Intended Audience: Senior Management, Middle Managers, Line Managers, and Safety Professionals. Note that
presentations are customized to specific groups.

Presentation Time: One day for senior managers, two days for middle managers, first-line supervisors, and safety
and health staff personnel.

Note: This course delivered as part of the Management Based Safety Process.

“Critical Elements for Achieving Safety Excellence”
For organizations to move from a level of good performance to a level of great, several
elements need to become institutionalized. These elements become the building blocks for
the achievement of safety performance excellence. Most organizations desire to improve
performance for four main reasons. They include legal, financial, moral and ethical, and
corporate recognition. Once the driver for improved performance is established, the
organization needs to begin embracing various elements to effectively begin the culture
change process. These critical elements include: demonstrated and visible senior
management leadership, a communicated and understood safety philosophy, an effective
safety management structure, line management ownership and accountability for safety
performance, a supportive EH&S staff, established high standards of performance, effective
employee motivation, aggressive and achievable goals and objectives, deliberate ongoing
communications, ample employee training, unconditional regulatory compliance, and the use
of a systematic approach to control injuries, incidents, and property damage.

As the above-mentioned critical elements become institutionalized, the organizations safety
culture will change significantly and substantial improvements will occur. Safety performance
will become value driven and safety excellence will be attained and sustained.

Intended Audience: Senior Management Teams, Middle Managers, Line Managers, and Safety Professionals. Note:
presentations are customized to specific groups.

Presentation Time: One day course for senior managers, two day course for middle managers, first-line
supervisors, and safety and health staff personnel. A half day short course and two hour seminar version is also available.

“Using the Senior Manager to attain Safety Performance Excellence”
This course begins with an in-depth evaluation of the numerous failures associated with the
traditional approaches used by organizations to manage safety performance outcomes. The
course then discusses the several contemporary approaches used to facilitate performance
improvements including the strengths and weaknesses of these processes and why they have
proven to produce only limited success.   The course then explores the major reasons why
organizations desire to improve safety performance and discusses the critical elements
needed for achieving excellence in any organization. The course concludes with a discussion
of the key activities senior managers need to employ to have a culture changing effect on
safety performance within their areas managed.

Intended Audience: Senior Management and Upper Mid- Level Managers and Safety Professionals. Note presentations are
customized to specific groups.

Presentation Time: Two hour seminar.

“Creating Line Management Safety and Health Leadership”
This highly acclaimed, thought-provoking and motivational seminar focuses on how and why
line management can successfully be engaged within an organization to significantly enhance
safety management and loss control efforts. The seminar discusses the many traditional
approaches that have been used to manage the safety effort. These traditional approaches,
although like “motherhood and apple pie” can only create limited success, even if done to
perfection. The seminar then reviews various contemporary approaches that have been
employed by many organizations recently, only to find that safety excellence was not attained
or sustained with those approaches either. The seminar then concludes with a thorough
discussion of how demonstrated and visible senior management commitment, leadership, and
involvement can have a profound impact on safety performance within any organization.

Intended Audience: Senior Management Teams, Middle Managers, Line Managers, and Safety Professionals. Note presentations
are customized to specific groups.

Presentation Time: Two hour seminar version or half day course version.

“Maximizing Safety Performance for Small Business”
In small business, it is difficult to manage safety performance due to limited resources. This
seminar teaches attendees: the Most Frequently Cited OSHA Violations and how to easily
comply with them; the OSHA Regulations and Standards that apply to your company;
simplified compliance with OSHA’s Training and Written Program requirements; OSHA’s New
Record-keeping and Reporting Requirements and how improper Reporting can lead to a
costly workplace inspection; OSHA’s penalties and successful ways to get them reduced or
eliminated following an inspection; how to stay off of OSHA’s inspection list; how to defend
your organization before, during, and after an OSHA Inspection; ways to protect yourself, your
boss, and your company from workplace liability and criminal prosecution; avoiding the
pitfalls of Workers Compensation and minimizing your company’s liability; and strategies to
beat the Workers Compensation attorneys at their own game. In addition, attendees learn:
how to have the greatest Impact on controlling escalating Workers Compensation costs, and
the Key Elements that produce Safety Performance Excellence in any business.

Intended Audience: Business Owners and Partners, Plant Managers, Department Managers and Supervisors, Safety Committee
members, Human Resources Professionals, Safety Professionals, Medical Professionals, Loss Control and Risk Management
Professionals.

Presentation Time: One day.

“Worker and Workplace Auditing”
Unsafe worker actions and unsafe workplace conditions are the cause of all incidents and
injuries. This course provides attendees with an in-depth understanding of the factors that
contribute to creation and mitigation of these acts and conditions. Attendees learn how to
quickly recognize, evaluate, and take steps to deal with these acts and conditions controlling
their future re-occurrence. An audit protocol is taught along with the proper ways to discuss
unsafe acts and conditions with employees. If desired by the customer, attendees then
actually practice field auditing in an effort to further develop audit protocol skills.

Intended Audience: Senior Managers, Middle Managers, Line Managers and Safety Professionals, and Safety Committee members.

Presentation Time:   One half day for classroom and one day if field auditing is desired.

“Effective Incident Investigations”
This course is taught in conjunction with “Creating Line Management Safety and Health
Leadership” or as a stand-alone course for organizations desiring to improve the incident
investigation process. The course focuses attendees on understanding what factors are
involved in all incidents, why incidents occur, and discusses the specific causes of incidents
along with methods of prevention. Attendees are taught an incident investigation protocol
designed to identify root causes of incidents and prevent their re-occurrence within the
organization.

Intended Audience: Senior Managers, Middle Managers, Line Managers and Safety Professionals, and Safety Committee members.

Presentation Time: One day.

“Job (Task) Safety Analysis”
A primary reason that incidents and injuries occur is due to the fact that hazards within tasks
were never properly identified prior to performing the task or that employees were never
trained properly on hazard avoidance methods. This course teaches attendees the method
used for the development of Job (Task) Safety Analysis documents. The Job (Task) Safety
Analysis method identifies major task steps, hazards inherent within each step, and the
specific ways employees can perform the job safely. These documents once completed are
used for formal and informal training, to enhance the incident investigation process, to use as
pre-task briefing tools, for safety meeting discussions, and to satisfy numerous regulatory
procedure, employee assessment, and training requirements.

Intended Audience: Middle Managers, Line Managers and Safety Professionals, and Safety Committee members.

Presentation Time: One day.

“The Law as it Impacts Safety, Health and Environmental Professionals”
This course focuses on discussing various types of liability exposures faced by corporations
and individuals within the Safety, Health, and Environmental field. Specific liability exposures
discussed include worker causes of action, 3rd party liability, contractor liability, OSHA and
EPA regulatory liability, etc. In addition, the course provides attendees with specific methods
to minimize liability exposure for the corporation as well as individuals who practice in the field
of Safety, Health, and Environmental management.

Intended Audience: Safety, Health and Environmental Professionals, and support personnel.

Presentation Time: Two days preferably but can also be condensed to one day if necessary.

“Corporate Safety Management”
Corporate safety management focuses on various subject areas designed to improve personal
and professional performance of both seasoned safety, health, and environmental
professionals and those just entering or aspiring to be in the corporate safety function. Topics
covered include: leadership qualities and skill development, leading people and the safety
function, improving personal and professional skills and achieving corporate safety
performance excellence.

Intended Audience: Safety, health and environmental professionals, and support personnel.

Presentation Time: Three days.