Safety Department of One: How To Keep Workers Safe and Avoid Penalties for Noncompliance
Safety Department of One Webinar Recording
Whether by happenstance or design, your company now has exactly one person in charge of workplace safety – and it’s you.
Where’s the best place to start, given limited time and money, to make sure you keep your workers safe and keep your company in compliance? What should you be focusing on? How do you make sure you stay on top of everything?
Join us for the answers to these and all your other questions about being a “safety department of one.”
You and your colleagues will learn:
- The single most important thing to turn your attentions to – before anything else
- Which regulations you need to keep track of, and how to be sure you stay on top of compliance issues
- How to write and implement a safety program that prioritizes the biggest issues while identifying areas for improvement
- How to set up a proactive and engaged safety committee to be your eyes, ears, and hands when it comes to training and operating safely
- The “must complete” forms and documentation to have on hand should an OSHA compliance officer pay you a visit
- What to do in case of an accident - who to notify, what forms to complete, and how to prevent the accident from occurring again
- When to seek the help of an outside safety consultant – and how to find a good, affordable one
- Resources and training that can make you a better safety professional and improve your day-to-day safety management skills
This webinar was recorded on Thursday, March 15, 2012
Safety Department of One: How To Keep Workers Safe and Avoid Penalties for Noncompliance
About Your Speaker:
Fran Sehn is the Assistant Vice President, Casualty Risk Control Services, for Willis of PA. He is the Foundry practice leader and provides risk control consulting service for eleven ferrous and non-ferrous foundries in the US. Recently he has focused on safety compliance for this group of clients. His consulting work also includes providing safety audits, hazard assessments and safety training for a variety of manufacturing, commercial and industrial clients. He also works with several educational institutions in the Pittsburgh providing safety and risk control guidance for their safety committee efforts.
Sehn is an OSHA Outreach Trainer for both General Industry and Construction and a frequent speaker and lecturer on safety, risk management and workers’ compensation issues.
