Unsafe Employees: How to Fix—or Fire—Them and Minimize Your Legal Risks
Unsafe Employees Webinar Recording
Any effective safety and health management program requires discipline and follow-through from both management and workers.
Often, however, employers fail to follow through on reforming or terminating unsafe workers, instead just letting them continue to flail along while putting themselves and others at risk.
While the threat of a termination-related lawsuit is undoubtedly sobering, doing nothing is far from an acceptable solution. Failing to act when an unsafe employee ignores safety practices or engages in reckless behaviors can destroy your safety culture. Morale drops, injury risk increases, and you face greater exposure to compliance-related complaints and citations.
Join us on April 11 for an in-depth webinar and learn how to reform—or fire—without fear.
You and your colleagues will learn:
- How to establish a clear, effective safety program
- Why consistent enforcement of your safety procedures and practices is essential to your culture and productivity
- How to coach, reform, or ultimately terminate an employee for safety issues while keeping your legal risks at a minimum
- The “zero tolerance” situations in which immediate termination is appropriate
- Strategies to avoid whistleblower or retaliation lawsuits and claims
- How to reduce risks of fraudulent workers’ compensation and disability bias claims from unsafe employees
- Why a comprehensive training program is critical—and how to get one in place
- Effective steps to document and track safe and unsafe performance
- Common pitfalls that will open you up to complaints, citations, and poor morale—and how to avoid them
- Steps for ensuring that your discipline process will not result in OSHA citations or penalties
- Why effective management of your safety program helps protect both your employees and your bottom-line profits
This webinar was recorded on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Unsafe Employees: How to Fix—or Fire—Them and Minimize Your Legal Risks
About Your Speaker:
Fred Walter, Esq. of Walter & Price, LLP has represented employers in California and other states in OSHA compliance matters and "serious & willful misconduct" claims since 1985. He works with employers, general counsel, safety directors, risk managers and human resources administrators defending OSHA citations and developing effective safety programs that answer regulatory mandates.
Walter leads the firm's crisis management practice, providing clients with legal advice and representation during and after critical events. His article, "Crisis Management: The Legal Perspective," was published in the March 2003 edition ofSafety Professional.
He is often invited to speak on topics related to workplace safety for the firm's clients, public agencies and professional organizations. He and his partner, Lisa Prince, are co-authors of the "Workplace Safety" chapter of the California State Bar publication, Advising California Employers and Employees.
