Supervisors' Development Self-Directed Study Program

Individual Module Descriptions

Individual Module Pricing

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NOTE: When individual modules are purchased, the Supervisors' Safety Manual, 9th Ed. (Product Number 15143-0000) must be purchased separately. Member price: $79.95 each 7nbsp;Nonmember price: $103.95 each.

Basic Safety

Module 1: Safety Management

Product No. 15571-0000

This module helps you become aware of your role in promoting safety conciousness. Find out what the advantages are of taking a proactive, well-planned approach to safety, health and environmental mangement. You'll also learn ways to implement workplace changes that lead to improved safety and health. Finally, you'll become familiar with strategies for managing change within an organization.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Identify trends in safety management.
Define the terms accident (incident) , near miss, hazard, hazard control, and loss control.
Describe the principles of safety, health and environmental management.
Complete statements that concern planning and budgeting for safety, health and environmental management.
Identify key characteristics of team-based organizations.
Explain how to empower and motivate employees on safety and health issues.
Describe strategies for managing change in attitudes and perceptions about afety and health.

Module 2: Communication

Product No. 15572-0000

The Communication module helps demonstrate that good communication is essential to any safety, health and nvironmental program. Learn to use the Communication model to identify problems and causes of miscommunication. Become familiar with the role listening plays in communication. Finally, you'll find out ways to improve communication in your facility.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Describe the elements of good communication.
Explain how two-way communication works and why feedback is important.
Identify filters that interfere with good communication.
Define the three methods of communication: oral, written and nonverbal.
Explain the importance of listening and how to improve listening skills.
Describe the principles of interviewing and consulting.

Module 3: Human Performance Management

Product No. 15573-0000

The Human Performance Management module demonstrates that maintaining good human relations in the workplace is essential to improving productivity and safety. You will examine team, empowerment, and leadership issues. In addition, you'll identify challenges in your professional and personal life that contribute to stress and identify ways to reduce stress.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Explain the importance of human relations on the job.
Describe how the high-performance team model works.
Explain the components of employee satisfaction.
Describe characteristics of effective leadership.
Explain how to meet challenges such as shift changes, climate extremes, and substance abuse.
Describe how to manage stress.
Explain the impact of off-the-job safety on costs and attitudes in the facility.

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Module 4: Safety and Health Training

Product No. 15574-0000

Shows that effective training in the areas of job orientation, safety, and health are essential in every successful organization. In this module, you'll become familiar with the needs of adult learners and why meeting these needs is essential to the success of a training program. In addition, you will find out how to select a method of training appropriate for the intended audience and how to develop the training following a five-step procedure.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Explain the goals and benefits of education and training.
Identify the needs of adult learners.
Explain how to develop or select an appropriate training program.
Describe the factors involved in delivering a safety education or training program.
Describe the different methods of training.
Identify key safety and health topics to include in an employee orientation program.

Module 5: Promoting Safety and Health

Product No. 15575-0000

The purpose of this module is to introduce strategies to increase employee involvement in the promotion of safety and health throughout the workplace. The strategies covered include using committees, conducting meetings, using various techniques to increase safety and health awareness, and providing training. Also described are job safety analysis (JSA) procedures.

Objectives when you complete this module:

List characteristics of a safety and health committee structure using the best-practice approach.
Identify the main functions and roles of a safety and health committee.
Describe how to conduct an effective safety and health meeting.
Describe and give examples of how to use perception surveys, employee recognition, safety contests and posters, and suggestion systems to promote safety and health issues.
Describe the elements of emergency procedures training.
List facts about a job safety analysis (JSA).

Module 6: Safety, Health and Environmental Auditing

Product No. 15576-0000

This module teaches you why formal and informal audits and inspections of safety, health and environmental practices are crucial to continuous improvement. You'll learn what audits and inspections should include and how they should be conducted.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Describe what an audit is and how it is conducted.
Explain the objectives of formal audits.
List the steps of a safety, health and environmental audit.
Read and follow up on an auditor's report.
Describe how to prepare for an inspection, how often to inspect, and what to inspect.
Write and follow up on an inspection report.

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Module 7: Accident Investigation

Product No. 15577-0000

Accident Investigation teaches you effective investigation techniques. You'll learn how to conduct thorough investigations and analyze reports in order to develop corrective actions that will help prevent future occurrences.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Identify the types of accidents (incidents) to investigate.
Explain the reasons for investigating accidents (incidents), near misses, and hazards.
List the procedures for investigating an accident (incident) from the moment it happens.
Describe how to identify and interview witnesses to collect data during an investigation.
Prepare an accident report and identify the contributing causes and follow-up actions.

Meeting Regulatory Standards

Module 8: Industrial Hygiene

Product No. 15578-0000

The Industrial Hygiene module develops your ability to recognize potential health and physical hazards. You will learn key terms and concepts related to industrial hygiene as well as ways to control or eliminate potential hazards.

Describe the concerns of industrial hygienists.
List four ways that chemical compounds enter the body and how to prevent this from happening.
Identify and describe different types of solid particulate chemicals.
Identify hazards related to solvents.
Identify and describe physical and biological hazards.
Describe the concept and purpose of exposure limits.
Identify reasons for establishing standard operating procedures.

Module 9: Personal Protective Equipment

Product No. 15579-0000

This module enables you to improve the personal protective equipment (PPE) program in your facility. You will become more aware of why and where PPE needs to be used and ways to overcome objections to using the equipment.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Describe the role of PPE in controlling exposure to hazards in the workplace.
List the criteria for an effective PPE program.
Identify parts of the body most vulnerable to injury, name hazards associated with each, and describe the appropriate PPE.
List ways to overcome employees' objections to wearing PPE.

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Module 10: Ergonomics

Product No. 15580-0000

The Ergonomics module introduces the basic principles of ergonomics. You will learn how to detect and control or eliminate potential ergonomic problems in a wide variety of work situations. In addition, you will become familiar with the ways in which applying ergonomic principles in the workplace can improve productivity, quality and safety.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Define ergonomics.
Describe the principles of ergonomics.
Identify common ergonomic illnesses.
List ways to detect and identify ergonomic problems.
Explain how physiology, anthropometrics, and biomechanics contribute to solving work-stress problems.
Apply ergonomic principles to materials movement and workplace adaptability.
Give examples of how to reduce ergonomic problems related to hand work, hand tools, whole-body vibration,\ video display terminals, and other work-related stresses.

Module 11: Hazard Communication

Product No. 15581-0000

This module makes you familiar with the means available for learning about chemical hazards so that you can protect yourself and your co -workers from injury and illness. It will introduce you to the guidelines established by the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HCS).

Objectives when you complete this module:

Describe the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) and identify its intent.
Identify several key content areas of a written Hazard Communication program.
Identify labeling requirements and types of materials that are exempt from HCS labeling.
Describe requirements for nonroutine elements of a Hazard Communication program.

Module 12: Environmental Management

Product No. 15582-0000

The Environmental Management module acquaints you with the issues surrounding the protection of workers and the general public from workplace-related toxic chemicals and environmental threats. You will become familiar with key points of the federal legislation that regulates potential environmental problems and how to comply with these regulations.

Objectives when you complete this module:

List the primary responsibilities of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Identify key points of major federal environmental legislation and trends in state legislation.
Describe areas of effective chemical management and record keeping.
List training and personnel issues pertaining to environmental management.
Describe the basic components of a hazardous material emergency response plan.
Identify special considerations in storing hazardous chemical and other materials.
Describe issues related to the shift in policy to preventing pollution.

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Using Tools and Equipment Safely

Module 13: Machine Safeguarding

Product No. 15583-0000

The Machine Safeguarding module helps you identify and assess mechanical hazards and the various types of machine safeguards that are available. You will learn to protect against hazards caused by moving machine parts and to determine which safeguards are acceptable.

Identify types and benefits of machine safeguarding.
Identify design factors that affect safeguard effectiveness and safety.
List safeguard options available for different types of mechanical hazards.
Identify hazards related to automated machines and equipment.
Recognize the supervisor's responsibilities in inspecting and maintaining machine safeguards.

Module 14: Hand Tools and Portable Power Tools

Product No. 15584-0000

This module teaches you to work with coworkers to control or eliminate hazards associated with hand tools and portable power tools. You will learn safe procedures and the causes of the most frequent accidents (incidents).

Objectives when you complete this module:

Describe safe work practices for hand and portable power tools.
List hazards and safety procedures for various hand tools and various power tools.
Describe supervisory considerations in managing tools.

Module 15: Materials Handling and Storage

Product No. 15585-0000

The Materials Handling and Storage module makes you aware of the dangers and costs of materials handling accidents (incidents). You will learn to recognize the hazards associated with unsafe storage of materials and learn techniques to control these hazards and prevent future accident (incidents).

Objectives when you complete this module:

Identify the major causes of materials handling injuries.
Describe safe manual materials handling methods and guidelines.
Identify the safety guidelines, hazards, and special considerations associated with various types of materials handling equipment.
List ways to minimize hazards of material storage.

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Module 16: Electrical Safety

Product No. 15586-0000

This module familiarizes you with basic electrical hazards and encourages safe practices around electricity. Electrical accidents (incidents), deaths, and fires are among the most common and costly of safety hazards. You will learn that electrical safety is important both on and off the job and that electrocution is potentially preventable.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Define basic electrical terms.
Recognize myths and misconceptions about electricity.
Identify factors that contribute to electrical shock.
Describe basic principles of grounding.
Describe the safe use of plug- and cord-connected equipment and extension cords.
Describe branch circuit and equipment testing methods.
Explain the uses of ground-fault circuit interrupters.
Identify types of hazardous locations and electrical safety requirements for each.
List and explain elements of an effective electrical safety program in the workplace and at home.

Module 17: Fire Safety

Product No. 15587-0000

The Fire Safety module introduces you to the causes of fires and prepares you to recognize those hazards in the workplace and minimize or eliminate them. You will become familiar with policies and procedures on fire protection equipment, systems, and evacuation and learn how to identify the main components of an effective fire safety program.

Objectives when you complete this module:

Explain basic principles of fire.
Identify fire hazards and preventive measures.
List the goals of a fire prevention program and the criteria that fire protection systems should meet.
Describe the different classes of fire and methods for distinguishing them.
Describe how to handle special fire safety situations in the workplace.
Identify the frequency and content of different types of fire safety training.

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