Fundamentals of Occupational Health and Safety (FOHS)

Participants will gain new knowledge and insights by:

• Understanding the basic safety and health terminology
• Getting a balanced perspective of the full scope of occupational health and safety issues.
• Understanding the concept of hazard identification and risk evaluation and control.
• Components of the communication process and how to improve the effectiveness of safety messages Learning to organize and communicate an effective safety program.
• Learning ways to take actions to investigate incidents and prevent recurrence.
• Learning the concept of carrying out safety inspections
• Leading a successful safety team and facilitating productive safety meetings
• Involving employees in safety processes such as safety inspections, safety committees, and employee orientations
• Understand the principles of industrial hygiene and HazCom standards
• Determine when personal protective equipment (PPE) should be used and ways to increase employee acceptance of PPE.
• Participating in development of an emergency action plan.
• Use a safety orientation program to improve employee performance and reduce incidents and costs.
• Developing a site specific safety plan to gain management’s support for it

After successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded with an ARM – Associates Certificate of Completion.