Workplace Safety Awareness

Course Abstract

25 minutes

Prevent accidents and promote workplace safety by educating your employees about how to keep themselves, their coworkers and customers safe. This course increases awareness of the types of hazards that exist in the workplace and equips employees to recognize and eliminate potential hazards in order to ensure a safe place to work and eat.

• Common slip, trip, and fall hazards that put employees and customers at risk and basic methods for protecting against them
  
  
• The best methods for safe lifting and carrying to avoid injury
  
  
• The importance and basics of ladder safety
  
  
• Detailed information for avoiding cuts and burns when operating common pieces of restaurant equipment

• Methods and techniques that will help employees stay safe when working with chemicals
  
  
• Basic fire safety guidelines, including basic steps for operating a fire extinguisher, should a fire occur
  
  
• Specific instruction regarding when it is necessary for employees to alert a manager about a workplace safety issue, rather than trying to eliminate a hazard themselves