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This course covers the following information:

Slips, Trips and Falls in Construction Environments: Center of Gravity and Maintaining Balance

  • How your body maintains its balance when you walk, stand and work.
  • The positions and motions that tend to reduce your body's stability.

Slips, Trips and Falls in Construction Environments: Slips, Trips and Falls

  • How momentum and friction help you to maintain your stability as you walk.
  • How slips and trips occur with regard to your momentum, friction and center of gravity.
  • What type of fall hazards you may encounter in a workplace.

Slips, Trips and Falls in Construction Environments: Walking Surfaces

  • The differences between non-slip, moderately slippery and slippery walking surfaces.
  • What surfaces are considered to be non-slip, moderately slippery and slippery walking surfaces.
  • The substances that can increase slipperiness when they are spread over a walking and working surface.
  • The areas in your workplace that are likely to be slippery.

Slips, Trips and Falls in Construction Environments: Housekeeping and Maintenance

  • How good housekeeping and maintenance practices can reduce slip, trip and fall hazards in a workplace.
  • What types of objects and substances can create slip and trip hazards when they are allowed to accumulate on a walking and working surface.
  • The housekeeping and maintenance procedures you should follow to reduce or eliminate slip and trip hazards in your facility.

Slips, Trips and Falls in Construction Environments: Footwear

  • How different types of footwear can increase or decrease your chances of slipping, tripping and falling.
  • The types of shoes, heels and soles that can help to increase your stability when you are walking and working.
  • Why you should inspect the soles and treads of your shoes regularly and remove any foreign objects that become embedded in them.

Slips, Trips and Falls in Construction Environments: How to Fall "Properly" and First Aid

  • How controlling your body as you fall can reduce your chances of being injured.
  • What you should do and not do with your body in order to fall "properly".
  • The basic first aid that you can provide to a coworker who has fallen.
  • The types and conditions of fall-related injuries that require calling for emergency medical assistance.