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This course covers the following information:

Slips, Trips and Falls in Food Processing and Handling Environments: Center of Gravity and Maintaining Balance addresses:

  • 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 Food Processing and Handling Environments: Slips, Trips and Falls addresses:

  • 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 Food Processing and Handling Environments: Walking Surfaces addresses:

  • 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 Food Processing and Handling Environments: Housekeeping and Maintenance addresses:

  • 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 Food Processing and Handling Environments: Footwear addresses:

  • 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 Food Processing and Handling Environments: How to Fall "Properly" and First Aid addresses:

  • 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.