Knowledge Base

This course covers the following information:

Hazard Recognition: The Need for Hazard Recognition

• The goals of "hazard recognition".
  
• The connection between the number of hazards in the workplace and how many accidents and injuries will occur there.
  
• How the number of workplace accidents and injuries can be reduced by identifying and controlling workplace hazards.
  

Hazard Recognition: Hazardous Conditions and Unsafe Acts

• Various types of “hazardous conditions”.
  
• How “unsafe acts” and hazardous conditions combine to make accidents and injuries more likely.
  
• Why unsafe acts can be "habit-forming".
  
• Hazardous conditions and unsafe acts that may often be overlooked.
  

Hazard Recognition: Identifying Hazards in Advance

• The three major processes that "hazard recognition" uses to identify workplace hazards in advance.
  
• How these hazard recognition procedures work.
  
• What you can do to make these procedures work more effectively.
  

Hazard Recognition: Real-Time Hazard Recognition

• The importance of being able to identify “hazardous conditions” and “unsafe acts” on the job.
  
• Various types of hazardous conditions and unsafe acts to look for.
  
• What to do when you identify a hazardous condition or unsafe act.
  

Hazard Recognition: Investigating Accidents and Near Misses

• The goals and procedures of the "accident investigation" process.
  
• The concept of "root causes" of accidents.
  
• That he "obvious" causes of an accident are not always the real root causes.
  
• How you can help with an accident investigation.