Webinar recap: 5 ways to reduce your business risk with workplace health & safety programs

Kathleen Collins

This post was created by Kathleen Collins as a followup to her webinar titled, "5 Ways to Reduce Your Business Risk with Workplace Health & Safety Programs. She has nine years of experience in developing and implementing environmental, health, and safety systems, and development of related training programs in a variety of mediums. Kathleen has experience working with Federal and Provincial in legislation in Canada and the U.S. Her work experience is currently working in/with industrial, logistics, construction, medical, service, and clerical/administration industry sectors. Kathleen’s specialty and favourite part of her career is conducting hazards and risk assessments, control solutions and disability management programs.

Summary - 5 Ways to Reduce Your Business Risk with Workplace Health & Safety Programs

Feel free to have a look through the slides, and then be sure to check out Kathleen’s summary below!

5 Ways to Reduce Your Business Risk with Workplace Health & Safety Programs

I just wanted to say thank you to all who attend my webinar on Thursday, June 17th on Workplace Health & Safety: 5 Ways to Reduce Your Risk. This webinar was created because I felt that businesses were commencing integration of health & safety into their business practices and were starting to gain insight into the benefits of implementation. Despite this, there were still too many occupational illness and injuries occurring on a daily basis. In the presentation we looked at the impact globally and nationally. The statistics are still staggering and have a significant impact on human capital performance, as well as the economy. I provided insight about the consequences associated with occupational injuries/illnesses in the workplace. Also discussed was information about the human impact and business impact – alluding to potential risk associated with accidents. We took a look at the structure and components of a Health & Safety Management System and I provided an overview of the components and associated standards that are legislative requirements that should be in place and functional in your business. I highlighted the importance of communicating, educating, and training on the components and standards of your Health & Safety Management System. Training programs should have clear objectives and incorporate adult learning principles. We also took a peek at learning and auditing tools that are available to make compliance training easier through technologies such as elearning (Electronic) and mlearning (Mobile).

Again thanks to those join webinar.

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