Safety Assessment Training

Assessing the workplace for safety hazards is essential for maintaining a safe and secure work environment for employees. Many companies require their staff to participate in safety assessment training to teach them how to recognize inconspicuous threats that pervade their work sites.

Identification

• Assessing the environment for hazards begins by knowing how to distinguish between safe and unsafe conditions. Safety assessment trainings inform trainees about how to spot hazardous situations, such as exposed wires that could cause a fire or plumbing leaks that could cause slip-and-fall accidents.

Inspection

• Safety assessment training teaches employees to perform inspections of equipment and machinery to make sure they are in safe operating order. Inspections allow workers to assess how safe or unsafe something is by looking at it, as well as testing it. Workers who perform inspections must be trained to properly complete an inspection report.

Significance

• According to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Fatality and Catastrophe Reports Archive, every week workers around the country are injured on the job. Safety assessment training is effective for preventing occupational accidents, injuries and illnesses. Trainings heighten employees' awareness about safety issues in the workplace so that they can make better judgments about the safety precautions they choose to take.