Small Business Safety and Health Management

Course Outline

Safety and health administration is very important to small business. Experts estimate that workplace injuries and illnesses cost U.S. businesses more than $125 billion annually. Effective job safety and health programs not only help reduce worker injuries and illnesses, they save employers money in the long run. This course is based entirely on the OSHA Small Business Handbook published by the U.S. Department of Labor. This handbook helps small business employers meet the legal requirements imposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and achieve an in-compliance status before an OSHA inspection. Although the guidelines are technically written for small businesses, the basic principles of establishing a reliable safety and health program described in this publication can be applied to businesses on other scales as well. This course includes a multiple-choice quiz at the end, which is designed to enhance the understanding of course materials.

Learning Objective

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

• How to develop a good safety and health management system;
• How to conduct safety and health recordkeeping to better control the operations;
• How to use the Self-Inspection Checklists to gather specific facts about the workplace; and
• Who can provide additional assistance in safety and health for small businesses.

Course Content

In this course, you are required to study the following documents:

OSHA Small Business Safety and Health Management (56 pages, PDF file. File size: 587 KB).

Please click on the underlined hypertext above to view, download or print the document for your study. Because of the large file size, we recommend that you first save the file to your computer by right-clicking the mouse and choosing "Save Target As ...", and then open the file in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Course Summary

Safety and health administration is very important to small business. Effective job safety and health programs not only help reduce worker injuries and illnesses, they save employers money in the long run. These basic principles of establishing a reliable safety and health program covered in this course can be applied to businesses on other scales as well to gain a sustainable competitive advantage for business.

Related Links

For additional technical information related to this subject, please visit the following web pages:

OSHA Small Business On-site Consultation
Q & A's for Small Business Employers

Quiz

Once you finish studying the above course content, you need to take a quiz to obtain the PDH credits.

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