Developing a Safety Procedures Manual

Safety procedures are the backbone of an organization’s Safety Management System. They provide consistency and when followed create a safe working environment and greater productivity due to less injury down time. However, safety procedure writing is more difficult and time consuming than it at first appears. This two-days course will give you the foundation to start writing effective safety procedures.

• Develop a Safety Procedure Template
• Develop a flowchart to accurately depict process activities
• Use brainstorming to gather necessary information for safety procedure creation
• Understand a variety of procedure types (Step-by-Step, Playscript, Decision Tree, Decision Tables)
• Write and revise Step-by-Step safety procedures
• Add communication elements to safety procedures

We will spend the first part of the day getting to know other participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.

Procedures are the set of steps followed in order to fulfill the policies in a safe manner. This session discusses minimum required safety procedures.

Good safety procedures teach employees what they require to be safe in their jobs. This session teaches students guiding principles for writing effective safety procedures and examines a variety of procedures to help in drafting procedure templates.

This session focuses on flowcharts and here students will learn how to construct flowcharts.

It is crucial to have the correct and proper information regarding a process. This session looks at how brainstorming is a good tool for gathering the needed information.

For written procedures to be successful they must be easily understood. This session looks at ways to keep written procedures clear, concise, complete, and correct.

This session discusses aids to communication within a procedure.

Different procedure types are available for creating workplace safety procedures and those models are introduced and discussed in this session.

This session lets students write a safety procedure to have a template that they can bring back to their workplace and apply.

At the end of the course, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan.