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Box
425619, Denton, Texas 76204
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Frame, Denton, Texas 76201
Phone:
940/898-2924
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Purpose
The effectiveness of an employee safety and health program is measured by safe and competent job performance. The education and training program for safety and health is designed to address potential dangers and hazards that employees are likely to encounter when performing their jobs. To assure that employees are properly trained, supervisors must know how to train an employee to perform the essential duties and tasks in the most efficient, safest manner possible. Supervisors and employees must also know how to detect and control hazards, and handle emergency situations. (SORM 2003)
Types of Training
- Supervisor Skills Training - It is essential that supervisors be trained in supervisory skills that include Texas Workers Compensation Commission (TWCC) protocols which are then applied to supervising for safety. This type of training is usually available through the agency's human resources staff development function.
- Safety Training of Additional Duty Safety Officer (ADSO) – Specialized training in an orientation style will be conducted for ADSOs in the Fall Semester of each year. ADSOs may have to provide certain types of training for co-workers.
- Specialized Training - A supervisor who is responsible for specialized work activities may be required to provide specialized training. An analysis of the job description’s exposure to potentially hazardous situations and conditions should be conducted and training developed for such specialized needs such as first aid or CPR training.
- Train-the-Trainer Program - The "Train-the-Trainer" program is a formal training program in which ADSOs, and/or supervisors are taught how to prepare and present formal instruction for safety training requirements.
Employee Safety and Health Training
- New Employee Orientation Training - New employees should receive an initial new employee safety and health orientation training.
- Job-Related Training - When an employee is transferred into a new workgroup or department and is assigned new job duties, specific job instruction training should take place. Job instruction training should incorporate safety concepts into task training. The employer should show that the employee is able to perform a task safely before being allowed to perform the task without supervision. Refresher training at regular intervals is also required.
- Remedial Training - If it becomes evident that additional training is necessary, remedial training should be coordinated by the supervisor. For example, an increase in the number of employee back injuries while an employees are lifting trash may indicate a need for employee remedial safety training.
- Safety Meetings - Safety meetings are specifically designed to provide quick, concise and focused presentation of safety and health related subjects to employees. Additional Duty Safety Officers and/or supervisors may perform periodic safety training during regular staff meetings.
Administering the Training Program
The following items have been demonstrated to be successful in developing and implementing safety and health training programs, and may be incorporated into TWU’s safety training program:
- Lesson plans for each period of instruction;
- Appropriate tests of comprehension to document the degree of learning;
- Dated attendance roster signed by all training attendees;
- Training records maintained in a central area of the agency;
- Procedures to explain responsibilities for training; and
- Recordkeeping procedures to comply with appropriate regulatory requirements.
Mandatory
Training of All Employees:
Hazardous
Communications Act
Specialized
Training Requirements:
Training
requirements for individuals in specialized fields i.e., the Physical Plant
employees, will receive specific training according to their position descriptions
and tasks involved to do their job safely. Some specialized areas include, but
is not limited to:
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OSHA
Required
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Control
of Hazardous Energy
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Universal
Precautions
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Office
Safety
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CPR
and First Aid
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Laboratory
Safety
It is the
responsibility of the supervisor to analyze each position description in their
area of responsibility and record specialized training requirements. Training
requirements are part of the department or service area's Standard Operating
Procedures.
NEW EMPLOYEE SAFETY ORIENTATION
New employees are initially introduced to the Safety and Health program at Texas Woman’s University during the initial orientation to the workplace. The intent of this training is to promote higher sense of awareness to personal safety.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory initial training for all employees who may work with or supervise other employees.
ADDITIONAL DUTY SAFETY OFFICER TRAINING
The intent of the annual seminar is to communicate to employees the overall content of a safety program and provide a consistent set of instructions and expectations for safe behavior using recognized safety procedures, standards, policies, and regulations.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual training for all persons designated as ADSO.
ASBESTOS AWARENESS
Asbestos may be present in building materials installed prior to 1981. Employees receiving Asbestos Awareness Training are not permitted to work with asbestos, but may work in areas where asbestos containing materials are present.
The intent of this training is to promote annual awareness of where Asbestos Containing Material (ACM) might be present, the consequences (to both self and building occupants) of disturbing ACM, and proper work practices to minimize exposure when working near it.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory training is for all custodial staff, maintenance workers, housing, public safety and any other interested employees who works in and around areas with ACM.
BACK INJURY PREVENTION
Using incorrect lifting techniques can result in a variety of injuries. The importance of good physical conditioning cannot be overestimated. Back pain and injuries related to lifting and material handling are some of the most frequent types of injuries on the job. While some factors that contribute to the potential for injury cannot be controlled, others can be reduced or minimized. This training session covers many of the causes of back pain and measures that can be taken to prevent it.
Who Should Attend?
All appropriate supervisors must receive initial and refresher training to recognize work habits and conditions that could result in back injuries to workers. All employees whose jobs require them routinely lift, push, pull, and carry up to a specified weight category materials or equipment and employees that have jobs with the greatest potential for back injuries.
BLOODBORN PATHOGENS STANDARD
Any person who handles blood or certain other body fluids on the job, or whose job responsibilities include activities that might expose them to such body fluids is required to receive training and understand the potential hazards of such exposure. This training is provided by EHS and the Student Health Services and is to be provided before initial exposure on the job, when job tasks or exposure changes, and at least annually.
This training session covers an explanation of the Standard, epidemiology and transmission of bloodborne pathogens, appropriate work practices and measures to control exposure, offer of hepatitis B vaccination, and the signs and labels used to indicate potentially infectious materials.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual training for all employees, who are first responders to injury and/or illness incidents; investigators in laboratories working with or exposed to blood or other bodily fluids, blood components, or any unfixed human tissue ; and other employees whose job responsibilities include activities that might expose them to such materials.
CHEMICAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE (HAZWOPER)-AWARENESS LEVEL TRAINING
This training is for employees who are likely to witness or discover an incident involving hazardous materials (such as a minor chemical spill or leak), but are not expected to be involved in actual clean-up. Topics include a review of Hazard Communication Standard training, recognition and identification of hazardous substances in an emergency, and how and when to notify appropriate authorities with this information.
Who Should Attend?
Recommended training for persons working in high chemical substance buildings.
CONFINED SPACE ENTRY
This training session covers the identification of and hazards associated with confined spaces. Training includes a discussion of the OSHA Confined Space Standard; selection and use of protective materials and equipment; the duties of the confined space entrant, attendant and entry supervisor.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual trainingfor all employees who may work in, or supervise entry into, confined spaces.
ELECTRICAL SAFETY
This training session covers basic information about electricity and the hazards of electrical shock, including methods to prevent electrical hazards.
Who Should Attend?
This course is recommended for employees and students who work with electrical equipment particularly in a laboratory or housing environment. Individuals who work on or near exposed energized electrical circuits operating at 50 volts or less to ground is encouraged to attend.
ELEVATOR EMERGENCY REPONSE
It is necessary to take action when a person is trapped in an elevator or when a condition exist with an elevator which could lead to personal injury. The training guideline will cover basic emergency actions, routine maintenance and a hands-on demonstration of a routine evacuation rescue.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual training of all employees that are designated as elevator emergency response personnel. Only trained personnel are authorized to evacuate persons from elevators.
EMERGENCY PLANNING
A wide variety of disaster scenarios potentially pose a threat to the citizens of Texas on any given day. Tornadoes, flash floods, hurricanes, chemical spills, and even terrorist activities are a few of the natural or man-made calamities that demand consideration and organized response capabilities.
The purpose for this course is to give the designated employee and all other interested employees an opportunity to explore what their responsibility is to responding to an emergency. This course will describe potential threats and will define and direct the safety effort. We will cover all major safety threat issues on a topic-by-topic basis.
Who Should Attend?
All supervisory employees are recommended to attend.
FALL PROTECTION
When work is performed on elevated surfaces such as roofs, or during construction activities, protection against falls frequently must be considered. Fall arresting systems, which include lifelines, body harnesses, and other associated equipment, are often used when fall hazards cannot be controlled by railings, floors, nets, and other means. These systems are designed to stop a free fall of up to six feet while limiting the forces imposed on the wearer.
This training session covers the hazards associated with falling, the identification of fall hazards, and the use of fall protection systems. The requirements of OSHA’s Fall Protection Standard are also discussed.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual training for all employees and supervisors who may work on elevated surfaces that are six feet or higher than their surroundings.
FIRE SAFETY
Fire extinguishers, sprinkler systems, extinguishing systems of various types and sizes are provided in all University buildings for emergency use only. All employees and students must evacuate the building in case of fire or sounding of a fire alarm. Any employees who wish to use extinguishers, activate a pull station on incipient stage fires may do so only if they have been trained. This training includes a video and hands-on demonstration if fire extinguishes and emergency evacuation procedures.
Who Should Attend
Mandatory annual training for housing and public safety employees and encouraged for any other employee who are interested in learning how to use fire extinguishers and emergency evacuation.
FORKLIFT SAFETY
This training session covers the identification and control of hazards associated with the use and operation of forklifts and other powered industrial trucks. A discussion of OSHA’s Powered Industrial Truck standard is included.
Who Should Attend?
Initial training is mandatory for all employees who operate forklifts or other powered industrial trucks. Operators must also complete refresher training every three years. Recommended for supervisors of forklift operators.
HAZARD COMMUNICATINS TRAIN -THE -TRAINER
All employees must receive training to become knowledgeable about the potential hazards of the chemicals they use and how to properly handle workplace chemicals. This session provides general information about working with chemicals which leads to a more specific training session that must be provided by the supervisor/ADSO in the department in which each employee works. In this session, we will discuss the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, different sources of chemical safety information available to employees and students, and how to “decode” and use the information found in material safety data sheets (MSDSs).
The session also includes an overview of the potential health and physical hazards of chemicals, how to use personal protective equipment, first aid for chemical exposures, handling flammable liquids and compressed gases, incidental spill cleanup and hazardous waste disposal.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory initial training for Hazard Communications Trainers and mandatory annual training to all employees
HOUSING DEPARTMENT HOUSKEEPING STAFF (SUMMER TRAINING)
This training is designed to provide housekeeping employees of the Housing Office with an overview of environmental health and safety issues as they relate to cleaning and maintenance work in the residential buildings on campus. Housekeeping staff will gain a basic appreciation of the safety issues most frequently encountered in the course of their work.
Topics covered during this training session include materials handling, electrical safety, personal protective equipment, asbestos awareness, hazard communications, fire safety and bloodborne pathogens.
Who should attend?
Mandatory for all housekeeping staff of the Housing Department during the summer session.
LABORATORY SAFETY
Any person who works in a laboratory must receive training to become knowledgeable about potential hazards in the laboratory. Laboratory workers must attend a more specific training from their department and/or supervisor.
This training session covers the elements for the OSHA Laboratory Standard, references and resources; material safety data sheets (MSDS), personal protective equipment, fume hoods, chemical waste disposal, and compressed air.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual training for employees and students working in chemical laboratories. Recommended for support staff working in and around chemical laboratories.
LOCKOUT/TAGOUT
This training session covers the requirements for lockout/tagout during servicing and maintenance of machines or equipment. Topics reviewed include the requirements of the OSHA Lockout/Tagout standard, procedures for the application of locks and tags, and a discussion of the types of energy lockout/tagout is designed to control.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual trainingfor employees who have been issued Lockout/Tagout equipment and perform service or maintenance on machines and equipment and their supervisors.
MANAGING STRESS
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines job stress as the harmful physical and emotional responses that can occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. The purpose of the course is to give the individual in the workplace an introduction to the knowledge necessary to recognize and manage stress in everyday work situations.
Who should attend?
All persons intersted in recognizing and manageing stress in the workplace.
NOISE AND HEARING CONSERVATION
Exposure to loud and prolonged noise can damage hearing. Employees who are exposed to a time weighted average (sound levels averaged over an 8 hour day) of 85 decibels (dB) or more must be included in the Texas Woman's University Hearing Conservation Program, in accordance with the federal OSHA Noise Standard. Employees in this program must attend training and have their hearing tested by Occupational Medical specialist annually.
There may be noise sources at the University which do not pose a health hazard, but are nonetheless a source of annoyance. While the Safety Office may take measurements or provide other consultative services in these instances, it is not the purpose of the Hearing Conservation Program to deal with such situations.
All employees and students working in high noise areas must receive training annually, per the OSHA Noise Standard. This training session includes an overview of noise and its measurement, health hazards of noise, permissible noise levels, monitoring, audiometric testing, hearing protection, recordkeeping, and sources of noise.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual training for employees who are exposed to noise levels in excess of an 8hr time weighted average of 85 decibels.
OFFICE SAFETY
Office safety is an effort to apply safety and health guidelines to the office environment in an ttempt to reduce or eliminate the hazards associated with office workers. Course can refer to a number of different areas of the workplace, such as hazardous material, workplace violence, emergency procedures, slip, trips and falls.
Who should attend?
Recommended training for all employees who work in an office setting.
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
Personal protective equipment includes all types of equipment used to increase individual safety while performing potentially hazardous tasks. This may include safety glasses, hard hats, gloves, lab coats, respirators or any equipment used to protect against injury or illness. This session covers the selection, care, and use of personal protective equipment.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual training for all employees who use any type of personal protective equipment.
RESPIRATORY PROTECTION
Self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and other air purifying equipment offer respiratory protection for environments where there is oxygen-deficiency or contaminated air. This may include the concentration of air contaminants that may be a known, unknown or in immediately dangerous to life and health (IDLH) environment.
Topics reviewed in this session include an overview of the OSHA Respiratory Protection standard, respirator protection factors, proper use and care of a respirator and cartridges, respirator inspection and maintenance, and respirator limitations.
Who Should Attend?
Mandatory annual attendance for all employees who are expected to use SCBA or air purifying respirators.
SAFETY FOR THE SUPERVISOR
The purpose for this course is to give the supervisor an opportunity to explore what their responsibility is to safety in the workplace. This course will describe and support the overall safety program and will define and direct the safety effort. We will cover all major safety issues on a topic-by-topic basis.
Who Should Attend?
All supervisory employees are recommended to attend.
SLIPS, TRIPS, AND FALLS
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, slip, trips and falls in private industry accounted for more that 20 percent of all nonfatal occupational injuries involving days away from work. The purpose of this course is to give individuals the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and reduce their risk of slips, trips, and falls.
Who should attend?
All employees interested in techniques to avoid the most costly cause of injuries.
STANDARD FIRST AID/CHILDCPR/AED (Community invited to take courses)
Dress comfortably and learn American Red Cross training that will help you prevent and identify non-life and life threatening emergencies and introduce the AED concept to the Adult CPR and First Aid Course. Infant and Child course is also available.
There is a cost per session.
IDT, Check, Money Order all made to TWU.
Who should attend?
Mandatory annual training for all employees that are in direct care of children or other required personnel that have AEDs in the workplace. Course is open to faculty, staff, students and the local community.
WORKSTATION ERGONOMICS
Anyone who uses a computer 2 hours or more per day may experience pain or discomfort in the hands, wrists, elbows, shoulders, neck or back. This session includes a discussion of the various health effects, their causes, and prevention methods. All elements of the computer workstation are discussed including furniture, keyboards, mouse, monitor position, accessories, and lighting, as well as exercises to help relieve discomfort.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone who uses a computer 2 hours or more per day, and managers and supervisors of computer operators and students are recommended to attend annually.
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
Workplace Violence claim thousands of victims each year. We will explain to employees and managers alike, how to recognize and avoid potentially violent and dangerous situations.
Who should attend?
All persons interested in recognizing situations that could lead to potentially violent outcomes.
Please
contact Vicki Byrd at 81-2924 or e-mail the Safety Office to register for any of these courses.
Courses are announced
EACH semester by the Safety Office through campus mail or e-mail.
ADSOs are encouraged
to communicate the courses available to their co-workers.
(Please
note that courses will vary by semester. More will be added and some will be
cycled out.)
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