Requirements and Recommendations

Provide each new employee with a general safety orientation containing information common to all employees and appropriate to the business operations, before they begin their regular job duties.

RECOMMENDATIONS: The orientation should contain both oral and written instruction and include, but not be limited to, information on:

• accident & hazard reporting procedures
• emergency procedures
• fire safety
• first aid
• personal protective equipment
• work site hazards

Provide job or task-specific safety training appropriate for employees before they perform that job or task without direct supervision.

RECOMMENDATIONS: The training should:

• Include specific safety rules, procedures and hazards
• Identify the employer's and employee's responsibilities regarding safety in the workplace
• Be conducted by personnel knowledgeable of the task being trained
• Be conducted when program is established, when employees job assignments change, when new substances are introduced to the workplace, and when a new hazard is identified

RECOMMENDATIONS: The training should:

• Be held as is appropriate, but at least annually
• Contain material to maintain and expand knowledge and awareness of safety issues in the workplace

Provide periodic self-inspection for hazard assessment when the safety program is implemented, new worksites are established, and thereafter as is appropriate to the business operations, but at least annually, which:

• Identifies hazards and unsafe work practices or conditions
• Identifies corrective actions needed; and
• Documents corrective action taken

Include documentation of performance of activities listed in (1) through (5) above. This documentation must be kept by the employer for three years.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Documentation should include:

• Date, time, location and description of training, inspections, and corrective actions
• List of participants, i.e. inspectors, trainers, participants