HR Safety Manager Certification

Protect your team with workplace safety in 2022. Learn how to update your program now.

The pandemic forced everyone to maintain workplace safety, with human resources professionals at the center of the effort. Organizational policies, employee demands, and OSHA initiatives have expanded today’s focus on health and wellbeing beyond preventing COVID-19 outbreaks.

For example:

• OSHA recently initiated a National Emphasis Program regarding heat hazards.
• Domestic violence spilling into your workplace is an employer safety issue.
• Incidents with no damage to persons or property require investigation.

You need to update your organization’s safety program and implement current protocols. To help you accomplish this, we are offering an up-to-date certification program covering the laws and best practices:

HR Safety Manager Certification

Webinar 1: The OSHA Act And Employer Obligations

• Safety obligations of employers
• The importance of the General Duty Clause
• Recordkeeping and reporting, including COVID-19
• Employee rights and responsibilities
• State plan interaction
• OSHA whistleblower protections

Webinar 2: Workplace Inspections, Safety Plans, And Investigations

• Safety plans - assessment and development
• OSHA inspection process and procedures
• What can trigger an inspection
• Employer and employee rights during inspections

Webinar 3: Heat Illness, COVID-19, Temporary Employee, And Other Issues

• OSHA’s current National Emphasis Programs
• Rulemaking for occupational heat stress and implications for employers
• Heat illness prevention strategies
• OSHA guidance on mitigating and preventing the spread of COVID-19
• OSHA’s Temporary Workers Initiative
• Employer obligations

Webinar 4: Workplace Violence

• Workplace fatigue, mental distress, and stress
• Workplace violence assessment and planning
• Mental health and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Accommodation conversations with reactive persons

Webinar 5: Workers’ Compensation Interaction With Workplace Safety

• The basics of workers’ compensation coverage
• Navigating the “HR Bermuda Triangle” – ADA, FMLA, and WC
• COVID-19 implications for employer’s workers’ compensation claims
• What to do in the case of an accident