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Employee Training The effectiveness of any safety program is directly related to the quality of employee safety training by supervision, a thorough understanding of the hazards related to any job, and the ability to consistently follow safe practices specified in published work rules. A. SUPERVISOR SAFETY TRAINING 1. Each supervisor and management representative is responsible to be familiar with the policies and procedures as they apply to their operations and employees. Ability to do so will enable them to provide employees with an understanding of the safety standards and their jobs. 2. It is mandatory that each supervisor provide the necessary training for their workers in order to help eliminate accidents. 3. Supervision will periodically be provided with safety training in order to upgrade their skills with both job requirements and employee participation in safety. B. EMPLOYEE SAFETY TRAINING It is important that each worker be familiar with the hazards that may exist for the job that they are assigned. The supervisor must insure that their workers are trained and understand the methods of doing each job safely. It will be important that supervisors work with employees to maintain the highest level of quality in their work: the quality of the job and the quality of safety. Employees should be encouraged to assist in identifying hazardous conditions to which they may be exposed. When certain hazards cannot be totally eliminated, the supervisors must ensure that special methods or procedures be adopted to control the hazards or exposures. It is therefore essential that the supervisor utilize the published work rules as a tool to train employees as well as hold employees accountable for safe work performance by: 1. Prior to beginning work, and particularly at the beginning of the shift, each supervisor should identify or define each hazardous task that their workers may encounter. 2. Supervisors should take time to review the work rules for which their employees are responsible and define the correct work procedures for the safe method to accomplish the task. This will enable them to attain a consistent quality of instruction that will instill confidence in the employee in their own skills and capabilities and those of the supervisor. 3. By reviewing with the employee a copy of the work rules after instruction, they will have a ready reference for their review at any time. 4. Upon the completion of any training that the employee may receive, whether upon initial indoctrination or at any other time, the training given must be documented on the EMPLOYEE SAFETY TRAINING RECORD form. The supervisor should also have the employees sign the TRAINING CLASS RECORD Form when classroom training is given. 5. All training should be documented with the name of the employee, type of training received, date, and name of the provider.