4. EmployeesWorks in accordance with accepted safe practices.Reports unsafe conditions and practices.Observes safety rules and regulations.Serves on Safety Committees.Makes safety suggestionsDoes not undertake jobs he does not understand.Report every injury no matter how small it may be.Use properly the Personal Protective Equipment

provided by the Company.Understand the Company’s safety policy and

appreciate their individual responsibility towards safety, for themselves, for their co-workers, and for the Company.

SAFETY EDUCATION

AND TRAINING

Training is one of the most important responsibilities of management and accordingly, there should be a continuing effort to help our supervisory personnel in carrying out their management function. An effective accident prevention and health hazard control program is based on proper job performance. When people are trained to do their jobs properly, they will do them safely. This means supervisors must:

Know how to train an employee in the safe, proper way of doing a job.

Know how to supervise.

1. Supervisory Safety TrainingThe responsibility of preventing accidents rests on the

front line Supervisor. With this, it is important that the supervisor be given as much education and training assistance on the fundamental concept of accident prevention. The objectives of the supervisory safety training are:

To familiarize them with safety policy of the company and its program.

To emphasize the importance of the supervisor as the key man in the accident prevention program.

To provide supervisors with the knowledge and information regarding accident causes and method of prevention.

Other areas in safety that the supervisor should be familiar with are:

Job Safety Instruction.

Accident Investigation and Reporting.

Personal Protective Equipment. It’s Use, Care and maintenance.

2. Employee TrainingWhile the daily contact with the craftsmen is

regarded as the most effective ways of training an employee, pre-deployment indoctrination, safety meeting and pre-job safety instructions are among the many effective means that can be employed in training an employee/craft on safety.

New employee/worker prior to deployment passes through a safety induction program given by the Safety Department where the following subjects are discussed:

 Company Safety Program

Individual Responsibilities towards Safety

General Safety Rules and Regulations

Personal Protective Equipment. It’s Use, Care and Maintenance

Company’s interest in Safety

The employee’s first day on the job whether he is a transferee or newly hired is required to attend a safety orientation to be conducted by the Safety Engineer and the worker’s immediate supervisor. The following topics to be discussed are:

Existing Job Condition and Hazards

Safety Rules and Practices

Plant Safety Record

3. Specialized Safety Training

In line with its continuing education program, the Safety Department will hold training in collaboration with training agencies/specialist for members of supervision where the following courses are offered:

a. Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational safety and health is an area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The goals of occupational safety and health programs include to foster a safe and healthy work environment. OSH may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, and many others who might be affected by the workplace environment.

Occupational safety and health can be important for moral, legal, and financial reasons. All organisations have a duty of care to ensure that employees and any other person who may be affected by the companies undertaking remain safe at all times. Moral obligations would involve the protection of employee's lives and health. Legal reasons for OSH practices relate to the preventative, punitive and compensatory effects of laws that protect worker's safety and health. OSH can also reduce employee injury and illness related costs, including medical care, sick leave and disability benefit costs.

b. Supervisors Safety Development ProgramThe new Supervisors’ Safety Development Program

(SSDP) trains supervisors and managers to incorporate best safety practices into their daily management activities. A key feature of the program requires participants to demonstrate they have acquired the knowledge and skills from training and are prepared to implement them in the workplace.

Supervisors’ Safety Development Program (SSDP) has replaced the former Supervisors’ Development Program (SDP), which is no longer available.

Training goals:

To equip supervisors and managers with the knowledge, leadership skills and methods to apply safety as part of their responsibilities and become effective safety leaders and advocates.

Who should attend?

New supervisors and managersExperienced supervisors and managers

seeking refresher training or additional education

What you'll learn:

Supervisors and managers learn how to incorporate safety and health into their daily management process. Key learning include:

How to confidently address critical safety and health issues

How to enhance safety responsibilities and safety management systems, including safety inspections, incident investigations, safety meetings and employee engagement.

Identification and control of hazards, incident prevention, OSHA compliance, and continuous improvement in all areas of safety and health.

How to promote a positive safety culture.Learning to support workers with on-going safety

training, on-the-job training and promoting safe behaviour.

c. Fire Brigade Training

Fire Brigade Training will discuss the different elements of the fire safety program and will help participants identify potential fire hazards and how to inspect for fire hazards. This will also discuss the different elements of fire, the chemistry of fire and the methods to extinguish a fire when it happens, including the different fire fighting techniques and equipment used in fire fighting.

OBJECTIVES:

Fire Brigade Training will enable participants to:

• Identify potential fire hazards and secure them to prevent the inception of fire;• Familiarize with fire fighting tools and equipment and how to use them;• Learn the different fire fighting techniques;• Develop a Fire Safety Program

Contents of a Fire Brigade TrainingChemistry of FireClasses of FireStages of CombustionFire Fighting EquipmentFire ExtinguisherEscape Breathing Apparatus (EBA) or Self-Contained

Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)LadderFire HoseRopesFire Brigade OrganizationRescue OperationForcible EntryActual Fire Fighting Using Fire Extinguisher and Fire Hose

d. Defensive Driving CourseDefensive driving is said to be "driving to save

lives, time, and money, in spite of the conditions around you and the actions of others." This definition is taken from the National Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course. It is a form of training for motor vehicle drivers that goes beyond mastery of the rules of the road and the basic mechanics of driving. Its aim is to reduce the risk of collision by anticipating dangerous situations, despite adverse conditions or the mistakes of others. This can be achieved through adherence to a variety of general rules, as well as the practice of specific driving techniques.

e. First Aid/CPRFirst aid is the provision of initial care for

an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert, but trained personnel to a sick or injured person until definitive medical treatment can be accessed. Certain self-limiting illnesses or minor injuries may not require further medical care past the first aid intervention. It generally consists of a series of simple and in some cases, potentially life-saving techniques that an individual can be trained to perform with minimal equipment.

While first aid can also be performed on all animals, the term generally refers to care of human patients.

f. Tag and Lockout ProcedureLockout-tagout (LOTO) or lock and tag is a

safety procedure which is used in industry and research settings to ensure that dangerous machines are properly shut off and not started up again prior to the completion of maintenance or servicing work. It requires that hazardous power sources be "isolated and rendered inoperative" before any repair procedure is started. "Lock and tag" works in conjunction with a lock usually locking the device or the power source with the hasp, and placing it in such a position that no hazardous power sources can be turned on. The procedure requires that a tag be affixed to the locked device indicating that it should not be turned on.

g. Hot Work Permit

A Hot Work Permit is a legal document giving official permission to do Hot Work. Hot work is any process that can be a source of ignition when flammable material is present or can be a fire hazard regardless of the presence of flammable material in the workplace. Common hot work processes are welding, soldering, cutting and brazing. When flammable materials are present processes such as grinding and drilling become hot work processes.

h. Personal Protective EquipmentPersonal Protective Equipment (PPE) refers

to protective clothing, helmets,  goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury. The hazards addressed by protective equipment include physical, electrical, heat, chemicals, biohazards, and airborne particulate matter. Protective equipment may be worn for job-related occupational safety and health purposes, as well as for sports and other recreational activities. "Protective clothing" is applied to traditional categories of clothing, and "protective gear" applies to items such as pads, guards, shields, or masks, and others.

The purpose of personal protective equipment is to reduce employee exposure to hazards when engineering and administrative controls are not feasible or effective to reduce these risks to acceptable levels. PPE is needed when there are hazards present. PPE has the serious limitation that it does not eliminate the hazard at source and may result in employees being exposed to the hazard if the equipment fails.