SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING

OSHEP prepares worker-trainers to facilitate health and safety training, conducts public programs, and provides general and site-specific training to employers and local unions. OSHEP partners with labor, business and industry, academia, and government to develop customized safety and health training programs that increase awareness, reduce injuries, and enhance the skills of the workforce.

Worker-to-Worker Training

OSHEP teaches hourly workers to become worker-trainers. Worker-trainers are active members of the workforce who have years of valuable experience and grasp the day-to-day realities of work. After attending an intensive Train-the-Trainer course, worker-trainers have the skills and ability to train other workers on safety and health issues. With detailed learning activities and accompanying factsheets, OSHEP worker-trainers utilize participatory problem-centered training methods. Participants are put to work solving real life problems, building upon their own skills and experience. Instead of learning by listening as expected in most training programs, participants learn by doing. Participants in OSHEP's Train-the-Trainer course improve their communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, adding value to their respective organizations.

Customized Curriculum

OSHEP’s customized training programs are driven by a joint labor-management process that helps to strengthen labor-management relations, and helps to ensure successful implementation and follow-through. Customized training programs involve training worker-trainers, developing site-specific curriculum based the needs of the organization(s), and working with the organization(s) to implement and evaluate the training program. OSHEP's goal is help our partners achieve cost-effective, high quality, and innovative in-house training programs that work for each stakeholder. All learning activities are developed with committee input, reviewed by committee, and tested with workers before implementation.

Implementation and Support

OSHEP partners with organizations implementing Worker-to-Worker Training throughout the entire process to ensure its success. This includes mentoring and supporting worker-trainers, helping to improve the effectiveness of safety and health committees, and evaluating the impact of the program.

Other Services

Training in Other Languages
OSHEP provides health and safety training and customized programs in multiple languages.

Public Programs
Each year OSHEP sponsors a series of public programs that provide participants with information they can bring back and apply at their workplaces. In the past OSHEP has conducted public programs on topics including Bloodborne Pathogens, Emergency Response Preparedness, Motor Vehicle Safety, and Strategic Planning for Safety and Health Committees, and Workplace Violence.

Consultation Services
OSHEP also provides employers and local unions with safety culture assessments, health and safety surveys, on-site demonstration training programs, and referral services.

Demonstration Training Program
OSHEP provides interested employers and local unions with free training demonstration programs. If you would like more information on how to schedule a training demonstration program, please contact Komilla John at (609)989-8289.