Small and medium sized business owners have a daunting responsibility of learning compliance guidelines from agencies like the EPA, state, local, and federal OSHA. If you have workers, then you have a federal requirements to protect them from injury and illness. There are real consequences to not following the OSHA regulations including fines that are public records. Safety and Health regulations are only a minimum component for an organization to protect workers.
The corporate safety and health coordinator is entrusted in making sure that the workers are compliant with safety and health regulations and keeping workers safe. This course will help the compliance officer get a comprehensive view of OSHA compliance to keep business on the right side of safety laws.
Learning Objectives:
Understand Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations for small and medium businesses
Determine how to locate the North American Industry Classification code
Learn how to locate the most frequently cited standard for your industry
Discover the resources available for regulatory compliance
Obtain the knowledge of how to find OSHA regulations that pertain to your industry
Learn to forecast upcoming regulations
Explore data and statistics related to injury and illness records
Learn about OSHA enforcement for industries
Understand OSHA Recordkeeping
Your Instructor
Sheldon Primus is a Certified Occupational Safety Specialist with a Masters of Public Administration with a concentration in Environmental Policy. He has been in the environmental and occupational safety field since 1994. Additionally, he is a trainer for the Certified Occupational Safety Specialist program of the Alliance Safety Council-Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sheldon is an authorized OSHA General Industry and Construction trainer for the 10 and 30-hour Outreach program.
Mr. Primus is a guest columnist for the online publications of Treatment Plant Operator (TPO) and WaterOnline. He has written article regarding regulatory compliance, operator safety, and wastewater process control. Additionally, he conducts OSHA compliance webinars for Audio Solutionz, Online Compliance Panel, Compliance Online, Compliance World, Edupliance, and Compliance Key.
Currently, Sheldon is the owner/CEO of OSHA Compliance Help and , an international safety consulting, training, and a regulatory agency compliance assistance company. He has presented safety topics at the Louisiana Governors Safety Expo, Florida Water Resource Conference, Florida Pest Management Association, and the South Florida Chapter of ASSE.
Mr. Primus served as part of the Water Environmental Federation (WEF) Water Sector Safety Committee and the US Department of Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) taskforce on All Hazards Communication training for the Water and Wastewater Sector. Moreover, Sheldon has served as a Subject Matter Expert for Health Safety Institute and Red Vector Learning for General Industry and Construction OSHA courses.