OSHA Safety Champion Program Series: Part 2

About this episode

Sheldon Primus discusses OSHA's Safety Champions Program and its core elements for building a strong safety and health system.

In Part 2 of this Safety Champions series, Sheldon Primus moves beyond the introduction and breaks down how OSHA’s Safety Champions Program can help organizations build a stronger, more connected safety and health system. He explains that while SHARP and VPP are designed for organizations already operating at a higher level of safety maturity, the Safety Champions Program is meant to help employers start earlier and build step by step. In this episode, Sheldon walks listeners through OSHA’s seven core elements of a strong safety and health program: management leadership, worker participation, hazard identification and assessment, hazard prevention and control, education and training, program evaluation and improvement, and communication and coordination for host employers, contractors, and staffing agencies. He explains how each element strengthens the overall system and helps move safety from disconnected activities into a more complete safety management approach. He also connects the framework to concepts like ISO 45001, leading and lagging indicators, worker trust, JSAs/JHAs, hierarchy of controls, learning teams, and contractor management, showing how the Safety Champions…

People in this episode

Host: Sheldon Primus

Topics covered

• OSHA Safety Champions Program
• safety management
• safety maturity
• worker participation
• hazard prevention
• program evaluation

Keywords

• safety champions
• OSHA
• safety program
• management leadership
• worker trust
• hazard identification
• safety training

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OSHA, SHARP, VPP, ISO 45001, JSAs/JHAs, Safety Champions Program

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