The General Occupational Health & Safety Induction is a foundational program designed for all new employees, contractors, and visitors. This training serves as the essential entry point into a company’s safety culture, ensuring that everyone on-site understands their legal rights, responsibilities, and the basic protocols required to maintain a zero-harm environment.
What You Will Learn
Rights & Responsibilities: Understanding the “Duty of Care” for both the employer and the employee under health and safety legislation.
Hazard Identification: Learning how to spot physical, chemical, biological, and ergonomic hazards before they cause an incident.
Risk Assessment Basics: The simple steps of identifying a hazard, assessing the risk, and applying the Hierarchy of Controls.
Workplace Signage: A guide to mandatory, warning, prohibition, and emergency information signs.
Incident Reporting: How and why to report “near misses,” accidents, and unsafe conditions immediately.
Emergency Protocols: Familiarization with evacuation routes, assembly points, and the location of first aid stations.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): General rules on the selection, use, and maintenance of basic site PPE.
Key Benefits
Cultural Alignment: Sets a high standard for safety behavior from day one of employment.
Risk Reduction: Lowers the frequency of workplace accidents by ensuring everyone is “safety-aware.”
Legal Compliance: Provides documented evidence that the employer has provided essential safety information to personnel.