Injury Reduction for Workers (2 days)

Over the past decades, many utilities and power companies substantially increased purchases of safety equipment, gears, outfits, and tools in an effort to reduce injury rates. However, EPRI data has shown that there is little injury rate reduction in these industries in the past five years. The missing factor is human performance improvement. Good human performance establishes a solid foundation for safety performance, whether in operational or industrial safety. While human performance techniques developed by PII have yielded phenomenal improvements in operational safety, they are often overlooked as a tool to improve industrial safety. This course is the first ever offered by PII based on our innovative research on human performance techniques to prevent injuries. This training course will break through the bottle neck of ineffective methods and offer a new tool for workers to protect themselves.

Benefits of This Course:

Workers are subject to human error traps (such as time pressure, over-confidence inducers, after-lunch-drowsiness, etc.) and get injured. Moreover, there are hidden risks in various routine tasks that are often not recognized. Teaching workers how to cope with human error traps, and how to identify the hidden risks and prevent associated injury, can result in a significant injury rate reduction. PII expects that, together with other companion human performance programs, this course will help reduce injury rates by a factor of 5 to 10 in two to three years.

Topics Covered in This Course:

• Top 10 error traps that cause injuries
• Prevention, detection, and correction of human error traps
• Insufficient layers of Protection (LOPs)
• Job risk identification
• Designing LOP
• Dog bite prevention
• Ladder injury prevention
• Flash-over injury prevention
• Driving accident prevention
• Rigging injury prevention
• Slip/fall injury prevention
• Material handling injury prevention
• Scaffolding injury prevention
• Equipment tagging-related injury prevention