Training Plan Project: OSHA Standards

Explores various training requirements specified by safety and health standard-setting organizations. This course also includes consideration of training theory and training management techniques to include an evaluation of best practices.

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Course Textbook

Haight, J. M. (Ed.). (2012). Hazard prevention through effective safety and health training. Des Plaines, IL: American Society of Safety Engineers.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. Explain safety and health training requirements specified by standard setting organizations.
2. Examine safety and health training theories and their applications.
3. Develop strategies for communicating safety and health training in the workplace.
4. Discuss management’s role in safety and health training.
5. Examine methods for assessing safety and health training performance.
6. Evaluate best practices in safety and health training.
7. Discuss means of overcoming cultural and language barriers to provide effective training to workers.

Upon completion of this course, the students will earn three (3) hours of college credit.

1. Study Guide: Each unit contains a Study Guide that provides students with the learning outcomes, unit lesson, required reading assignments, and supplemental resources.
2. Learning Outcomes: Each unit contains Learning Outcomes that specify the measurable skills and knowledge students should gain upon completion of the unit.
3. Unit Lesson: Each unit contains a Unit Lesson, which discusses lesson material.
4. Reading Assignments: Each unit contains Reading Assignments from one or more chapters from the textbook and/or outside resources.
5. Suggested Reading: Suggested Readings are listed in each unit’s study guide. Students are encouraged to read the resources listed if the opportunity arises, but they will not be tested on their knowledge of the Suggested Readings.
6. Learning Activities (Non-Graded): These non-graded Learning Activities are provided to aid students in their course of study.
7. Unit Assessments: This course contains eight Unit Assessments, one to be completed at the end of each unit. Assessments are composed of written-response questions.
8. Unit Assignments: Students are required to submit for grading Unit Assignments in Units I, II, and IV-VII. Specific information and instructions regarding these assignments are provided below. Grading rubrics are included with each assignment. Specific information about accessing these rubrics is provided below.
9. Ask the Professor: This communication forum provides you with an opportunity to ask your professor general or course content related questions.
10. Student Break Room: This communication forum allows for casual conversation with your classmates.

CSU Online Library

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Librarians can help you develop your research plan or assist you in finding relevant, appropriate, and timely information. Reference requests can include customized keyword search strategies, links to articles, database help, and other services.

Click here for the LibGuide for this course.

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Unit Assignments

Unit I Assignment

Training Plan Project: OSHA Standards

This assignment involves reading a case and then helping an organization by identifying the training needs to meet Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements. By successfully completing this assignment, you should be able to explain safety and health training requirements specified by standard setting organizations. In this case, the standard setting organization is OSHA.

Click here to access a template that contains the case and a table for you to complete. Follow all of the instructions, save all of your work in the template, and submit it in Blackboard for grading.

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit II Assignment

Training Plan Project: EPA and Other Standards

This assignment involves reviewing Carter’s case and then helping his organization by identifying the training needs to meet regulatory and non-regulatory training requirements. By successfully completing this assignment, you should be able to explain safety and health training requirements specified by OSHA, EPA, and other standard setting organizations.

Click here to access a template that contains the case and a table for you to complete. Follow all of the instructions, save all of your work in the template, and submit it in Blackboard for grading.

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit IV Assignment

Training Plan Project: Training Assessment, Goals, and Objectives

This assignment involves reviewing Carter’s case and then helping his organization by performing a training assessment, writing goals, and writing objectives that follow the CSP format.

Click here to access a template that contains a series of exercises for you to complete. Follow all of the instructions, save all of your work in the template, and submit it in Blackboard for grading.

Infrmation about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit V Assignment

Training Plan Project: The Lesson Plan

This assignment takes the next step toward the training project plan, and you will develop a lesson plan for presenting the topic to the workers.

Click here to access a template that contains a series of exercises for you to complete. Follow all of the instructions, save all of your work in the template, and submit it in Blackboard for grading.

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit VI Assignment

Training Budget Worksheet

In Unit V, we prepared a lesson plan for a safety training topic to be presented to Carter’s employees. In this assignment, we will develop a cost estimate and business case justification for the training.

2. Using the lesson plan you submitted for the Unit V Assignment, estimate the costs for the initial development and implementation of the training (year one). You can use Table 1 on page 92 of the course textbook as a guide, but the final format is up to you. You will not know many of the actual numbers, but you can use information from your own organization or from additional research. The “OSHA Business Case for Safety and Health” webpage is a good place to start your research:
3. Prepare a 200-word paragraph to submit to top management that explains, in business terms, how the cost of the training will benefit the organization.

Save all of your work to one document, and submit it in Blackboard for grading.

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit VII PowerPoint Presentation

In the Unit V Assignment, you developed a lesson plan for a specific training topic and wrote the initial details for a lesson/presentation related to the selected topic. In this assignment, we will create the actual presentation. This assignment provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate the following course learning outcome:

1. Develop strategies for communicating safety and health training in the workplace.

Follow the instructions below, save all of your work in your presentation file, and submit it in Blackboard for grading.

Using PowerPoint or other presentation software, create a complete presentation based on the outline you developed in Exercise 5.4 of the Unit V Assignment. For each slide, include the narration that the speaker will use when making the presentation. You can include the narration in the notes section of each slide, or you can record the narration and add it to the slide (newer versions of PowerPoint have a record narration function). The slides should only display information and graphics that supplement the narration. Be sure to follow best practices for creating presentations. Helpful information on how to construct a successful presentation can be found in the links below:

The following webpage offers best practices for preparing presentations:

The following presentation offers best practices for presentations:

The following video explains how to use basic features in PowerPoint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyOBClOA72w

Your presentation should be a minimum of 15 slides with narration and a maximum of 20 slides. Be sure your name and the course number are included on the first slide. If you do not have presentation software, you can download Open Office for free at https://www.openoffice.org. It contains a presentation module with functions similar to PowerPoint.

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

APA Guidelines

The application of the APA writing style shall be practical, functional, and appropriate to each academic level, with the primary purpose being the documentation (citation) of sources. CSU requires that students use APA style for certain papers and projects. Students should always carefully read and follow assignment directions and review the associated grading rubric when available. Students can find CSU’s Citation Guide by clicking here. This document includes examples and sample papers and provides information on how to contact the CSU Success Center.

Training Plan Project: OSHA Standards