1. Establish and maintain an educational training program which shall, at a minimum:
• Provide all new employees with a general safety orientation containing information common to all employees before they begin working.
• Provide job or task-specific safety training appropriate for employees before they perform that job or task without direct supervision.
• Offer regular refresher safety training.
• Provide a system for employee safety awareness and appreciation through tools such as newsletters, periodic safety meetings, posters, and safety incentive programs etc.
• Provide periodic self-inspection for hazard assessment when the safety program is implemented, new worksites are established, and thereafter as is appropriate to the business operation, but at least annually that:
• Identify hazards and unsafe work practices or conditions;
• Identify corrective actions needed; and
• Document corrective action taken.
• Document performance of the above activities.
2. Employers with more than five employees must also:
• Assign specific safety responsibilities and safety performance accountability.
• Investigate accidents and take corrective action on all work-related incidents, injuries, illnesses and known unsafe work conditions or practices.
• Maintain a safety committee that includes:
• Employee and employer representatives and hold regularly scheduled meetings, at least once every four months.
• Employee membership volunteers or members elected by their peers.
• Safety committee activities that assist the employer in fact finding.
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