EHS Topic: Emergency Planning and Response

Communicating Effectively in Emergencies: What Supervisors Need to Know

Unfortunately, there have been many situations where it has been shown that when an emergency occurred at the workplace employees didn’t get the information they needed to take appropriate action to protect their safety. Important information is often either not communicated effectively or not at all. As a supervisor, your job includes communicating emergency information to your employees. How effectively you communicate could make a big difference to the safety of your employees. This course is designed to help you learn how to communicate effectively in emergencies—whether they occur in the workplace or, like weather emergencies, they take place outside but affect the workplace and employees’ ability to get to work.

Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know

Fires, extreme weather, hazardous chemical spills and releases, acts of terrorism, pandemics, explosions, and active shooter situations. We don’t like to think about disasters happening, but the unfortunate reality is, they do happen―often bringing with them destruction, injuries, and sometimes even death. While we know we can’t stop many of these disasters from happening, there are steps you can take to both help prevent some of them and reduce the catastrophic results of others.

This course is for all employees and provides the information you need to successfully plan for and respond to disasters.

Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)

Fires, extreme weather, hazardous chemical spills and releases, acts of terrorism, pandemics, explosions, and active shooter situations. We don’t like to think about disasters happening, but the unfortunate reality is, they do happen―often bringing with them destruction, injuries, and sometimes even death. While we know we can’t stop many of these disasters from happening, there are steps you can take to both help prevent some of them and reduce the catastrophic results of others.

This course is for all employees and provides the information you need to successfully plan for and respond to disasters.

Incendios, condiciones climáticas extremas, derrames y liberaciones de sustancias químicas peligrosas, actos de terrorismo, pandemias, explosiones y situaciones de tirador activo. No nos gusta pensar en la posibilidad de desastres, pero la desafortunada realidad es que sí ocurren, y muchas veces traen consigo destrucción, lesiones, e incluso la muerte. Aunque sabemos que no podemos evitar que muchos de estos desastres ocurran, hay medidas que puede tomar tanto para ayudar a prevenir algunos de ellos como para reducir los resultados catastróficos de otros.

Este curso es para todos los empleados y proporciona la información que necesita para planificar y responder exitosamente a los desastres.

Disaster Planning: What Supervisors Need to Know

It’s essential for supervisors to know how to properly plan for responding to workplace disasters and other emergencies in order to prevent employee injuries, minimize property damage, and minimize the disruption of business operations.

This course focuses on the information supervisors need to carry out their duties under their facility’s emergency action plan, or EAP, and examine key issues such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, requirements; emergency evacuation procedures; employee training; and emergency response assignments.