Safety: Operator Training Program

When I was responsible for the training of safety in the workplace in a Westvaco plant, I have developed training programs for professionals who not only understood the instructions on how to work safely, but also, all the instructions on how to do the job or to work the machine.

The resulting safety instructions in the workplace has become a widely used document instead of just watching the first card of a safety audit. Or the one you pull out when someone gets hurt.

Making the program of operator training for operators, they have no fear for the safety training and actually paid attention. We based our safety and operator training program on the assumption that our players wanted to do a good job and go home with the same number of fingers and toes that have arrived at work.

The documentation of the process of security for our distillation system, the operating limits for the safety system have been written directly into standard operating procedures. In this way, operators have had to refer to a separate document, if they needed to know to what extent could push a process to compensate for some variables.

At the time we wrote these documents, this approach was considered unorthodox and it was hard to get it accepted by the auditors before. Once people realized the value of this type of training program for security professionals, our process of becoming a model for others to follow .......