This lesson will teach you to identify hazardous workplace conditions and unsafe practices that can lead to slips, trips, and falls and how to prevent incidents through good housekeeping practices, safe behavior, and identification of corrective actions required to eliminate hazardous walking and working surface conditions. You will also learn how to fall properly to avoid serious injury, and how to respond to a fall injury should one occur. This lesson will focus on same-level falls, as opposed to falls from heights.

Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Identify physical and behavioral hazards that can lead to slips, trips, and falls.
• Distinguish between the ways both you and your employer are responsible for providing safe work spaces.
• Identify housekeeping practices and personal behaviors that can eliminate/prevent slip, trip, and fall hazards.
• Explain how to fall properly to avoid serious injury and how to respond to a fall injury.

• Workplace Hazards
• Fall Prevention
• Fall Response

Approximately 30 minutes

Testing conducted throughout this online course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved.

Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available for download and printing.