The new National Safety Council Supervisors’ Safety Development Program (SSDP) trains supervisors and managers to incorporate best safety practices into their daily management activities. Supervisors will acquire the knowledge, leadership skills, and methods to apply safety as part of their responsibilities and become your most effective safety leaders and advocates.

Program description SSDP includes 16 flexible instructional modules that can be taught in any order. Each module focuses on critical requirements for safety improvement in the workplace and includes discussion of management approaches and regulatory issues that apply. SSDP addresses leadership and management philosophies, empowered employees and self-directed teams, and hazard control and risk reduction, as well as other current ideas in effective practices that help improve and sustain safety performance.

A key feature of the program requires participants to demonstrate they have acquired the knowledge and skills from training and are prepared to implement them in the workplace. Participants can gauge their understanding by answering self-check questions at the end of each module. Facilitators can evaluate learning and retention using each module’s participant exam and a cumulative course exam.

Who Should Attend?

• New Supervisors/managers unfamiliar with safety responsibilities

• Experienced supervisors/managers who want "refresher" safety training or need to develop specialized skills

What Will I learn?

SSDP expands and upgrades previous training programs for supervisors and managers with content incorporating the latest research addressing the practical needs of today’s organizations. SSDP includes 16 interrelated but independent instructional modules that can be taught in any order.

• Safety Management
• Communication
• Safety and Health Training
• Employee Involvement — NEW
• Safety and Health Inspections
• Incident Investigation
• Industrial Hygiene
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Ergonomics
• Hazard Communication
• Regulatory Issues — NEW
• Machine Safeguarding
• Hand Tools and Portable Power Tools
• Materials Handling and Storage
• Electrical Safety
• Fire Safety