INJURY_AND_ILLNESS_PREVENTION_PROGRAM_TEMPLATE.docx

INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM TEMPLATE

MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT/

ASSIGNMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES

The person or persons with the authority and responsibility for your Injury and Illness Prevention Program must be identified and given management’s full support.

This commitment must be backed by strong organizational policies, procedures, incentives, and disciplinary actions as necessary to ensure employee compliance with safe and healthful work practices.

ENSURING EMPLOYEE COMPLIANCE

Include a system for ensuring that employees comply with safe and healthy work practices. Substantial compliance with this provision includes: training and retraining programs, disciplinary actions, or any other such means that ensures employee compliance with safe and healthful work practices.

SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS

Your program must include a system for communicating with employees – in a form readily understandable by all affected employees – on matters relating to occupational safety and health, including provisions designed to encourage employees to inform the employer of hazards at the worksite without fear of reprisal.

PROCEDURES FOR IDENTIFYING

& EVALUATING HAZARDS

Include procedures for identifying and evaluating work place hazards including scheduled periodic inspections to identify unsafe conditions and work practices. Inspections shall be made to identify and evaluate hazards. Wind speed or gusts over 14MPH in standing snags is considered a hazard and work shall stop and continue where snags are not present or the wind is less.

PROCEDURES FOR INVESTIGATING ACCIDENTS

Document the scene, interview witnesses, and complete accident report.

CORRECTIVE ACTIONS

Include methods and/or procedures for correcting unsafe or unhealthy conditions, work practices and work procedures in a timely manner based on the severity of the hazard.

SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING

Provide training and instruction: when project or program is first established, to all new employees, to all employees given new job assignments, whenever new substances, processes, procedures or equipment are introduced to the workplace, whenever the employer is made aware of a new or previously unrecognized hazard, and for supervisors to familiarize themselves with the safety and health hazards to which employees under their immediate direction and control may be exposed.

SYSTEM OF DOCUMENTATION

AND RECORDKEEPING

Records of the steps taken to implement and maintain the IIPP shall include: inspection records, training records, accident investigation reports, reportable accidents, etc.

Job Hazard Analysis is attached as a separate document.