Course Overview
This course, comprised of seven instructional modules, provides an understanding of how workplace health and safety programs can be made more impactful and effective by integrating them strategically. Modules 1 through 4 focus on the fundamentals of workplace health and productivity and workplace safety, offering advice on how to create and measure effective health and safety programming. Modules 5, 6 and 7 then offer a roadmap for integrating these programs together for greater impact, including how to create an overarching culture of health and safety. Included is instruction in the use of the Integrated Health and Safety Index, a new tool that helps employers establish, measure and track integrated health and safety programming.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Have a clear understanding of health and productivity management (HPM) and its principal components
- Know the key trends that are advancing the use of HPM in the workplace
- Recognize the impacts of poor health in the workplace
- Know how HPM adds value to an employer, healthcare strategies
- Understand the trends in workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses
- Be able to describe the impact of safety on the workplace
- Recognize representative metrics used for quantifying health and productivity costs
- Characterize the features of available health and productivity measurement tools
- Recognize the role of leading and lagging indicators, key performance indicators (KPIs) and data selection in assessing safety
- Gain an understanding of concepts of the Integrated Health and Safety (IHS) Index