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Safety and health programs, leadership and leading indicators

ASP video lesson, 6:19. ASP Domain 2: Safety Programs and Concepts

OSHA's recommended practices for safety and health programs: management leadership, worker participation, annual evaluation, and how leading and lagging indicators and SMART goals work. ASP exam focus.

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What this lesson covers

In this lesson, you'll learn to: explain the proactive approach and the core program elements, describe what management leadership and worker participation look like, tell leading from lagging indicators and apply the SMART criteria, and state when to evaluate the program and read advisory wording correctly. This guidance recommends a proactive approach to safety and health programs.

  • Intro
  • Learning objectives
  • Proactive program basics
  • Management leadership
  • Worker participation
  • Leading vs lagging
  • Leading indicator examples
  • SMART criteria
  • Program evaluation
  • On the job
  • Common exam traps
  • Recap quiz

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