Fall Factors: Understanding and Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls

Falling on the job is the third leading incident causing disability. Being aware of hazards and practicing safe actions on the job helps ensure employee safety in the workplace. With this course, your employees learn how they can contribute to the safety of their workplace and avoid slips, trips and falls.

With this online course, employees understand the different fall factors that lead to injury: balance, gravity, friction, and momentum. Learn how to lookout for slip hazards, and to protect yourself from incidents by wearing proper footwear. This course also discusses how unsafe acts on the job increase the risk for injury.

Slips, trips, and falls account for more than 15 million workplace injuries each year. By watching this training course, employees learn how easy it is to prevent these types of injuries.

   This course is in the Video On Demand format, to read about Video On Demand features click here.

All workers

• Introduction
• Center Of Gravity And Balance
• Fall Factors
• Preventing Falls Resulting From Slips
• Preventing Falls Resulting From Trips
• Unsafe Acts
• Summary

• Fall Protection In Industrial And Construction Environments: Preventing Slips Trips And Falls
• Fall Protection In Industrial And Construction Environments: Edges Openings And Guarding
• Fall Protection In Industrial And Construction Environments: Using Portable And Fixed Ladders