Introductory briefing is the minimum necessary briefing conducted with all employees hired, regardless of their length of service in this profession, education and position (including business travelers and temporary employees).
Also, this briefing is conducted with students and pupils before starting a field trip or laboratory workshop. Newly recruited employees receive all the necessary knowledge to ensure safety at the workplace. Introductory briefing should be done by a safety engineer. Each employee has the right to work in conditions of safety, cleanliness, lighting and decent pay for his work.
Why is introductory safety training necessary?
Statistics show that 90% of work-related injuries and injuries are due to the carelessness and negligence of the worker. The most important tasks of an employee are knowledge and observance of labor protection rules, including norms of industrial sanitation. In order for the work to be safe and harmless for the employee, an introductory briefing and familiarization with its rules and requirements is required.
Basic list of briefing questions:
- Necessary information about the organization, enterprise or production.
- Features characterizing the production.
- The main provisions of the legislation on labor protection.
- Compensation and benefits.
- The internal labor regulations at work and the distribution of responsibility for violation of the rules and regulations.
- Organization of all necessary measures for labor protection in the workplace and conducting the necessary briefings (including induction briefing).
- Supervision of state and departmental organizations, as well as public attention to the state of labor protection.
- General rules of conduct for employees on the territory of the organization, as well as in production, storage and auxiliary premises.
- Placement of the main work shops, services, warehouses and auxiliary premises.
- The list of harmful and dangerous production factors specific to this production.
- Means and methods of preventing injuries at work, accidents and diseases (professional). The presence of fences, PPE (personal protective equipment), signs, posters and alarms.
- Basic list of requirements for injury prevention.
- The main list of requirements for industrial and personal sanitation. PPE, the order and form of their issuance, terms of wear.
- Causes and circumstances of industrial injuries, explosions, sudden accidents and fires that occurred due to non-compliance with safety regulations. Execution and procedure for the investigation of an accident at the workplace.
- The main methods and methods of preventing explosions, fires and accidents.
- Organization of actions of workers in emergency situations.
- Ways to provide first aid to the victim before the doctors arrive.
Introductory fire training should be given to all employees of the organization in order to prevent fire and fire in the production premises.