Slips, Trips, and Falls Overview
Learning objectives
- Identify physical and behavioral hazards that can lead to slips, trips, and falls.
- Distinguish between the ways both you and your employer are responsible for providing safe work spaces.
- Identify housekeeping practices and personal behaviors that can eliminate/prevent slip, trip, and fall hazards.
- Describe how to fall properly to avoid serious injury and how to respond to a fall injury.
Course overview
This lesson will teach you to identify hazardous workplace conditions and unsafe practices that can lead to slips, trips, and falls and how to prevent incidents through good housekeeping practices, safe behavior, and identification of corrective actions required to eliminate hazardous walking and working surface conditions. You will also learn how to fall properly to avoid serious injury, and how to respond to a fall injury should one occur. This lesson will focus on same-level falls, as opposed to falls from heights.
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
- 11 minutes
- Format: Online Interactive
- English
Course Outline
- Slips, Trips, and Falls Overview
Regulations
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D - Walking-Working Surfaces - 1910.21 Scope and Definitions
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D - Walking-Working Surfaces - 1910.22 General Requirements
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D - Walking-Working Surfaces - 1910.25 Stairways
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D - Walking-Working Surfaces - 1910.28 Duty to have fall protection and falling object protection
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D - Walking-Working Surfaces - 1910.29 Fall protection systems and falling
- 29 CFR 1926 Subpart X n Stairways and Ladders - 1926.1052 Stairways