Slips, Trips, & 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 overview of slips, trips, and falls helps reinforce good behaviors for workers on how and where to avoid areas where these hazards can reside.
- 11 Minutes
- English, Spanish
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 – Stairways and Ladders - 1926.1052 Stairways