Task Safety Analysis
A Task Safety Analysis (TSA) defines the safety margin for a work task.
This class covers how to understand, prepare, and apply the TSA. Learners gain an understanding of how to uncover the hidden risks within work tasks and how to build safety margins using the hierarchy of controls.
Learning objectives include:
- How to apply the SafeTask® Formula to work tasks
- Three types of work tasks
- Components of a TSA
- How to identify hazards and at-risk behaviors
- How to identify control points for the safety margin
- How to prepare and beta test a TSA
- How to use a TSA during a work task
Duration 3-hours
Task Qualification
Task Qualification verifies a person’s ability to apply a safety margin to a work task. Safety training is one of the most misapplied safety processes. This session covers how to implement high-impact safety training process that results in verifying knowledge and skills to apply safety margins.
Learning objectives include:
- How to apply the SafeTask® Formula to work tasks
- How to develop a safety training matrix
- How to use task safety analyses for instructional design
- How to apply the Tell-Show-Do method
- Task training strategies for authorized persons
- Hazard awareness strategies for affected persons
- How to design a written test and skills checklist
- Strategies for dealing with learning disabilities
Duration 3-hours
Task Monitoring
Once a work task is underway, the frontline people must keep the task steps within the safety margin. This session covers how Task Scans, Spotters, Cross Checks, and Stop Work can keep a work task within the safety margin.
Learning objectives include:
- How to apply the SafeTask® Formula to work tasks
- How to conduct a Task Scan to verify a safety margin
- How to conduct a Safety Minute to give feedback
- How to apply a task safety analysis to a Task Scan
- How to leverage a Spotter to defend the safety margin
- How the Spotter utilizes the task safety analysis
- How to use Cross Checks to verify safety margins
- How to utilize the task safety analysis to design checklists
- How to apply Stop Work when the safety margin is lost
Duration 3 hours
Pre-Task
A Pre-Task reinforces a safety margin just before a work task begins. This session covers how to conduct a Pre-Task using the task safety analysis and work permit for a pre-work evaluation and a safety briefing for the workers. We also cover how to plan Escape from the danger zone if a trigger event occurs.
Learning objectives include:
- How to apply the SafeTask® Formula to work tasks
- How to Pre-Task routine and non-routine work
- How to apply the task safety analysis to Pre-Task
- The four common methods of pre-work evaluation
- The three common methods of safety briefings
- How to design and implement a hazardous work permit
- How plan and rehearse Task Escapes
- How to lead a safety briefing
- Pre-Task strategies for various high-risk tasks
Duration 3 hours
Safety Observations
A Safety Observation evaluates the safety margin during a work task, records safety margin data for trending, and influences the application of the safety margin. A Safety Observation process is essential to get past average safety performance. This session explains how to plan, organize, implement, and sustain a safety observation process.
Learning objectives include:
- How to apply the SafeTask® Supervision to work tasks
- How to observe a task and measure the safety margin applied
- How to design an observation checklist from the task safety analysis
- How to evaluate a safety margin during a live task
- How to set up and track safety margin data
- How to trend safety margin data
- How to improve a safety margin with the hierarchy of controls
- How to link observations with the other SafeTask® Supervision processes
- How to link safety margin data with leading metrics
- How to give feedback during an observation
- How to conduct a safety briefing to review trends
Duration 4 to 6 hours
Shift Routine
An effective Shift Routine lays the foundation for better safety margins, especially for increasing the rate of safety contacts. This session covers how to set up a systematic shift routine for integrating safety into the span of control.
Learning objectives include:
- Explain the concept of operating discipline.
- Identify the indicators of operating discipline.
- Explain an operational span of control.
- Explain the three enemies of the span of control.
- How to apply a Control Tower.
- Explain how a shift routine creates a repeatable flow.
- Identify and explain the ten shift routine skills.
- How to design a shift routine with safety contacts.
- How to monitor simultaneous tasks.
Duration 2 hours