TRAINING

WEC provides FREE onsite training. WEC offers quality, interactive training using a participatory methodology that encourages problem-solving and critical thinking to address important health and safety issues in the workplace.

FREE

INTERACTIVE

CUSTOMIZABLE

HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES

  • FREE

  • INTERACTIVE

  • CUSTOMIZABLE

  • HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES

Available Training Topics Include:

NJ COVID-19 Awareness and Prevention

Through the NJ COVID-19 Awareness and Prevention Training, workers, employers and worker representatives will gain knowledge through participatory training sessions to reduce the risks of exposure to COVID in the workplace.

Identifying Safety System Failures

Particiants gain knowledge and skills needed to identify failed systems in their facilities and the importance of a root cause analysis approach to accident investigations.

Hazard Mapping

Participants examine hazards in their industries and learn how to develop a map to identify, locate, and evaluate hazards so they can be targeted for elimination. Click here for a sample curriculum.

Preventing Workplace Violence

Participants examine the underlying causes of workplace violence in healthcare facilities, and analyze their facility’s workplace violence protection program. WEC Systems of SafetyWorkplace Violence Workbook

Safe Work, Safe Care Project

WEC’s Safe Work, Safe Care training helps to create and maintain safe, healthy work environments for workers who provide health services to others. Safe Work Safe Care, 2020-2021

Other Topics Include:

  • Chemical hazards
  • Injury and Illness Prevention
  • Introduction to Hazards of Mold
  • Introduction to OSHA and Whistleblower Protection
  • Mechanical Integrity
  • Media Training for Health and Safety Issues
  • Needlestick Prevention
  • Post-Exposure Procedures
  • Safe Patient Handling
  • Planning for Joint Health & Safety Committes

Don't see your training topic listed?

 WEC can also provide customizable training on other health and safety topics for your workplace.
In some cases, there may be a nominal fee. For more information or to schedule training, please contact Cecelia Gilligan Leto at 609-882-6100, Ext. 308 or [email protected]

FREE Preventing Workplace Hazard training for workers who provide health services
to others is made possible by OSHA's Susan Harwood Training grant program.

All trainings include an introduction to OSHA.

Past Training Programs

Safer After Sandy: Our Safer After Sandy project contains various resources focusing on rebuilding safely.

Injury Illness Prevention Programs: Effective training about Injury and Illness Preventions Programs can help achieve safer, healthier, and more productive workplaces.

Safe Work, Safe Care Project: WEC’s Safe Work, Safe Care training project works to help create and maintain safe, healthy work environments for healthcare workers and patients.

Preventing Chemical Accidents Training Project: WEC’s Preventing Chemical Accidents training project covers key health, safety, and environmental issues in high hazard facilities, such as chemical plants, oil refineries, water treatment plants, and food processing plants, such as OSHA’s Process Safety Management Standard and NJ’s Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act.

Preventing Workplace Violence: Systems of Safety Workbook, Safety Systems Chart, and Hazard Mapping Workbook.

Preventing Exposure to Workplace Chemicals Materials