OSHA Safety: Safety Champions Program (SCP) Training Course

Becoming a Safety Champion is a marathon, not a sprint. The program is structured as a three-step journey—Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced—designed to move your organization away from a mountain of paperwork and toward a functional, proactive safety system.

The journey begins by focusing on the Seven Core Elements:

1. Management Leadership: Starts at the top. You must draft a written policy, set clear goals, and ensure management signs off.
2. Worker Participation: You are the eyes and ears of the facility. Use surveys to find "slick spots" and establish anonymous reporting channels.
3. Hazard Identification and Assessment: You cannot fix what you do not see. Create JHAs for routine and non-routine tasks, and track each hazard from discovery to correction.
4. Hazard Prevention and Control: Use to prioritize fixes, ensuring you document all control decisions.
5. Education and Training: Build a calendar for every role, ensuring training is documented, accessible, and tailored to the workforce's language and literacy levels.
6. Program Evaluation and Improvement: Use your OSHA 300 logs and simple spreadsheets to track injury rates (lagging) and completed inspections (leading).
7. Communication on Multi-Employer Worksites: When contractors are present, verify their safety records and implement written rules for the site.

To begin, register at osha.gov/safety-champions, download the Step Guide and Safety Champions Tracker, and pick one "5-Minute Win" to execute this week.

This program is available with Spanish and French closed captions.