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Assignment: Leading to Achieve a Positive Safety Culture through the Development of an Occupational Health and Safety Program

Introduction

Congratulations! At this point, you have completed the four other assignments required for this course, and this is your last assignment.

The previous assignments led you through the development of most of the required components for an occupational health and safety program, MyWorkplace, that you may be able to use in your present workplace or one in which you aspire to be a leader in health and safety.

In this assignment, you will develop plans for an organizational safety culture that will be ethical, sustainable, and beneficial to all those associated with the workplace (customer, contractors, employees, and vendors).

Part A: Achieving a Positive Safety Culture

Instructions

Develop your plans for achieving a positive safety culture in the organization you have chosen for MyWorkplace, and send them to your Open Learning Faculty Member. Please include the following areas:

1. Safety Culture Vision: please provide the following:
a. A description of your safety culture vision,
b. Strategies for implementing it, and
c. Criteria for evaluating how well you are achieving it.
A description of the cultural leadership model which you believe would work best in your organization:
- It's Just Common Sense
- Procedure is The Key
- We do What Makes Sense, and/or
- It's Our Way of Life
Note: Refer to the readings, discussion, and activities for Topic 1, Unit 6.

3. A brief recruitment, orientation, and training package that supports your vision of the safety culture in your chosen organization.

Part B: Reflective Summary

Instructions
- The Reflective Summary requires you to reflect on your learning experience in online discussions and journalling. As an online learner, much of your interaction in this course may have come from participation in the online discussions. Consider the following reflective questions:

1. Did the contribution of other learners influence you and help enrich your knowledge of occupational health and safety?

2. Did the ideas and information presented in the readings have a significant influence on your understanding, responsibilities, or perspective on occupational health and safety legislation and standards?
- Write three to four pages (roughly 1,000 words) reviewing your contribution to the discussions and journalling activity in the course. Include the reflective questions listed above and your answers to them. Document your best contribution to the discussions and describe briefly what you have learned from the postings of other learners. Include highlights from other activities and the course in general.

Note

The work you have done throughout the course in learning activities and assignments may be compiled, if you wish, into a personal portfolio that demonstrates your ability to compose a comprehensive occupational health and safety program. You may choose to use this in your present occupation or in the future.

A sample outline that brings together your course work is as follows:
- Definition of MyWorkplace (Unit 1)
- Description, Vision, and Implementation Plan for the Safety Culture of MyWorkplace (Unit 6)
- Safety Plans and Programs (Unit 3)
- First-Aid Plan (Unit 3)
- Fire Prevention and Response Plan (Unit 3)
- Plan of Your Choice (Unit 3)
- Lockout or Ergonomic Plan (Unit 4)
- Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management Plans for (Two) Areas of Risk (Unit 4)
- A Summary of Incident Report Protocols at MyWorkplace (Unit 5)
- An Occupational Health and Safety Committee Inspection and Auditing Plan (Unit 4)
- Developing a Safety Culture: Recruitment, Orientation, and Training (Unit 6)
- An Appendix Containing the Legislation You Identified as Applicable to Your Health and Safety Program (Unit 2)