Here are 12 great safety presentation ideas you can use in your workplace. Click on each idea to learn more.

1. How to prevent slips, trips, and falls
2. How to respond to hazardous spills
3. How to stay safe when working on an elevated work platform
4. How to prevent workplace violence and harassment
5. Ergonomics in the warehouse
6. Ergonomics in the office
7. How to work safely at home
8. Personal Protective Equipment 101
9. Stress in the workplace
10. Fire prevention and safety
11. How to stay safe when working at heights
12. How to work safely in confined spaces

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Here are some helpful safety presentation ideas for your workplace

12 Safety Presentation Ideas

1. How to prevent slips, trips, and falls

The primary cause of most slips, trips and falls in the workplace are caused by things that stick up a half-inch off the floor such as:

• Curled-up carpets
• Cords
• Tools
• Uneven flooring
• floor mats

The majority of workplace accidents happen when you trip, slip, or fall. This common type of workplace accident can cause back injuries, strains, sprains, contusions, or fractures.

Here’s a helpful video that you could include in your presentation.

Learn how to prevent trips, slips, and falls

2. How to respond to hazardous spills

During this safety presentation, you can cover such helpful topics as:

• How to respond safely to accidental spills, leaks, or releases of both hazardous and non-hazardous materials to the environment
• How you can help eliminate or minimize the adverse effects that could occur if a spill happens

You can download this FREE spill response plan template to help you prepare for your presentation.

3. How to stay safe when working on an elevated work platform

If your workplace uses elevated work platforms, it’s important to make sure that your employees have the proper training about how to use them safely and to ensure that the equipment itself is not defective.

Elevating work platforms such as scissor lifts and boom lifts can be a great solution to the challenges of working at heights, however, they need to be used properly. Doing a refresher course on the safe use of this type of equipment frequently is a good idea.

You need proper training when working on elevated work platforms

4. How to prevent workplace violence and harassment

NO form of harassment should be accepted in your workplace. Unfortunately, workplace violence and harassment do happen, so it is one of the safety presentation ideas that needs to be addressed.

You should cover important topics such as:

• Sexual harassment
• Bullying
• How to deal with harassment
• Legal concept of workplace harassment in Ontario

The following video explains your rights in Ontario regarding workplace harassment.

Safety presentation ideas: include a talk on harassment

5. Ergonomics in the warehouse

When you think about ergonomics, office ergonomics usually comes to mind first. However, there are many ergonomic issues that should also be addressed in other workplaces, like warehouses. Your topics could include:

• Proper lifting techniques
• Using equipment properly
• Proper seating positions in forklifts and other machinery

6. Ergonomics in the office

With so many people working jobs where they sit at a desk in front of a computer screen all day, learning about ergonomics in an office setting is an incredibly important safety presentation idea. One of the sub-topics you could include would be how to prevent and get relief from eye strain. This video can help you prepare for this topic.

Here are some great tips to prevent eye strain

7. How to work safely at home

Don’t forget the people in your organization who work from home. This is an increasing trend, so doing safety presentations geared toward staying safe while working at home could be very beneficial. The following video will give you some great tips on how to create an ergonomic workspace in your home.

Safety presentation ideas: Talk about staying safe while working from home

8. Personal Protective Equipment 101

One of the best safety presentation ideas is to go over the various items that your workers use for their personal protection to make sure that they are wearing or using the equipment that they need and to make sure that it fits them properly.

If your workers need to wear a respirator for their job, then it is a good idea to get quantitative fit testing done to ensure a proper and safe fit.

9. Mental health in the workplace

Workplace stress, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues make up a large proportion of workplace health issues. You could address some of the main contributing factors to workplace stress including:

• Not taking enough breaks
• Toxic environments
• Excessive workloads
• Insufficient training
• Uneven work distribution

Also talk about ways to create a work culture that promotes healthy conversations about stress and techniques to help reduce stress such as relaxation techniques.

Address mental health issues in your safety presentations

10. Fire prevention and safety

Talking about fire safety is another great safety prevention idea. Many deaths and injuries caused by fire or explosions in the workplace can be prevented by implementing emergency action plans, fire prevention plans, and practising fire protection procedures.

Your talk could include instructions about:

• Making unobstructed exit routes
• Developing an emergency action and fire prevention plan
• Protecting your employees from fire

Here’s a great video that can help you prepare for your talk.

Safety presentation ideas: Address fire prevention and safety

11. How to stay safe when working at heights

If your workers need to perform their jobs from heights, they may be exposed to fall hazards. Getting proper working at heights or fall protection training is important to keep them safe. This type of training is best done by professional trainers. Companies such as ACUTE can come to your workplace to perform this training for you or you can send your workers to their world-class training facility.

In fact workers on construction projects who use the following fall protection equipment are required to take working at heights training that has been approved by the Chief Prevention Officer under the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development’s Working at Heights Training Program Standard. You also need to take a refresher course every 3 years.

You can take WAH training at ACUTE’s facility

12. How to work safely in confined spaces

Confined spaces are high-risk work areas that can kill both workers and rescuers. Very specific rules need to be followed by workers who work in and around these spaces.

Confined space entry training is another course that should be taught by professionals. This type of training will help you recognize confined space entry risks and how establish measured and corresponding controls. You will also become familiar with, inspect and use Confined Space Entry (CSE) access equipment and air quality instrumentation.

A confined space rescue program teaches you how to safely perform a rescue from a confined space.

Confined space training should be done by a professional

Free Resources for Making Presentations

If you are looking for some help in making your safety presentations look professional, here are some free resources you could try out:

Canva: This is a great resource for making and editing images for videos, presentations, posters, flyers, and more.

Google Slides: You don’t have to pay for a presentation program like PowerPoint. Google Slides is a free version that lets you make slide presentations easily. You can create, present, and collaborate on online presentations in real time and from any device.

Pixabay and Unsplash: If you are looking for free images to really bump up the “wow factor” of your presentation, then check out these free image sites.

Reasons to Choose ACUTE for your Safety Training

You can trust ACUTE for the best safety training possible. ACUTE’s experienced team members have been serving safety professionals for over 20 years. You can rely on ACUTE for hands-on, physically distanced, practical safety training to keep your employees safe in the workplace.

ACUTE is dedicated to workplace safety and understands the importance of course and training provider approval.

Why get workplace safety training with ACUTE? Here are just some of the benefits of working with ACUTE:

• Open Door Instructor-Student Partnership – ACUTE’s training services emphasize client participation. Staff foster relationships with clients and serve as a touchstone for advice anytime moving forward.
• Serving Your Team and Industry – With a vast array of clients in the manufacturing, construction, health, academic, and government sectors, ACUTE brings the best safety practices from across the spectrum to your workplace.
• Track Record of Success – ACUTE is rated 4.9/5 stars on Google reviews, demonstrating a commitment to our clients, quality, and passion for training.

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