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HR How-To: Workplace Safety

Table of Contents

HR How-To: Workplace Safety is one of the books in the new CCH® HR How-To Series, which presents the key information you need to know concerning important human resource issues. Delivered in a matter-of-fact, "conversational" style, the Series provides an easy-to-scan listing of typical topics and questions most often asked by HR professionals. The content is explained in easy-to-follow terms, and then demonstrated through "stories" in order to apply the concepts to realistic and familiar workplace settings. The information is intuitively organized by the professional's day-to-day encounter with real-world issues. HR How-To: Workplace Safety covers topics such as how to: Recruit with safety in mind Design a workplace safety program Reduce ergonomic hazards Ready your workplace for disasters and other threats

Benefits and Features

• "What You Need to Know" section where critical must-know issues are presented in a quick fact form;

• "What-If" scenarios that explore gray areas, providing insights into real-life, challenging situations. Within these scenarios you'll also see:

  • Best practices to learn what has worked effectively for others,

  • Worst case scenarios often the most effective way to learn,

  • What went wrong for others and how to avoid the same results,

  • Strategies for communicating information to your workforce, including samples, case studies, graphical representations, mnemonics, and more;

• Checklists that summarize the information most useful to your HR work;

• Step-by-step how-to's;

• Self audits;

• Quizzes to measure retention of material learned.