Why TWI Job Safety?

Job Safety underpins every aspect of work undertaken in an organisation. On the one hand, there are legal obligations every supervisor and manager assumes for his or her fellow workers, and serious risks of litigation to an organisation in case someone should get hurt. On the other hand, good managers and supervisors understand that the law prescribes minimum standards that can and should be bettered in a spirit of true respect for people and continuous improvement of safety. Risks and threats in the workplace and our environment are constantly evolving. The best results in safety are achieved when the majority of the people are actively engaged in, and have the means to, improve safety in their own areas.

Safety is an important aspect of all Training within Industry programs. A strong safety culture is built through the way we design our work (TWI Job Methods), the way we instruct the work (TWI Job Instruction) and the way we lead and motivate our people (TWI Job Relations). But to fully leverage these TWI skills for the benefit of Safety, supervisors and managers must develop the skill in foreseeing and preventing incidents and injuries.

This skill can be learnt through TWI Job Safety training. TWI JS teaches how to see risks holistically. Managers, supervisors and their teams learn to see how physical causes and people causes are linked together in a chain of causation that leads to incidents, accidents and injuries and, ultimately, costs. This allows supervisors to devise appropriate countermeasures early on to break this chain and, through this, protect their people, their organisation and their community.

TWI Job Safety - Program overview

Skill developed: anticipating and preventing safety risks