Improve Workforce Efficiency

Course #: 186001
Duration: 5 hours
What Students Learn: A thorough knowledge of safe practices is an important part of working in any industrial setting. Every industrial worker should be familiar with accident prevention techniques, fire safety mehods, and the use of personal protective equipment. Injuries in the workplace cost many millions of dollars in medical costs, lost wages, and production losses each year. Many injuries can be prevented by understanding how accidents and injuries can occur. This study unit is designed to help trainees understand why safety is so important, and to present students with information about safety that goes beyond common sense.

Course #: 186002
Duration: 5 hours
What Students Learn: This study unit deals with the safe use of chemicals in the workplace. The two primary causes of chemical accidents are the misuse of chemicals and the improper disposal of chemical wastes. Understanding the hazards that chemicals can create is the first step in protecting people from harm. The main goal of this study unit is to provide students with sound, practical knowledge about chemical use and disposal, both in the workplace and at home. You will learn how to recognize common chemical hazards and how to deal with them. Trainees will learn how to perform a job analysis to look for potential chemical dangers in your daily tasks. Finally, people will learn how to take precautions to avoid chemical accidents and make all jobs as safe as possible.

Course #: 186003
Duration: 5 hours
What Students Learn: Fires are the most destructive and expensive of all accidents. However, fires can be effectvely prevented through the combined use of technology and common sense. By understanding how fires get started and how to extinguish them, students will have much of the knowledge needed to protect people from fire. This study unit will introduce trainees to the information you need to practice fire safety and prevention in the workplace.

Course #: 186006
Duration: 5 hours
What Students Learn: This study unit introduces the safe techniques and work practices commonly used when handling manufacturing and industrial materials. Trainees will learn the procedures necessary to avoid physical injury to yourself and those working with you, for both manual handling methods and mechanical handling methods. You will also learn procedures that minimize damage to the materials being moved and to facility property. Knowing the proper procedures will also give you the insight to decide when mechanical handling is necessary, or preferred, over traditional physical handling.

Course #: 060007
Duration: 10 hours
What Students Learn: Management Concepts Study Unit: Historical Development of the Management Concept; Nature and Role of Management: Responsibilities, Functions, Authority, Delegation; Leadership Styles and Abilities; Discipline.

Course #: 060008
Duration: 10 hours
What Students Learn: How to Plan, Organize, and Control Study Unit: The Nature of Planning; The Meaning of Organization; The Need for Formal Organization Structures; A Six Step Procedure for Reorganization; Aspects of Controlling.

Course #: 060009
Duration: 10 hours
What Students Learn: The Process of Motivation Study Unit: Concepts and Theories of Motivational Management; Managerial Responsibility for Motivation; The Power to Understand Individual Needs: A Bi-Relational Concern; On-The-Job Assessment of Workers' Needs; The New Worker and New Motivation; Participative Management as a Means to Motivational Management; The Good Morale Enterprise: A By-Product of Motivational Management.

Course #: 060010
Duration: 10 hours
What Students Learn: Employee Relations Study Unit: From Labor Unions to Unionism; The Manager's Role in Employee Relations; The Manager's Role in Employee Selection; The Manager's Role in Employee Development.

Course #: 060011
Duration: 10 hours
What Students Learn: Training, Communication, and Coordination Study Unit: Employee Training; The Training Process; The Manager as Trainee; Communication in Modern Organizations; Communication and Coordination.

Course #: 060012
Duration: 10 hours
What Students Learn: Cost Control and Work Simplification Study Unit: Cost Control; The Language of Cost Control; Work Simplification; The Process of Work Simplification: Select the Problem, Record the Details, Challenge the Details, Develop an Improvement, Install the Improvement.