Staff Training Guide: Workplace Health and Safety at Nissan (2018)

This staff training guide outlines the essential aspects of health and safety in the workplace for Nissan employees. It emphasizes the management's responsibility to provide adequate knowledge and training to ensure a safe and healthy work environment. The guide covers training need analysis, focusing on identifying gaps in employee competencies regarding workplace hazards, injuries, and accidents. Key topics include understanding various workplace hazards, their effects, and relevant elements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984. For safety and health representatives, the training covers procedures, policies, standards, regulations, and codes of practice. The training plan involves evaluating staff training needs, outlining the plan in written documents, and identifying necessary resources. Training provisions include safety and health courses at Nissan's Staff Development Center, safety inductions to raise awareness, and the potential use of external health and safety representatives. The guide references resources such as 'A Practical Guide to the Occupational Safety and Health Act' and Nissan's reports on employee capabilities.

Staff training guide on health and
safety in the workplace for Nissan

Introduction
• The management of Nissan is
required to provide adequate
knowledge about the health and
safety of the employees at the
workplace to the staff. The
management should make them
aware about the hazards that could
occur at the workplace and provide
them with adequate training such
that they could be able to be
healthy and safe post training
program .

Training need analysis
• The training need analysis
should identify the current
gap and competencies of
each of the employees under
training.
• The training should be
creating awareness about the
injuries, accidents, and
hazards that ad or could be
occurring at the workplace

Need to know facts for the staff
• Various kinds of hazards
while working
• Effects of each of the hazards
at the workplace
• Elements comprising in
Occupational Safety and
Health Act 1984

Need to know facts for Safety and Health
representatives
• Procedures and policies
related to occupational
health and safety
• Standards
• Regulations
• Code of practices

Training plan
• Evaluating the training
needs of staff
• Outlining the plan for
training in written
documents
• Identifying the resources
for undertaking the
training program for the
staff

Training provision
• Safety and Health at the workplace- requires
the provision of training courses held at the
Staff development center of Nissan
• Safety inductions- requires creating awareness
about the health and safety t the workplace to
the employees working in the company.
• External providers- these include the hiring of
the representatives dealing with the health and
safety at the workplace

Bibliography
• Connolly Jr, W.B. and Crowell, D.R., 2017. A
Practical Guide to the Occupational Safety and
Health Act. Law Journal Press.
• nissan-global.com (2018). With Our Employees
Making full use of the capabilities of our
diverse staff. [online] Available at:
https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/DOCUMEN
T/PDF/SR/2005/sr2005_E_p25-30.pdf
[Accessed 23 May 2018].