It is your responsibility to maintain a safe and healthy workplace. One of the ways to do this, is to encourage safe work practices within the company. So, how are you going to do that? Firstly, your need to know and be trained in what a safe work practice is. The foundation of this knowledge will come from the Health and Safety Statement , training and your written Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s). Before we get into the details, what is meant by a safe work practices? As we all know, this can differ from person to person! That is why it is critical not to leave this to opinion, but instead to training and written procedures. The definition: “Safe work practices are generally written methods outlining how to perform a task with minimum risk to people, equipment, materials, environment, and processes.” 1. Get basic training Certain jobs require first aid and emergency training, but even if no prior safety education is need...