Practical Loss Control Leadership

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The NB Safety Council Inc. is pleased to offer this four-day interactive loss control management course.

Effectiveness. Efficiency. Excellance. These words adn concepts permeate current literature, courses, adn discussions. they are defined in nearly as many different ways as the number of people who write and talk about them. For practical purposes, the definitations seem to boil down to these:

Effectiveness - doing the right things.

Efficiency - doing things right.

Excellence - efficiently meeting effective goals, both short and long term.

We believe this course can improve your effectiveness, efficiency and excellence of your system for managing loss control adn for quality, production and cost control.

The reference book for the course is 'Practical Loss Control Leadership' authored by Frank E. Bird, Jr. and George L. Germain and co-authored by M. Douglas Clark. The text is published by Det Norske Veritas Industry. (DNV)

The course in its THIRD Edition Nov 2003 includes 20 lessons and 2 Appendices with the principals well illustrated with examples, the key points highlighted and re-enforced by repetition. The philosophy and the 'reasons why' are complimented by procedures techniques and 'check lists for action' forms.

Topics covered by the Practical Loss Control Leadership include:

1. The Causes and Effects of Loss
2. Practical Risk Assessment
3. Managing Control of Loss
4. Motivation and Behaviour
5. Incident Investigation
6. Incident Recall and Imaging
7. Planned Inspections
8. Task Analysis
9. Performance Observation
10. Team Communications
11. Personal Communications
12. Training
13. Problem Solving
14. Off the Job Safety
15. Managing the Troubled Employee
16. Damage and Waste Control
17. Occupational Health
18. Environmental Management
19. Ergonomics
20. Emergency Preparedness and Response

Appendix A) Check List for Action
Appendix B) Lists of Forms and Flowcharts