We each have our own. And there is great value in pausing, checking assumptions, and looking through the lens of others. What happens when you share your story and I share mine?
Learn the value of perspective-giving and perspective-taking as strategies that drive inclusive relationships, leadership, and teams.
Change is constant in our lives, and an essential element of the workplace. Navigating times of change can provoke a wide range of emotions including anxiety, excitement, and confusion. This course provides you with tools to understand the types and characteristics of change. You will also examine change management strategies, and develop a personal action plan to meaningfully navigate your situation of change. This is a virtual course. You will receive a link 24 hours before the course in your email.
Why should you attend?
Meeting fatigue is real. Ineffective and unnecessary meetings are not only frustrating, they can lead to overall disengagement. In this course we focus on not only how to make meetings more engaging, but also how to make them more inclusive. Whether you are setting up your own meetings, running meetings for someone else, or a meeting participant, there are actions that you can take to make meetings better.
In this course, we will cover:
• when to have a meeting (and when not to)
• components of effective and inclusive meetings
• creating engagement
• dealing with difficult participants
Time Management is really all about self-management. Everyone has a finite amount of minutes, hours, and days to get work done. But, some people are able to accomplish more than others. This class will explore where your energy is spent and strategies for how to consciously decide how to eliminate or mitigate obstacles that get in the way of productivity.
As a result of this module, you will:
• Identify where you currently spend and where you want to spend time and energy
• Recognize your time/self-management skills and weaknesses, in order to minimize or eliminate “time robbers”
• Utilized strategies and create an action plan to better manage time/self
| The session provides new WRS employees at UW-Madison with benefit plan information, including:
– How to enroll in new employee benefits Most benefits have 30-day enrollment deadlines, so plan to attend within the first 30 days of employment. If you are unable to attend a Benefits 101 within your first 30 days of employment, please review: – YouTube video of Benefits 101 presentation If you register for an online live session: information on how to join will be emailed to you before the session. |
| Contact Info: Any questions regarding this event, registration or cancellations can be directed to the UW-Madison Benefits Services. Benefits Forms and Publications can be found at: http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/benefits/forms-publications.aspx |
Modules introduces the participant the appropriate scaffold construction methods which include: erecting, moving or altering scaffolds properly, and protecting from falling objects or tools. The module includes information ensuring stable access on scaffolds and the hazards involved with scaffolds. Inspection and fall protection are also discussed. For system scaffold.
Modules introduces the participant the appropriate scaffold construction methods which include: erecting, moving or altering scaffolds properly, and protecting from falling objects or tools. The module includes information ensuring stable access on scaffolds and the hazards involved with scaffolds. Inspection and fall protection are also discussed. For tube and clamp scaffolding.
Modules introduces the participant the appropriate scaffold construction methods which include: erecting, moving or altering scaffolds properly, and protecting from falling objects or tools. The module includes information ensuring stable access on scaffolds and the hazards involved with scaffolds. Inspection and fall protection are also discussed. For welded frame and mobile tower scaffolding
Modules introduces the participant the appropriate scaffold construction methods which include: erecting, moving or altering scaffolds properly, and protecting from falling objects or tools. The module includes information ensuring stable access on scaffolds and the hazards involved with scaffolds. Inspection and fall protection are also discussed.
The participant will be instructed on the importance of wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Identify PPE responsibilities: management to select PPE appropriately to task and to require its use, employees to use selected PPE consistently and correctly. Identify some of the uses and limitations of protection provided by specific types of PPE focusing on common examples of eye/face, head, body, foot, and hand protection. Explain the importance of assuring good fit and how to inspect, clean, and maintain PPE.
The content in this module is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements. Learner objectives for this module are: specify general safety issues of cranes, hoisting, and rigging, define the purpose of the crane safety program, describe general inspection practices, describe testing practices, describe basic load handling considerations, specify operator responsibilities, recognize standard hand signals.
This module is designed to educate the worker on the significant safety issues to be considered while moving large, heavy loads associated with today’s manufacturing and construction industries.
Office workers are often not initially thought of as being very susceptible to injury because they are not performing traditional higher hazard and risky physical labor tasks. The fact is office personnel are still exposed to hazards, which must be identified by inspection, hazard analysis and reporting. These hazards must be controlled through equipment changes, training, employee awareness and behavior, ergonomic adjustments and administrative controls.
Employees who work in an office setting.
Warehousing has become an increasingly hazardous area in which to work. Injuries may occur (and be prevented) related to forklifts/ PITs, materials handling, warehouse distribution issues, slips, trips, falls/walking and working surfaces, improper lifting, ergonomics, insufficient hazard communication (new GHS), guarding floor and wall openings, exit routes, emergency action and fire prevention plans.
The module is designed for warehouse workers, focusing on many hazards and injuries that are likely to be encountered in warehouse operations.
This module covers the various types of common machinery, machine safe guards, and related OSHA regulations and procedures. Guidance is provided on the hazards associated with various types of machinery and the determination of proper machine safe guards. Module topics include machinery processes, mechanical motions, points of operation, control of hazardous energy sources (lock out; tag out), guarding of portable powered tools, and common OSHA machine guarding violations. Program highlights include the ability to recognize hazards and provide options for control and hazard abatement through machine safeguarding inspection workshops. Upon module completion participants will have the ability to describe common machine hazards and sources of energy, identify resources for assisting with machine guarding issues, and determine methods of control and hazard abatement, and selection of appropriate machine safe guards.
It provides general knowledge of the hazards associated with lead exposure and requirements to reduce or eliminate exposure. The content in this module is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements. Learner objectives are to: identify sources of lead exposure, identify adverse health effects associated with lead exposure, specify the purpose and elements of the Medical Surveillance Program; Medical Removal Protection Program and specify controls included in work practices to reduce lead exposures.
Required and very important instruction for employees whose work activities may contact lead.
The intent of the module is to provide the participant with information about the hazards involved with the use of ladders and control methods that will greatly reduce these hazards. The content in this module is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements. Learner objectives are to: identify hazards related to the general use of ladders, and how to control these hazards, describe the types of portable ladders and their use, capacities, and safety considerations, describe the specific use, capacities, and safety features of fixed ladders, specify proper guidelines for ladder care and maintenance.
Participants will gain an understanding of a basic knowledge of: OSHA’s history and mission, employee rights, employer responsibilities, standards, inspections, State of Wisconsin safety and health resources. Included will be an explanation of the relationship of OSHA and the State of Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services.
This module will provide an overview of incident investigation and reporting procedures. The investigation and reporting process helps to provide a safe working environment by determining the causes, then reporting them so that incidents are prevented in the future. The content in this module is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements. Learner objectives for this module are: differentiate between the three cause levels of incidents, actions, omissions, events, conditions, or a combination thereof, that lead to an incident, recognize why an incident should be investigated, recall the steps for conducting a formal investigation, identify recommended interviewing techniques, describe problem solving techniques commonly used in investigations, and recall topics included in an investigative report.
To educate the participant that Hot Work is any work that involves working exposure to open flames, sparks or anything that could potentially start a fire. This Hot Work module is designed to make you aware of the hazards involved with welding, soldering, cutting, and brazing. This is an awareness program that introduces Hot Work safety information and the requirement to use hot work permits.
Employee who have any work that involves working exposure to open flames, sparks or anything that could potentially start a fire.
This module will examine the hazards associated with the operation of heavy equipment and the steps required to minimize or eliminate the hazard for safe operation. Topics include examination of the dangers of heavy equipment operations, Safety issues for bulldozers, backhoes, excavators, articulated front end loaders, skid steer loaders, graders, farm tractors, utility vehicles, heavy dump trucks, bucket trucks, snow removal equipment pre-shift inspections, ground based workers, highway work zone safety, trenching and shoring, fire safety, fall protection, jump starting, loading, unloading and transportation, job hazard analysis, and first aid. Participants will gain insights on how to establish practices and procedures that provide a framework for compliance and actions they should incorporate into their day-to-day operations.