1. Provide Employee Training

All persons using portable ladders must be trained on ladder safety (as per sections: 3203, 1509, and 1510 – Injury and Illness Prevention Program and Training Requirements).

How to Provide Training

To be effective, training must be provided in a language and at a level that employees understand. Make your training specific to the actual work employees will be doing when using ladders. Effective training methods include:

• practical demonstrations of ways of using ladders safely when working
  
• asking open ended questions to encourage employees to think about how to work safely when using a ladder. For example, you could ask, what are the hazards in your job when using a ladder? What could be done to make you safer when working with a ladder?
  
• small group discussion and exercises

To make sure your training is effective have employees talk to you about the newly learned material and demonstrate that they understand the information.