Slip and Fall: Fall Factors

15 million workers fall on the job each year making slips, trips, and falls the second leading cause of workplace fatalities and third leading cause of worker disability. These commonplace injuries can be prevented with a thorough understanding of the factors that cause falls and an employee and company commitment to minimizing the risk in your workplace.

This interactive training course guides learners through the principles of balance, gravity, friction, and momentum to illustrate how falls often occur and how they can be effectively prevented. The course details actual injury data that encourages the assumption of personal safety responsibility. A learning assessment completes the course to ensure participants can understand and apply course concepts.

Prevent the rise of falls in your workplace by making this online safety training a part of your employee safety regimen.

All employees

• The Body's Center of Gravity's Role in Maintaining BALANCE
  • Why We Fall
  • Walking
• Fall Factors
  • Gravity
  • Friction
  • Momentum
• Preventing Falls Resulting from Slips
  • Slip Hazards
  • Correct Hazards
  • Prevention Techniques
  • Footwear
• Preventing Falls Resulting from Trips
  • Trip Hazards
  • Correct Hazards
  • Prevention Techniques
  • Extension Cords/Drawers
• Unsafe Acts
  • Distracted Walking
  • Reduced Visibility
  • Unapproved Travel Areas
  • Running
  • Horseplay

• Recognize how controlling our center of gravity helps us maintain our balance.
• Describe how gravity, friction and momentum contribute to slips, trips and falls
• Identify what precautions to take to prevent falls resulting from slips.
• Choose what measures to take to avoid falls resulting from trips.
• Define what types of unsafe acts contribute to fall-related incidents.