Course Library

Abrasive Wheels and Grinder Safety

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Duration: 25 min

If you work with or near abrasive wheels or grinders, some of the dangers are obvious. However, grinders also carry dangers that may not be so obvious. It’s essential when you work with or near grinders that you are aware of--and know how to manage--all of these dangers, even if you cannot see them. The risks are manageable with the right knowledge and tools- we will cover these in our lesson on Abrasive Wheels and Grinder Safety.

Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records

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Duration: 10 min

If your work exposes you to toxic substances or harmful physical agents, OSHA's Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records standard gives you the right to see your exposure and medical records and results of any workplace exposure monitoring. This course covers which records you have the right to access and which records your employer is not required to give you access to. Employer responsibilities and OSHA designated representatives are also discussed.

Accident Prevention Signs and Tags

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Duration: 11 min

Signs and tags warning of hazardous conditions, instantly alerting people to danger, or explaining how to protect yourself are vital in a workplace where health and safety is key. This course assists both employers and employees in understanding signs and tags, what they mean, where they should be located, and how important it is to use them properly. OSHA standards are referenced throughout.

AED

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Duration: 20 min

Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) save thousands of lives each year. They are readily available and surprisingly simple to use. This step-by-step training prepares you to use an AED to treat victims of sudden cardiac arrest and refreshes your knowledge of CPR techniques.

Aerial Lifts

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Duration: 18 min

Working in and around aerial lifts, also referred to as mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs), poses a variety of hazards for workers at height and those below them on the ground. This course identifies lift hazards and provides guidelines to help reduce the risks of working on or near elevated work platforms.

Alcohol Awareness

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Duration: 42 min

Most, if not all workplaces have a zero-tolerance for alcohol, but the effect it can have on your employees in their personal lives can still be a negative factor at work. This course presents the facts about alcohol consumption and defines the difference between use and abuse. It explains both the short and long-term effects of alcohol on the body and mind and discusses the signs and symptoms of intoxication and alcohol abuse so employees can recognize them and take action. With this information, employees can think about their choices and be encouraged to make responsible and safe decisions.

Asbestos Safety

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Duration: 34 min

You may be exposed to asbestos in your workplace. While this course is not a replacement for the specialized training required for certain classes of workers, we will describe the hazards associated with asbestos exposure. Additionally, we will explain the precautions needed to minimize personal danger.

Atmospheric Testing

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Duration: 17 min

If your work requires you to enter a confined space, you must test the atmosphere in that space before you go in. This course explains the importance of using well-calibrated, direct-reading instruments to evaluate the permit confined space you're about to enter. Atmospheric testing procedures including calibration checks, drift conditions, full calibrations, and calibration rules are discussed, as well as why and why to conduct a bump test.

Back Injury Prevention

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-back-injury-prevention

Duration: 17 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Back injuries are a very common, yet preventable, form of workplace injury. In this course, you will learn about the powerful muscles and bones that make up your back. Additionally, you will learn about different types of back injuries, and how to practice "smart" posture, as well as healthy lifting techniques.

Banding and Box Cutter Safety

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Duration: 16 min

In shipping and receiving departments, there are two dangerous hazards that are not often considered: the use of box cutters and banding straps. This course demonstrates the safest methods to use when working with banding and box cutters, and precautions to prevent injuries.

Basic Rigging

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Duration: 23 min

An improperly rigged load can result in property damage, injuries and worse. This course explains proper procedures for different types of rigging equipment and situations a worker might encounter so they can know how to plan and execute a lift safely.

Benzene Safety

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Duration: 14 min

Benzene is a cancer-causing chemical found in a great many industrial workplaces. This course covers the hazards of benzene exposure, introduces workers to OSHA permissible exposure limits, and instructs workers how to protect themselves and minimize their exposure risk. In addition, first aid and spill response procedures are included.

Bloodborne Pathogen Safety

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-bloodborne-pathogen-safety

Duration: 12 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Bloodborne pathogens can cause disease, illness, or even death. If you might be exposed to blood or other body fluids, it is important to know the potential risks and how to reduce your exposure. Through this course, you will learn how to identify common risks, recognize equipment and practices to use to reduce exposure, take proper steps if you do become exposed, and to list aspects of an employer's Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Program.

Cold Stress

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Duration: 27 min

Working in cold environments—indoors or outdoors—can create dangerous working conditions that can result in serious health issues. In this course, we concentrate on how to make a cold environment a safer place in which to work, including preparation and PPE, symptoms of cold stress, and emergency response to cold-related health concerns.

Compressed Gas Safety

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Duration: 21 min

No matter what type of gaseous materials a compressed gas cylinder contains, it requires special storage, use, handling, and disposal. Employees who handle gas cylinders must be properly trained to avoid the hazards of compressed gas and to ensure a safe workplace. This course covers safe use and storage practices, inspections, and hazards associated with various types of compressed gas. Recommended PPE and instruction on safely moving the cylinders are also included.

Confined Spaces

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Duration: 18 min

Employees who sometimes work in confined spaces must be trained to recognize and control the hazards of their potentially dangerous environment. This course helps prepare permit-required confined space workers by explaining what working in a confined space entails. Included in the course are typical hazards of permit-required confined spaces, descriptions of the written confined-space employer programs and entry permits required by the OSHA standard, and safety guidelines for working in confined spaces.

CPR

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Duration: 14 min

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – CPR – is a procedure that can mean life or death in an emergency situation. While this course is not a replacement for hands-on training, we will better prepare you for emergency situations by covering how to assess a scene and determine if CPR is needed. Additionally, we will discuss methods to protect yourself while helping victims, list the steps of CPR, and describe when to use an automated external defibrillator (AED).

Crane Safety

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Duration: 23 min

All employees who work on or around cranes need to be aware of the risks of crane operation. In this course, you will learn how to recognize common hazards of crane operation and employ safe work practices.

Drug Awareness

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Duration: 39 min

This course provides employees with a basic overview of legal and illegal drugs and the serious consequences of their use and abuse. Topics include the risks and dangers of prescription and street drugs, including opioids and fentanyl, the drugs included in the 5 schedules of the Controlled Substances Act, symptoms of drug use and abuse to look for in yourself and others, and different types of treatments and therapies.

Electrical Safety

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-electrical-safety

Duration: 35 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Working safely around electricity is critically important: hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries occur to workers every year as a result of unsafe electrical working practices. This course reviews how electricity works, how electric shock occurs, the different types of electrical hazards and injuries, as well as safe practices for working with and around electricity.

Electrical Safety NFPA 70E

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Duration: 24 min

Working safely around electricity is critically important: hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries occur to workers every year as a result of unsafe electrical working practices. This course reviews the elements of the NFPA 70E Safety Standard, including how electric shock, arc flash, and arc blast occurs, the different types of electrical hazards and injuries, as well as safe practices for working with and around electricity.

Emergency Action Planning

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Duration: 26 min

Whether caused by a natural disaster or man-made, the best time to plan for a workplace emergency is before it happens. Participants of this course learn to distinguish between different types of emergencies, how to follow emergency response procedures, and the basics of a clear and well-communicated Emergency Action Plan.

Emergency Action Planning and Fire Safety

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-emergency-action-planning

Duration: 21 min :: Also Available in Spanish

The best time to plan for an emergency is before it happens. This course highlights the importance of planning ahead for emergencies, with a particular focus on fires. Participants will learn how to distinguish between different types of fires, how fire suppression and fire extinguishers work, how to make the right decision about when to fight a fire and when to evacuate, and how to plan evacuation routes and follow evacuation procedures.

Ergonomics

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-ergonomics

Duration: 16 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Whether your employees spend their workdays sitting at a workstation or actively involved in strenuous physical labor, they are all at risk for Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) and injuries. MSDs often result in missed work, lost wages, and workers’ compensation claims. To prevent MSDs, employees must understand how these injuries occur and what can be done to prevent them. This course introduces employees to common causes of MSDs and the controls and work practices that can be put into effect to reduce or eliminate their risk of injury.

Fall Protection Part 1

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Duration: 18 min :: Also Available in Spanish

When working at elevation, employees must be aware of fall hazards and also be equipped with fall protection equipment. Employers must provide these employees with fall protection equipment and have a fall rescue plan in place, as well as backup rescue plans. In Part 1 of this course, you will learn how to describe both the importance of fall protection and also fall protection regulations. Additionally, you will learn how to identify and avoid fall hazards, and summarize fall protection systems.

Fall Protection Part 2

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Duration: 19 min :: Also Available in Spanish

In Part 2 of the Fall Protection course, you will be able to describe components of fall protection systems and discuss fall arrest systems. Inspecting and maintaining fall protection equipment will also be explained. Additionally, fall rescue planning and requirements will be discussed.

Fire Safety

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-fire-safety-training

Duration: 26 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Every year, there are an estimated 42,800 fires in or at industrial or manufacturing facilities throughout the United States. This course helps provide an understanding of the principles of fire and proper extinguishing techniques. Topics include the combustion process, the different fire classes, fire extinguisher types, operating procedures, capabilities, and limitations, basic firefighting concepts, and the key elements of a Fire Safety program.

First Aid Basics

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Duration: 35 min

If an emergency situation occurred at your workplace, would you know what to do? While this course is not a replacement for lifesaving, first-responder, or CPR training, we will cover situations in which you may be able to offer first aid. We will look at how to recognize emergencies that may occur and following priorities in rendering aid. We will also cover the steps of delivering basic first aid in a variety of situations.

Flammable Liquids

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Duration: 18 min

When you work where flammable liquids are present, it's important to know the safety procedures necessary to use them and the risks involved when they are in use or being stored. In this course, we explain the hazards of flammable liquids, how to work with and around them safely, and the requirements for safe storage. Pertinent OSHA regulations are discussed, in addition to bonding and grounding procedures for safe liquid transfers.

Hand and Power Tool Safety

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Duration: 34 min

Hand and power tools are used every day for many different kinds of jobs. Since they’re not the largest or most complicated tools on a job site, it may be easy to overlook them, but these tools can do serious damage if you’re not careful and well-trained on their use.

Hand, Wrist, and Finger Safety

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Duration: 14 min

Your hands are perhaps the most useful, but also the most vulnerable, tool you have. There are many potential hazards that can lead to injuries of your hands, wrists or fingers. In this course, we will cover the risks and hazards to hands, wrists and fingers. Additionally, we’ll look at precautions to prevent injuries to hands, wrists and fingers and also how to properly select and care for hand protection equipment.

Hazard Communication

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-hazard-communication

Duration: 20 min :: Also Available in Spanish

All US companies that use hazardous chemicals are required by OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to train employees on safe use, storage, handling, and disposal procedures. This course explains the 5 basic elements of the HCS so employees understand the information available to them and how their safety is being ensured. The Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals is reviewed, as well as requirements and purposes of pictograms, warning labels and Safety Data Sheets.

Hearing Conservation

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Duration: 21 min

Working in a noisy workplace can place your hearing in jeopardy. This course will describe how hearing works and how workplace noise can damage it. It will also help you identify ways to reduce the risk of work-related hearing loss and to recognize responsibilities in preventing hearing loss.

Heat Stress

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Duration: 11 min

If you perform strenuous work under hot conditions learn how you can protect yourself and others from types of heat-related illnesses, how to recognize the symptoms of heat stress, and how to take steps to prevent this totally preventable illness from happening to you.

Housekeeping - Industrial: Micro-Course

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Duration: 04 min

Good housekeeping at work benefits both employers and employees alike. When your team follows a proper housekeeping and organizing routine, quality and productivity increase and the chances for expensive incidents, injuries, and regulatory fines decrease. This micro-course reviews the steps needed for those working in a factory or warehouse setting to keep their workstations clutter-free and well organized.

Housekeeping - Office: Micro-Course

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Duration: 05 min

A thriving, and productive office environment does not look chaotic and messy. Companies recognize good housekeeping in the workplace can improve employee health and safety as well as lead to improved efficiency and morale. This micro-course demonstrates how employees can use the 5S system to develop good housekeeping practices and enjoy the benefits of a clutter-free and well-organized workplace.

Housekeeping - Vehicle: Micro-Course

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Duration: 05 min

Companies recognize good housekeeping in the workplace can improve employee health and safety as well as lead to improved efficiency and morale. This micro-course demonstrates good housekeeping practices for drivers who consider their vehicle to be their workplace. The course reviews what they can do to obtain and enjoy the benefits of a clutter-free and well-organized work environment.

Housekeeping for Workplace Safety

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Duration: 18 min

Good housekeeping is not just about tidiness—it’s about safety, efficiency, and ensuring the best working conditions for the whole company. When your team follows a proper housekeeping and organizing routine, you save time, money, space, and materials, increase quality and productivity, and reduce the chances for expensive incidents, injuries, and regulatory fines.

Hydrogen Sulfide

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Duration: 15 min

Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) is a hazardous gas that is always deadly at high enough concentrations. This course is for employees who work where hydrogen sulfide's presence is a possibility. It explains the properties of H2S, the effects of exposure, and describes how to protect yourself. It also includes the NIOSH and OSHA permissible exposure limits.

Incident Investigation

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Duration: 12 min

Workplace incidents are caused by unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors, or a combination of both. They can result in injuries, fatalities, and property damage. Thorough investigation of an incident after it occurs gives employers the information, they need to correct the problem. This course explains how to use a systematic approach to discover the chain of events leading to a workplace incident, focusing on gathering objective data and conducting witness interviews, and implementing corrective actions.

Industrial Ergonomics

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Duration: 30 min

When proper ergonomics are not used, workers in construction, maritime, or general industries may experience Musculoskeletal Disorders. MSDs result in hundreds of thousands of lost workdays and cost workers and employers billions of dollars in related costs. Many of these MSDs may be reduced or even prevented by considering Ergonomics.

Infectious Disease Prevention at Work

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Duration: 15 min

As an employer, you understand the importance of stopping the spread of infectious disease in your workplace. This course is designed to instruct your employees on how they can fight the bacteria and viruses that cause diseases spread through person to person contact or through contact with contaminated surfaces. Instruction includes an overview of what an infectious disease is, how it's transmitted, signs and symptoms of an infection, and basic occupational hygiene methods to control and stop the transmission of infectious diseases in the workplace.

Injury and Illness Prevention Programs (I2P2)

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Duration: 14 min

When your company makes the smart decision to create an Injury and Illness Prevention Program, nothing should hold up that project. This course gives you the information you need to create, maintain, and evaluate your own Injury and Illness Prevention Program. It reviews the benefits of an I2P2 and discusses the 6 core elements that help make the program a success. It also details how you can easily and effectively get your employees onboard.

Intro to OSHA

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Duration: 19 min

Although most employees have heard of OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration), they may not be familiar with what OSHA provides to them in addition to setting and enforcing health and safety standards in the workplace. This course is intended to give workers a better insight into OSHA and how it goes about helping companies provide a safe and healthy workplace. OSHA employer and employee responsibilities and rights are also included.

Job Safety Analysis

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Duration: 21 min

Analyzing workplace procedures, preventing hazards and reducing employee injuries are all important workplace tasks. These can be accomplished with the use of a Job Safety Analysis. In this course, we will explain what a Job Safety Analysis is and then describe the steps involved with JSAs. Additionally, we will discuss the JSA responsibilities of both managers and supervisors, and also summarize the types of jobs and tasks analyzed in JSAs.

Ladder Safety

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-ladder-safety

Duration: 15 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Ladders are not complicated but they have one trait that can hurt people: height. Even the most experienced ladder-user can benefit from reviewing how to identify the right ladder for the job, how to set it up safely, and common causes of falls from ladders. This ladder safety course reviews safety guidelines for ladder use and includes specific ladder safety for step, fixed, and extension ladders.

Loading Dock Safety

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-loading-dock-safety

Duration: 30 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Serious loading dock accidents happen every year with severe emotional and financial repercussions.This course reviews loading dock hazards and typical incidents, along with best practices to keep your work place safe.

Lockout Tagout

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-lockout-tagout

Duration: 17 min :: Also Available in Spanish

OSHA's Lockout/Tagout Standard was created to protect employees from serious injuries or fatalities caused by the accidental release of hazardous energy. This course is for all employees who service or perform maintenance on equipment with a hazardous energy source, or work around these machines. It defines the importance of the LOTO Standard's rules and guidelines to these workers, explains the protective devices used to isolate energy sources, and describes the correct procedures for applying and removing LOTO.

Machine Guarding

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-machine-guarding

Duration: 14 min :: Also Available in Spanish

There are many possible machinery-related injuries. Safeguards are essential for protecting workers from preventable injuries. OSHA standards for machine guarding state that any machine part, function, or process that may cause injury must be safeguarded. This course covers potential hazards on a machine, types of machine guards and devices, and machine guarding concepts and techniques used to prevent machine-related injuries.

Materials Handling and Storage

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Duration: 16 min

It's the goal of every employer to reduce workplace injuries resulting from handling materials, either manually or using equipment, such as industrial trucks and conveyors. This course instructs employees on how to handle materials safely and to understand the potential hazards of this type of work. Included in the course is specific information on conveyors, industrial trucks, and safe storage and stacking procedures.

Mercury Safety

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Duration: 17 min

Exposure to mercury has serious health risks and knowing how to work safely with mercury is important to your health. In this course we explain how to work safely with and around mercury, including permissible exposure limits, necessary personal protective equipment, and safe work practices. Medical surveillance, first aid, and spill response are also discussed.

Multi-Employer Worksites

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Duration: 11 min

When multiple employers, such as contractors and subcontractors, are working on a jobsite at the same time, this creates, what OSHA calls, a multi-employer worksite. In the event of an incident, OSHA must determine who is responsible for safety and health violations. This course explains the method OSHA uses to determine responsibility, defines the 4 types of employers OSHA can cite for violating OSHA standards, and explains how to monitor and evaluate the safety performance of your employees while on the job.

Occupational Exposure to Lead

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Duration: 23 min

Lead is one of the most basic building blocks of the world around us and can be found in many different products - everything from munitions to fishing sinkers. But it is also a toxic substance, so it's important to know how to protect yourself from exposure. In this lesson, you will learn where you're are likely to encounter lead in the workplace, potential health effects from lead exposure, and the right way to develop a lead safety plan for your job.

Office Ergonomics

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Duration: 31 min

Each year, 1.8 million workers in the United States report Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs). These reports result in hundreds of thousands of lost workdays, and cost workers and employers billions of dollars in related costs. Many of these MSDs may be reduced or even prevented by considering Ergonomics.

Office Safety

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Duration: 30 min

Is working in an office dangerous? Most people would say, "No." But offices are full of hidden and not so hidden dangers that can impact your employees' health, safety, and ability to do their job. The safe work practices covered in this course will help your employees recognize and minimize potential hazards in your office and reduce the frequency and severity of risks.

OSHA Inspections

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Duration: 19 min

Knowing what to expect and how to prepare for an OSHA inspection can save your organization time and money. This course gives managers and supervisors an overview of their legal rights during an OSHA inspection and how to prepare for one. The course also covers the three components of an OSHA inspection, types of penalties, and responding to citations.

Pallet Jacks

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Duration: 14 min

Pallet jacks used to move smaller loads in smaller spaces than forklifts are often considered easy and safe to use. But pallet jacks have their own set of hazards, which can lead to painful injuries and damaged materials. This course offers instruction and safe-use procedures for both manual and motorized pallet jacks along with how-to conduct inspections, charge and change batteries, and maintain the equipment.

PCB Awareness

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Duration: 14 min

The toxic chemical PCB was in equipment used by powerplants, industrial plants, telecommunications, and electrical utilities. Banned because of their harm to people and the environment, PCBs still exist in these and many more workplaces. This course explains what PCBs are, where they are found, and how you can be exposed to them. Most important, it covers how you can protect yourself from PCB exposure, administer first aid, and control this persistent, manmade hazard.

Powered Industrial Trucks (Forklifts) Overview

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-powered-industrial-trucks-overview

Duration: 24 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Operating a powered industrial truck, commonly known as a forklift, requires specialized knowledge and training. While this course is not a replacement for hands-on training, it does cover the risks involved in operating a powered industrial truck and includes descriptions of how loads affect forklift stability and precautions for moving a load safely.

PPE

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Duration: 18 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is designed to protect you from health and safety risks at work. But PPE will only protect you if you wear it and wear it correctly. This course identifies different types of PPE, explains how to select the right PPE for the hazards on your job, and demonstrates how to wear PPE correctly. Also included is proper equipment care and maintenance with an overview of employee/employer PPE responsibilities.

Pre-Task and Daily-Task Analyses

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-pre-task-and-daily-task-analyses
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-pre-task-and-daily-task-analyses

Duration: 17 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Hazards and risks are abundant on work sites. In order to mitigate risk, it is import to perform a Pre-Task Analysis (PTA) and a Daily Task Analysis (DTA). In this course, we’ll learn what PTAs and DTAs are and what is included in each. We’ll also describe how PTAs and DTAs are performed and who is responsible for each. Lastly, we’ll discover how PTAs and DTAs help keep your work crew safe.

Preventing Overexertion, Strains, and Sprains

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Duration: 35 min

You work hard at your job every day, but if you push your body too far, you could be at risk for overexertion, strains or sprains. In this course, we will describe what overexertion is and how it affects you. We will also explain what activities can cause overexertion and what the warning signs are. Lastly, we will cover the steps you can take to prevent overexertion while working.

Proper Hand-Washing

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Duration: 03 min

Proper hand-washing is an easy way to prevent the spread of germs. This course takes you through the steps of an effective hand-washing procedure and use of hand sanitizers.

Recognizing and Reporting Human Trafficking

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-recognizing-and-reporting-human-trafficking

Duration: 20 min

Human trafficking is the contemptible crime of abducting and/or manipulating men, women, and children into forced labor or sexual slavery. It’s difficult for authorities to capture and prosecute traffickers because their victims don't often report themselves. To rescue these victims, it's necessary to learn how to recognize victims of human trafficking and report it to authorities. This course offers an overview of human trafficking and answers questions such as: who are the victims, where are they found, what are the red flags that indicate a person may be enslaved, and what to do when you suspect a person is being trafficked?

Respiratory Protection

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Duration: 25 min

Gases, vapors, dusts, fumes, smoke, and sprays can present respiratory hazards, all of which can be hazardous to your health. In this course, we will explain when respirators are required and discuss the most common types of respirators. Additionally, we’ll review the inspection process you need to follow each time you use a respirator, as well as the procedures for using respirators in immediately dangerous to life or health situations.

Safe Lifting in the Workplace: Micro-Course

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Duration: 02 min

Lifting heavy and not so heavy objects during your work day can take a terrible toll on your back, shoulders, knees, and other joints. Whether your job calls for repeated lifting or just an occasional lift, this micro course demonstrates safe lifting procedures that will keep you healthy and working.

Scaffolding Safety

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-scaffolding-safety
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-scaffolding-safety

Duration: 31 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Working on or around scaffolds presents a variety of safety hazards. Scaffolding is a major component of the construction industry and it is essential that you and your co-workers have a safe place to work. This course focuses on safety for the most common types of scaffolding and their specific OSHA requirements.

Silica Awareness

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Duration: 12 min

Silica is found in a variety of materials and released during some of the most routine construction, general industry, and maritime activities. It poses a health hazard to workers in these fields and can lead to debilitating and even fatal conditions. This training is designed for the millions of workers potentially exposed to silica every working day and describes methods workers and employers can use to reduce the risk of exposure to silica.

Silica Awareness

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Duration: 12 min

Silica is found in a variety of materials and released during some of the most routine construction, general industry, and maritime activities. It poses a health hazard to workers in these fields and can lead to debilitating and even fatal conditions. This training is designed for the millions of workers potentially exposed to silica every working day and describes methods workers and employers can use to reduce the risk of exposure to silica.

Slips, Trips, Falls

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-slips-trips-falls
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-slips-trips-falls

Duration: 21 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Slips, trips, and falls are the most common accidents in general industry. They cause 15% of all accidental deaths, and are second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities. This course will provide some information about why people slip, trip, and fall at work, as well as steps individuals can take to avoid slipping, tripping, and falling.

Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure

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Duration: 17 min

Certain facilities that store moderate to large amounts of oil must comply with the EPA's Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule. This course explains how to develop and implement an SPCC plan as required by the SPCC rule. Inspections, containment, spill prevention requirements, emergency procedures, and other types of information required by the rule are among the topics covered.

Static Electricity

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Duration: 17 min

In the oil and gas industry, a small spark from static electricity can ignite and cause a deadly explosion. This course covers how to prevent static electricity from being generated, how to control static discharge, and how to reduce static accumulation. It explains how static electricity builds up when liquids are poured, pumped, filter, or agitated, and how oil and gas workers can prevent worksite ignitions.

Stormwater Pollution Prevention

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Duration: 22 min

Stormwater pollution prevention can be generally summed up with a simple phrase: “Only rain down the drain!” Of course, stormwater drainage and pollution control is more complicated than just one phrase. In this lesson you will learn how to identify hazards and prohibited materials, drain types, and contaminants. You will also learn new ways of looking at waste water and runoff related to your business and its environmental impact.

Stress

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Duration: 21 min

Stress is recognized as a normal part of life, but when it becomes excessive, debilitating, or overwhelming, it needs to be managed and controlled. This course defines stress, explains where it can originate, identifies different types and effects of negative stress, and offers strategies to effectively manage and cope.

Struck-By/Caught-Between Hazards

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Duration: 14 min

Struck-By and Caught-Between incidents are two of the top four causes of construction workers injuries and fatalities. This course focuses on the different struck-by/caught-in or caught-between hazards and recommends protective measures and precautions. Employer and employee responsibilities for identifying and avoiding these hazards are also featured.

Trenching and Excavation Part 1

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Duration: 20 min

Working in and around trenches and excavations presents serious hazards. In Part 1 of this course, we will define excavation and trenching terminology and identify causes of trench failures. We will also explain soil types and soil stability.

Trenching and Excavation Part 2

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Duration: 22 min

In Part 2 of this course, we will take a look at excavation protective systems, including the materials and equipment used in excavations, as well as excavation access. We will also describe the causes of most excavation accidents and common excavation hazards.

Universal Waste

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Duration: 33 min

Handling your company’s universal waste is an important job, as incorrect handling can lead to safety risks, legal consequences and environmental harm. In this course, we’ll cover how to identify different types of universal waste, as well as some of the risks and hazards associated with them. We’ll also learn how to correctly label, store and ship universal waste. Lastly, we’ll determine the right steps to take in order to recycle or dispose of universal waste, and how to handle a universal waste spill or break.

Walking Working Surfaces

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-walking-working-surfaces
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-walking-working-surfaces

Duration: 10 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Walking can become hazardous when unobserved obstacles, unexpected openings, slippery surfaces, or unguarded heights exist. Based on OSHA standards, this course presents safety precautions and practices you need to prevent fall injuries and fatalities in your workplace.

Warehouse Safety

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Duration: 31 min

Warehouses are bustling work environments, with people and equipment moving materials around at a fast pace. This makes them potentially hazardous. Being able to identify warehouse hazards is the essential first step in maintaining employee safety. By taking this course, workers will learn how to reduce their risk of incident or injury by identifying warehouse hazards and taking the appropriate steps to protect themselves.

Welding, Cutting, Brazing, and Hot Work

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-welding-cutting-brazing-and-hot-work

Duration: 31 min

Any time you conduct (or are near) hot work, there is the potential for serious hazards. To help mitigate some of these hazards, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board identifies seven key steps to help prevent hot work-related accidents. This course on Welding, Cutting, Brazing, and other Hot Work will cover safety concepts through all seven keys.

Working Over or Near Water

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Duration: 16 min

When a worksite is over or near water, risk factors and hazards are multiplied. This course is for workers who are in proximity to water every day or those who may only encounter it occasionally. Topics include drowning prevention, immersion hypothermia, slip, trip and fall prevention, OSHA baseline requirements, and best practices for staying safe.

Workplace Inspections

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Duration: 13 min

A regularly conducted workplace inspection is one of the most effective ways for employers to identify hazards and potential hazards before they result in an incident. This course explains the necessary steps to take when conducting an inspection including how to prepare for the inspection and how to identify hazards and risks. How to prepare an inspection checklist, document the inspections, and use the information to take corrective action are also part of this course.

Workplace Safety Orientation

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-workplace-safety-orientation-complete-course
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-workplace-safety-orientation-complete-course

Duration: 51 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Most on-the-job injuries occur within an employee's first six months of work. One of the reasons may be that new employees are not aware of specific hazards because they lack proper training. This course provides an overview of industrial safety fundamentals and safety programs. Topics include the role of OSHA, common hazards in the workplace, how to prevent and respond to incidents, and the purpose of safety programs such as Emergency Response, Hazard Communication, and Hearing Conservation.

ADA in the Workplace

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-ada-in-the-workplace

Duration: 24 min

The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. This course defines how the ADA applies to the workplace, what is required by covered employers, and what a person with disabilities can expect starting from the interview through job placement. The course defines terms used by the Act, such as "reasonable accommodations," "qualified individual," and "hardship." It also focuses on specifics, such as reasonable accommodation guidance and limitations, conditions not covered by the ADA, health and safety considerations, and ADA recordkeeping requirements.

Anger Management

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-anger-management

Duration: 15 min

Everyone feels anger, but how we handle it can be responsible and professional - or disruptive and lead to conflict. This course teaches the anger management skills needed to change habitual anger reactions from dangerous or out-of-control to more conscientious and problem-solving behavior. It explains what the effects of anger can be in the workplace, in the home, and on your health. Tips on problem-solving and constructive help assistance are included.

Change Agility

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-change-agility

Duration: 12 min

In today's globalized and interconnected environment, change is a given. To stay ahead of competition and quickly adapt to changing markets, organizations need to possess change agility. This course features five steps managers can use to implement change agility in your company. Also included are tips on building change-agile employees and how to increase and improve your own change agility skills.

Coaching Skills

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-coaching-skills

Duration: 12 min

Organizations are successful when their employees are engaged and motivated. As a manager or supervisor, it's not enough to oversee the daily activities of your team - it's also your responsibility to coach each employee to help them solve problems, make better decisions, progress their careers, and work well with their team. This course defines workplace coaching and offers suggestions on how to improve your coaching skills. The popular GROW model for structuring your coaching sessions is also included.

Creating a Training Plan

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-creating-a-training-plan

Duration: 14 min

Organizations realize when they invest in their employees' ongoing professional development, they reap the benefits of increased employee retention, greater efficiencies, lower costs, and a highly qualified and motivated workforce. This course is designed to assist you in developing a training plan for your organization, so your training is organized, on target, and effective.

Delegation

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-delegation

Duration: 14 min

Identifying tasks that can be delegated and assigning them to employees ready to take on new responsibilities are key management skills. In this course, you will discover the value of delegation to you, your employees, and your organization. You'll learn how to promote individual and team development, the factors to consider when delegating tasks, and how to coach the employee assigned to the task by following an eight-step coaching model.

Delivering Feedback

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-delivering-feedback

Duration: 18 min

Clear and constructive feedback is crucial to your employees' career development but it's not always easy to deliver. Too often, managers' observations are seen by an employee as critical instead of helpful and motivating. This course provides a step-by-step feedback procedure for managers and supervisors who want to deliver difficult feedback in an encouraging manner. Also included are instructions on documenting your feedback sessions and how to offer feedback to senior management.

Diversity

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-diversity

Duration: 14 min

Organizations recognize that productivity can be enhanced when you have a diverse workplace. It allows an opportunity for new perspectives and ideas to flourish. But simply hiring people with different styles, cultures, and personalities is not enough. Employees need to feel included, accepted, and comfortable. This course explains how each individual can contribute to the company culture by learning to identify their own biases and work to overcome them. It explains what diversity is and how important inclusion is to a successful team. It also identifies some of the barriers to inclusion and how to go about breaking them down.

Effective Communication

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-effective-communication

Duration: 19 min

Effective communication is simply the ability to be clearly understood. Without this skill, you risk misunderstandings, confusion, conflict, and poor employee performance. This course offers helpful methods to improve your communication skills whether you're addressing an employee, your team, or another manager. Also included are suggestions for using non-verbal communication, such as email and text, and an overview of the power of body language and voice intonation.

Goal Setting

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-goal-setting

Duration: 13 min

Managers are responsible for motivating employees to reach and accomplish goals that support the organizational plan. This course focuses on how to recognize and use the strengths of individuals in your department to create goals that both motivate employees and move your company forward. It steps you through the SMART method of goal setting and presents suggestions and cautions that will help you set attainable goals with achievable results.

Introduction to HIPAA

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-introduction-to-hipaa

Duration: 16 min

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted to protect the confidentiality and security of our personal medical information. If you have ever received any type of medical treatment, you should know your rights under HIPAA. If you work with protected health information (PHI), your training must include HIPAA rules and regulations regarding proper handling. This course provides an overview of HIPAA, including why it was created, who it protects, and how it ensures your PHI is protected. The Privacy Rule and Security Rule are defined, as well as information on the types of safeguards in place to protect your privacy. How to comply is discussed as well as the consequences of failing to comply with HIPAA.

Sexual Harassment 2-Hour Course Package

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Duration: 2 hr 0 min

Made up of all four parts of our Sexual Harassment series, this course package is designed to meet the harassment training requirements of all 50 states including California (Bill (AB) 1825).

Sexual Harassment Part 1

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-sexual-harassment-part-1

Duration: 46 min

Everyone wants to work in a safe, productive, and supportive environment. Sexual harassment and other types of abuse, however, create an unsafe and unproductive environment. In this course, you will learn what harassment is and what to do if you witness or experience harassment in the workplace. We will explore the responsibilities of both employees and leaders, as well as state and federal laws. Lastly, we will explain the potential legal outcomes of harassment claims and how to avoid or limit potential damage from harassment.

Sexual Harassment Part 2

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-sexual-harassment-part-2

Duration: 35 min

There is a lot to learn when it comes to the laws and legal ramifications of sexual harassment. In this course, we offer a more in-depth look at sexual harassment, abusive conduct, bullying, and who can be a victim in legal terms. We explore state-specific harassment laws, as well as the potential consequences of harassment. The course concludes with a look at strategies for avoiding harassment in the first place and for creating the lowest level of liability for your company.

Sexual Harassment Part 3

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-sexual-harassment-part-3

Duration: 38 min

Bullying is a type of harassment and abuse that has become more common in recent years, due, in part, to the advent of social media. This course describes how to identify someone who is experiencing abuse and how to respond to it, as well as how to appropriately report the abuse. Additionally, the course details how to build and implement a policy and a protocol for preventing bullying, cyber-bullying, and other forms of online harassment and abuse.

Sexual Harassment Part 4

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-sexual-harassment-part-4

Duration: 34 min

We all understand that sexual harassment is wrong and that it can carry serious consequences. However, situations may not always be black-and-white. In this course, we will look at several real-life harassment cases, and discover what went wrong, where they sometimes went right, and what might have been done differently to prevent sexual harassment in the first place.

Social Sensitivity

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-social-sensitivity

Duration: 10 min

In the workplace, social sensitivity is an important skill. This course discusses how to demonstrate you are aware and respectful of other people, how to consider the perspective of others, and specific types of sensitivity issues common in the workplace. It also includes tips how to listen, how to communicate with difficult people, and how to accept constructive feedback.

Workplace Violence Prevention

http://www.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-workplace-violence-prevention

Duration: 40 min

For the past thirty years, violence in the workplace has been a leading cause of workplace injuries and deaths. Close to 2 million workers are injured and almost 800 die each year from violence in the workplace, while many more cases go unreported. With training and preparation, you can be better equipped to stay safe in violent situations.

Accidents and Breakdowns

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Duration: 17 min

If one of your company drivers has an accident or vehicle breakdown, you would want that employee prepared to handle the situation, especially if other vehicles and drivers were involved. This course explains how drivers can prepare their vehicles for emergency stops and reviews best practices for when they find themselves on the side of the road or in the aftermath of a collision. Included in the course is what to say and not say at the scene of an accident, what types of actions your driver should take to document the scene, and vehicle warnings to look for and respond to while driving.

Alcohol Awareness

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Duration: 42 min

Most, if not all workplaces have a zero-tolerance for alcohol, but the effect it can have on your employees in their personal lives can still be a negative factor at work. This course presents the facts about alcohol consumption and defines the difference between use and abuse. It explains both the short and long-term effects of alcohol on the body and mind and discusses the signs and symptoms of intoxication and alcohol abuse so employees can recognize them and take action. With this information, employees can think about their choices and be encouraged to make responsible and safe decisions.

Arrive Alive - Avoiding a Rear-End Collision

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-arrive-alive-avoiding-a-rear-end-collision
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-avoiding-a-rear-end-collision

Duration: 6 min :: Also Available in French

Most rear-end collisions are avoidable and preventable. In this course, we will cover why tailgating is hazardous, how projecting your eyes down the road can prevent rear-end collisions, the benefits of keeping your vehicle rolling whenever possible, the importance of maintaining space around your vehicle, and the best way to separate yourself from a tailgater.

Arrive Alive - Avoiding Backing Collisions

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-arrive-alive-avoiding-backing-collisions
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-avoiding-backing-collisions

Duration: 6 min :: Also Available in French

Backing incidents are the single most common type of traffic collision and are almost always preventable. In this course, we discuss ways to avoid backing, parking in areas that offer the least competition, and watching out for moving dangers such as pedestrians and cyclists.

Arrive Alive - Avoiding Distractions

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-arrive-alive-avoiding-distractions
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-avoiding-distractions

Duration: 4 min :: Also Available in French

This course describes the different types of distractions a driver must understand, recognize, and avoid. Included are suggestions on how to eliminate distractions while you drive, with a focus on one of the most powerful distractions of all: using a cell phone.

Arrive Alive - Avoiding Intersection Collisions

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-arrive-alive-avoiding-intersection-collisions
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-avoiding-intersection-collisions

Duration: 6 min :: Also Available in French

The Federal Highway Administration reports 50% of all collisions and 20% of fatalities happen at intersections. This short course on safely navigating through intersections includes guidelines on managing your speed, timing the lights, using turn signals wisely, and most importantly, how to remain aware at all times when approaching, stopping at, or driving through an intersection.

Arrive Alive - Building Effective Seeing Habits

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-arrive-alive-building-effective-seeing-habits
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-building-effective-seeing-habits

Duration: 4 min :: Also Available in French

To safely operate a motor vehicle, your eyes must constantly feed information to your brain and assess your driving environment and determine what is safe and what is a hazard. This course covers some of the ways to help your eyes and brain help you make safe decisions. Decisions such as controlling your speed and Aiming High in Steering®, the first of the Smith System 5Keys®.

Arrive Alive - Drowsy Driving

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-arrive-alive-drowsy-driving
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-drowsy-driving

Duration: 5 min :: Also Available in French

Research shows drivers who remained awake for more than 18 hours demonstrated reaction times equivalent to those with a blood alcohol concentration of .05%. This course looks at the reasons behind sleepiness, the peak periods for wakefulness and sleepiness, common misconceptions of combating sleepiness, as well as what does work to counteract some of the effects of tiredness and minimize the changes of driving drowsy.

Arrive Alive - Emotions and Driving

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-arrive-alive-emotions-and-driving
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-emotions-and-driving

Duration: 7 min :: Also Available in French

Drivers often don't realize how important it is to focus on driving and leave emotions out of it. All emotions, whether positive or negative can have an effect on how you drive. This course suggests ways in which you can gain control over emotions that tend to block your ability to perceive, reason, and react well to the various traffic situations you encounter on the road.

Arrive Alive - Foul Weather Driving

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-arrive-alive-foul-weather-driving
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-foul-weather-driving

Duration: 6 min :: Also Available in French

When the weather takes a turn for the worse, so do traffic incident statistics. This course offers tips to help you diminish the dangers of driving in foul weather, using the Smith System 5Keys®. Instruction includes how to improve visibility, look out for other drivers, anticipate dangerous situations before they develop, and maintain traction on slippery surfaces.

Arrive Alive - Margin For Error

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French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-margin-for-error

Duration: 5 min :: Also Available in French

If something suddenly goes wrong on the road, will you have enough room to think and act? This course offers simple tips on how to leave enough space around your vehicle to give yourself a margin for error. By following the guidelines in this course, safe driving becomes second nature and your chances of being involved in a collision are significantly reduced

Arrive Alive - Proper Following Distance

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French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-proper-following-distance

Duration: 5 min :: Also Available in French

Some drivers don't give following distance any thought at all - they drive "where they're comfortable", whatever that means. This course covers which of The Smith System 5Keys® and other safe driving techniques to use to help you decide on a safe following distance to drive safely and Arrive Alive.

Arrive Alive - Proper Positioning in Traffic

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French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-proper-positioning-in-traffic

Duration: 5 min :: Also Available in French

What lane you drive in or how far away you are from other vehicles is often your choice and important to your safety. Keeping a space cushion around your vehicle can protect you from rear-end collisions, or becoming caught in traffic, and even offer protection from aggressive drivers. This course offers valuable guidelines for the often-overlooked safety measure of selecting and maintaining your position on the road.

Arrive Alive - Saving Fuel

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-arrive-alive-saving-fuel
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-arrive-alive-saving-fuel

Duration: 7 min :: Also Available in French

This course is for you if you want to save fuel while you drive, not instead of driving. It offers suggestions on how to stop wasting fuel by changing your style of driving and navigating through traffic. Fuel conserving techniques include how to spend less time idling at intersections, selecting a better route, controlling your speed, and maintaining your vehicle so your engine doesn’t struggle.

Backing - Large Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-backing-large-vehicles

Duration: 14 min

Backing large vehicles and semi-trailers takes practice, experience, skill, and more practice. This course explains the risks of backing situations, identifies safe backing maneuvers, and suggests how to avoid backing situations, when possible.

Backing - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-backing-small-vehicles

Duration: 20 min

Most drivers spend 99% of the time driving forward and only 1% backing up. Yet 25-30% of vehicle accidents occur during backing. This course explains backing risks, identifies safe backing maneuvers, and suggests ways to avoid backing situations all together.

Changing Lanes - Large Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-changing-lanes-large-vehicles
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-changing-lanes-large-vehicles
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-changing-lanes-large-vehicles

Duration: 12 min :: Also Available in Spanish :: Also Available in French

When it comes to changing lanes safely, drivers of large trucks, CMVs, and buses face more challenges than drivers of smaller vehicles. This course focuses on safe practices that take into consideration the huge blind spots, longer stopping distances, and the limited maneuverability of large vehicles. Drivers learn what they need to know to make safe lane changes, minimize the risk of accidents, and what to look out for when sharing the road.

Changing Lanes - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-changing-lanes-small-vehicles
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-changing-lanes-small-vehicles

Duration: 10 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Moving from one lane to another is a hazardous task when there are other vehicles on the road. Drivers need to develop good lane-changing habits to ensure their chances of accident and injury are reduced. This course gives drivers the guidelines they need to make safe lane changes, minimize the risk of accidents, and know what to look out for when sharing the road.

Close Quarter Maneuvering - Large Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-close-quarter-maneuvering-large-vehicles

Duration: 13 min

Maneuvering any vehicle in tight quarters can be a hazardous task, but maneuvering large vehicles presents even more challenges to drivers. This course investigates different types of close quarter driving situations, including backing, pulling forward from a parked position, and various turning maneuvers. It describes the type of hazards associated with maneuvering large vehicles in close quarters and offers guidance on how to avoid collisions and injuries while doing so.

Close Quarter Maneuvering - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-close-quarter-maneuvering-small-vehicles

Duration: 14 min

Whether your drivers are delivering products to a business on a city street or attempting to park in a crowded parking lot, maneuvering their vehicles in close quarters like these can lead to collisions, vehicle damage, and injury. This course instructs drivers on how to prepare for the arrival at their destination, avoid common mistakes many drivers make when parking or attempting to exit close quarters, and how to safely execute a U-turn, 3- point turn, and other methods of getting out of tight spots.

Closing the Loop

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Duration: 16 min

As a supervisor, helping to ensure driver safety is one of your most important tasks. When you receive an incident report about a driver, do you know how to effectively coach them to improve their driving? In this course, we will describe all of the necessary steps of returning a safer driver to the road, including how and when to deliver feedback, as well as following through with appropriate training.

Compass Maneuvering - Small Vehicle

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-compass-maneuvering-small-vehicle

Duration: 22 min

Backing collisions and fixed object, forward motion collisions are consistently at, or near the top of the list of fleet reportable incidents – but they don't need to be. Working with thousands of drivers every year gives us rare insight into why collisions happen and how they can be prevented.

Compass Maneuvering - Truck

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-compass-maneuvering-truck

Duration: 22 min

Backing collisions and fixed object, forward motion collisions are consistently at, or near the top of the list of fleet reportable incidents – but they don't need to be. Working with thousands of drivers every year gives us rare insight into why collisions happen and how they can be prevented.

Core Content: The 5Keys to Forward Motion and Reversing - Small Vehicle

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-core-content-forward-motion-and-reversing-small-vehicle

Duration: 57 min

This course explains all of the 5 Keys of the Smith System as they pertain to Small Vehicles traveling in Forward Motion and Reversing.

Core Content: The 5Keys to Forward Motion and Reversing - Truck

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-core-content-forward-motion-and-reversing-truck

Duration: 1 hr 4 min

This course explains all of the 5 Keys of the Smith System as they pertain to Large Vehicles traveling in Forward Motion and Reversing.

Core Content: The 5Keys to Reversing - Small Vehicle

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-core-content-reversing-small-vehicle

Duration: 18 min

This course explains all of the 5 Keys of the Smith System as they pertain to Small Vehicles traveling in Reverse.

CSA Overview

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-csa-overview
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-csa-overview

Duration: 18 min :: Also Available in Spanish

CSA is the compliance, safety, and accountability program of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). CSA helps the FMCSA and its state partners by using continually improving data to better identify high-risk motor carriers and drivers. CSA applies a wide range of interventions to reduce high-risk behavior and help keep roadways safe. In this course drivers will learn to recognize how they can impact their own safety rating, and that of the carrier the work for.

Defensive Driving - Large Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-defensive-driving-large-vehicles
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-defensive-driving-large-vehicles

Duration: 22 min :: Also Available in Spanish

This defensive driving course is focused on the challenges and risks specific to drivers of large vehicles and offers guidance in how to respond to them with an extra layer of safety. Topics include how to conduct a pre-trip inspection, precautions to take when securing and hauling a load, and behaviors and practices to use while performing basic driving tasks. Information on how to stay alert and how to exercise care at night are also included.

Defensive Driving - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-defensive-driving-small-vehicles
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-defensive-driving-small-vehicles
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-defensive-driving-small-vehicles

Duration: 15 min :: Also Available in Spanish :: Also Available in French

Defensive driving is more than just abiding by the rules of the road. This course offers valuable instruction on how to stay alert, cautious, and continually watch for potential road hazards. It reminds drivers of the safe driving skills needed to avoid collisions and accidents and includes specific tips on driving safely at night.

Delivery Driver Safety

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-delivery-driver-safety

Duration: 23 min

Delivery drivers do important work, but are at risk for injuries and incidents when driving and moving their load. This course explains how to correctly stretch before, during, and after a day of deliveries, identifies proper lifting techniques and precautions for loading and unloading a vehicle, and offers tips for safely using hand trucks and lift gates.

Distracted Driving

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-distracted-driving
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-distracted-driving
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-distracted-driving

Duration: 11 min :: Also Available in Spanish :: Also Available in French

A safe driver is one who knows how to recognize hazards and avoiding distractions. This course reminds drivers of the importance of keeping their eyes on the road and their minds on their driving. It includes different types of driving distractions and best practices for driving distraction-free.

DOT Driver Compliance

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-dot-driver-compliance
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-dot-driver-compliance

Duration: 15 min :: Also Available in Spanish

The DOT and FMCSA establish and enforce a set of rules and regulations for all commercial drivers. Your drivers must be aware of these rules and regs and follow them while driving for your company. This course offers a review of these regulations and information on how to comply. Also featured are requirements for electronic logging devices, how to conduct a daily inspection, and an explanation of the 3 types of driver duty time. DOT whistleblower protection and HIPAA regulations are also explained.

Driver Fatigue

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driver-fatigue

Duration: 9 min

Fatigued and drowsy driving causes at least 100,000 crashes per year, yet it’s a preventable condition. In this course, you will learn how to recognize the symptoms of driver fatigue and the strategies you need to keep you safe and alert on the road.

Driving at Night

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-at-night

Duration: 14 min

Driving at night requires different safe driving techniques than those used during daylight driving. In this course, we explain how driving at night affects your vision and your ability to make thoughtful driving decisions. The course focus is on The Smith System's 5 Keys® to safe driving as they apply to driving at night, including where to keep your eyes, your focus, and your vehicle as you adapt and compensate for the dark conditions.

Driving Distracted

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-distracted

Duration: 30 min

Motor vehicle crashes resulting in injuries and deaths are on the rise at a rate officials haven’t seen in decades. Driver distractions is the reason behind this alarming trend with smart phones being the number one culprit. Our interactive presentation, Driving Distracted, educates drivers in the four types of distractions and how the brain processes information then, through an interactive demonstration, proves the concept of multitasking to be a myth.

Driving Drowsy

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-drowsy

Duration: 19 min

Collisions from fatigued or drowsy driving are on the rise. Our new video, Driving Drowsy highlights some of the common misconceptions of drivers about fatigued driving and the dangers drivers face.   This training video demonstrates how The Smith System 5 Keys can help you and your drivers remain alert and combat fatigue before trouble happens.

Driving EVs

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-evs

Duration: 21 min

This course is an introduction to electric and hybrid vehicles and highlights what drivers can expect when driving one of them for the first time. In addition to defining the differences between electric vehicles or hybrids and traditional gas-powered vehicles, this course explains vehicle range consideration, battery charging station levels, and some of the hazards of driving in cold temperatures.

Driving Family

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Duration: 30 min

Driving Family demonstrates how every driver can stay 100% engaged behind the wheel. After watching this video every person should walk away focused on driving safety in a way that they weren’t before and will drive different.

Driving Lease Roads

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-lease-roads

Duration: 16 min

Driving on lease roads and in staging areas involves challenges and hazards that driving on paved roads does not. This course explains what lease roads and staging areas are and how they can be navigated successfully. Even though they are not owned by a governing agency, there are rules that apply to lease roads that every driver should know. The Smith 5 Keys® of safe driving are applied throughout the course, to be used as a guide to best practices when dealing with lease road issues, surface hazards, obstacles, and attitude.

Driving Prepared

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-prepared

Duration: 16 min

When it comes to operating a vehicle safely, you can never be too prepared. Driving Prepared reminds drivers the importance of remaining ready for unexpected dangers which could arise behind the wheel. Topics include staying fit for duty, daily pre-trip inspections, proper route planning, nighttime driving, foul weather and other driving hazards.

Driving Reverse

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-reverse

Duration: 20 min

Some of the most common situations or crashes aren't on the open road; they are in parking lots, driveways and parking garages, striking fixed and moving objects -- while the vehicle is in reverse. This latest instructional video, and E-Learning course, Driving Reverse, Smith System shows drivers how they can avoid backing collisions and increase safety while parking and in other backing situations.

Driving Roundabouts

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-roundabouts

Duration: 11 min

Roundabouts are becoming more common in the U.S. and, with their increase, comes the need to educate drivers on how to use them safely. In this course, drivers learn the rules of roundabout navigation and how to use the Smith System 5Keys to Space Cushion Driving® to safely navigate them. The course includes instructions on what to do when approaching, entering, and exiting both single and multi-lane roundabouts, procedures for responding to emergency vehicles, and a guide to pedestrian and bicycle safety.

Driving Space

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-space

Duration: 20 min

Driving Space illustrates the importance of why maintaining a proper space cushion is an essential element to collision avoidance. Learners recognize how proper following distance lowers stress behind the wheel without adding additional time to their daily drive.

Driving Technology

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-technology

Duration: 16 min

This Driving Technology presentation teaches your drivers how to use their driving skills gained by using The 5 Keys of the Smith System in partnership with the latest in ADAS technology to prevent vehicle collisions.

Driving the 5Keys - Bus and Transit Services

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-the-5keys-bus-and-transit-services

Duration: 30 min

Our Driving The Smith5Keys Bus video provides drivers with a unique insight into common driving errors and proven safety techniques geared specifically for drivers of city transit, school, paratransit, and motor coaches. This video applies the time tested 5 Keys to Space Cushion driving to bus and transit services that are challenged by vehicle dimensions, passenger needs, and hazards unique to bus stops.

Driving the 5Keys - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-the-5keys-small-vehicles

Duration: 19 min

Our Driving The 5Keys video provides drivers with a unique insight into common driving errors. Using a combination of footage taken from both ground-level and aerial perspectives, traffic patterns are analyzed utilizing our proven 5Key techniques. The presentation also addresses in vehicle collision prevention technology as a complement, not a replacement, for every good driver’s existing skills.

Driving the 5Keys - Truck

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-the-5keys-truck

Duration: 24 min

Our Driving The 5Keys video provides drivers with a unique insight into common driving errors. Using a combination of footage taken from both ground-level and aerial perspectives, traffic patterns are analyzed utilizing our proven 5Key techniques. The presentation also addresses in vehicle collision prevention technology as a compliment, not replacement, for every good driver’s existing skills.

Driving the 5Keys - Utility Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-the-5keys-utility-vehicles

Duration: 19 min

Our Driving The 5Keys video provides drivers with a unique insight into common driving errors. Using a combination of footage taken from both ground-level and aerial perspectives, traffic patterns are analyzed utilizing our proven 5Key techniques. The presentation also addresses in vehicle collision prevention technology as a compliment, not replacement, for every good driver’s existing skills.

Driving Weather

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-weather

Duration: 20 min

The Driving Weather course is designed to help fleet drivers adapt their driving habits to inclement weather and its effects on visibility and traction - and to protect themselves from other drivers - using The Smith5Keys®, Smith System's proven driving methodology.

Driving Your Brand

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-your-brand
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-driving-your-brand

Duration: 18 min :: Also Available in Spanish

As a driver, you’re essentially driving a billboard for your organization. Everything you do behind the wheel, at your customer’s location, and while you’re in public, reflects on your organization’s brand. This course explains what it means to be “Driving Your Brand,” what types of driving behaviors best represent your organization, and why Driving Your Brand in a positive manner is so important.

Driving Your Brand

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-driving-your-brand-preview

Duration: 18 min

As a driver, you're essentially driving a billboard for your organization. Everything you do behind the wheel, at your customer’s location, and while you're in public, reflects on your organization's brand. This course explains what it means to be "Driving Your Brand," what types of driving behaviors best represent your organization, and why Driving Your Brand in a positive manner is so important.

Emergency Maneuvers - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-emergency-maneuvers-small-vehicles

Duration: 15 min

The best way to prepare for the unexpected on the road is to learn maneuvering techniques before an emergency occurs and have a plan for the best course of action based on the circumstances. Using The Smith System 5Keys to Space Cushion Driving® this course prepares you for the unexpected by offering tips on safe driving maneuvers for common hazards you may encounter on the road. These include how to react to a vehicle coming toward you, objects in the road, brake failure, and tire blowout.

Extreme Driving Conditions - Large Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-extreme-driving-conditions-large-vehicles

Duration: 22 min

Rain, fog, ice, snow, heat, and wind present huge driving challenges to drivers. This course identifies safe practices specifically for the driver of large vehicles to use in extreme driving conditions. It explains how to maintain and equip the vehicle and describes the steps to take to drive safely and avoid accidents in dangerous weather conditions.

Extreme Driving Conditions - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-extreme-driving-conditions-small-vehicles

Duration: 20 min

Designed for drivers of small vehicles, this course identifies safe driving practices in harsh weather conditions, explains how to maintain your vehicle, and helps you prepare for extreme driving conditions in rain, fog, ice, snow, and heat.

Failure to Yield - Large Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-failure-to-yield-large-vehicles
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-failure-to-yield-large-vehicles

Duration: 19 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Failing to yield while driving can produce dangerous consequences. This course, designed for drivers of large vehicles, will discuss situations in which you’ll need to yield to another vehicle on the road. We’ll also cover how to identify when a driver’s failure to yield has caused a collision, and how to make smart decisions that may help avoid collisions when you drive.

Failure to Yield - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-failure-to-yield-small-vehicles
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-failure-to-yield-small-vehicles

Duration: 19 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Failing to yield while driving can produce dangerous consequences. This course will discuss situations in which you’ll need to yield to another vehicle on the road. We’ll also cover how to identify when a driver’s failure to yield has caused a collision, and how to make smart decisions that may help avoid collisions when you drive.

Fifteen-Passenger Vans

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-fifteen-passenger-vans

Duration: 19 min

15-passenger vans react differently than smaller cars and larger trucks. They are bigger and heavier than cars and have larger blind spots. Upon completing this course you will understand the special skills and knowledge it takes to operate a 15-passenger van, and how to prepare and properly load the van to reduce the risk of accidents, especially rollovers.

Fleet Safety

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-fleet-safety

Duration: 16 min

Employers invest in a comprehensive fleet safety program when they consider employee safety of key importance. This course explains fleet safety procedures and policies, employee and management roles in the program, and how the program will have a positive impact on the safety record of their fleet.

Following Distance: Resolving the Debate - Small Vehicle

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-following-distance-resolving-the-debate-small-vehicle

Duration: 14 min

Following distance plays a major role in most multi-vehicle traffic collisions. Despite the evidence, huge numbers of drivers, either through lack of training or personal choice, continue to maintain inadequate spacing.

Following Distance: Resolving the Debate - Truck

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-following-distance-resolving-the-debate-truck

Duration: 15 min

Following distance plays a major role in most multi-vehicle traffic collisions. Despite the evidence, huge numbers of drivers, either through lack of training or personal choice, continue to maintain inadequate spacing.

Food Service Delivery Driver

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-food-service-delivery-driver

Duration: 28 min

Food service delivery drivers do important work, but are at risk for injuries and incidents when driving and moving their load. This course explains how to correctly stretch before, during, and after a day of deliveries, identifies proper lifting techniques and precautions, and offers tips for safely using hand trucks and lift gates. Additionally, ways to properly load, deliver and unload food products will be discussed.

HAZMAT Transportation Part 1

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-hazmat-transportation-part-1
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-hazmat-transportation-part-1

Duration: 08 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Safely transporting hazardous materials begins with properly packaging, labeling, and preparing those hazardous materials for shipment. In Part 1 of this 3-part course, we review HAZMAT definitions and regulations and define the responsibilities of shippers and carriers. This section also includes the Hazardous Materials Table (HMT).

HAZMAT Transportation Part 2

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-hazmat-transportation-part-2
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-hazmat-transportation-part-2

Duration: 09 min :: Also Available in Spanish

When hazardous materials are shipped, public safety depends on proper packaging, labeling, and handling of hazardous materials (HAZMAT). Part 2 of this 3-part course describes the shipping documentation, package markings, and labeling required by the HMR and includes instruction on how to respond to HAZMAT spills and emergencies.

HAZMAT Transportation Part 3

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-hazmat-transportation-part-3
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-hazmat-transportation-part-3

Duration: 09 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Every HAZMAT vehicle requires identification to instantly alert all concerned that hazardous materials are within. The final part of this 3-part course identifies vehicle placarding requirements, as mandated by the PHMSA. It also describes carrier and shipper responsibilities, and reportable HAZMAT incident response procedures.

Housekeeping - Vehicle: Micro-Course

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-housekeeping-vehicle-micro-course

Duration: 05 min

Companies recognize good housekeeping in the workplace can improve employee health and safety as well as lead to improved efficiency and morale. This micro-course demonstrates good housekeeping practices for drivers who consider their vehicle to be their workplace. The course reviews what they can do to obtain and enjoy the benefits of a clutter-free and well-organized work environment.

Intersections: Among the Most Dangerous Places on Earth

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-intersections-among-the-most-dangerous-places-on-earth

Duration: 24 min

This presentation explores the many threats in and around intersections and uses The Smith 5 Keys to provide drivers with simple to learn and easy to use techniques to dramatically reduce these threats. The video concludes with an engaging animated reenactment of an intersection collision which the audience is asked to analyze based on the knowledge learned earlier. Intersections: Among the Most Dangerous Places on Earth is a must see for any fleet concerned about intersection related collisions.

Load Securement Part 1: Principles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-load-securement-part-1-principles

Duration: 19 min

Carrying an improperly secured load puts both the driver of the vehicle and the driving public at risk. Part one of this two-part course explains the need for load securement and describes the basic principles and standards for load securement.

Load Securement Part 2: Equipment and Methods

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-load-securement-part-2-securement-equipment

Duration: 23 min

Carrying an improperly secured load puts both the driver of the vehicle and the driving public at risk. Part two of this two-part course describes the equipment and methods used in securement systems.

Night Driving

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-night-driving

Duration: 12 min

Driving at night requires different safe driving techniques than those used during daylight driving. In this course, we explain how to drive safely at night as you adapt and compensate for the dark conditions. The course also includes how night driving affects your vision and your ability to make timely and thoughtful driving decisions.

Overhead Clearance

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Duration: 09 min

In this course, we look at overhead clearance strikes, why they continue to occur, and what you can do to make certain your vehicle never hits an overhead obstacle. Included are tips for safely backing up when encountering low overhead clearance and precautionary measures specific to bridges, power lines, and overhead signs and traffic lights.

Parking Lot Safety

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-parking-lot-safety

Duration: 24 min

The humble parking lot can present more dangers to a professional driver than the interstate. Parking lots are prime territory for negligent drivers, low speed collisions, burglars, pickpockets, carjackers, and vandals. They also present potential problems with pedestrians (especially children) being hit by drivers who are backing up, turning or negotiating intersections with cross walks. This course reviews these common hazards and explains what to do and what to avoid doing in parking lots when driving, parking, walking, and departing.

Pre-Trip Inspections - Large Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-pre-trip-inspections-large-vehicles

Duration: 13 min

A thorough inspection of your vehicle before you begin each trip is crucial to the safety of you, your cargo, and other drivers. This course is specifically designed to address the pre-trip inspection process for large vehicles and set you up for a safe and successful trip.

Pre-Trip Inspections - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-pre-trip-inspections-small-vehicles
Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-pre-trip-inspections-small-vehicles

Duration: 10 min :: Also Available in Spanish

A pre-trip inspection helps you find problems that could cause a crash, breakdown, or citation. It is important to perform a daily pre-trip and post-trip inspection for every trip. In this course, you will learn the essential steps to perform a pre-trip inspection for small and light duty trucks.

Pre-Trip Inspections - Small Vehicles

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-pre-trip-inspections-small-vehicles-preview

Duration: 10 min

A pre-trip inspection helps you find problems that could cause a crash, breakdown, or citation. It is important to perform a daily pre-trip and post-trip inspection for every trip. In this course, you will learn the essential steps to perform a pre-trip inspection for small and light duty trucks.

Rear-End Collisions - Large Vehicles

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Duration: 14 min

Rear-end collisions happen all the time, resulting in injuries, costly damage, legal fees, and fatalities. This course explores methods that drivers of tractor trailers and other large trucks can use to help avoid rear-ending another vehicle, and steps to keep their vehicle from getting hit from behind.

Rear-End Collisions - Small Vehicles

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Duration: 22 min

Rear-end collisions occur frequently and result in injuries, damage, costly repairs, and fatalities. This course details what you can do to avoid being hit from behind and the actions you can take to keep your vehicle from being struck by a driver behind you.

Responsible Driver Series: Accidents and Breakdowns

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Duration: 8 min

How would your employees respond to a breakdown or accident while driving? This course provides information to drivers so they handle such situations safely and know what to do and what NOT to do should an incident occur. Included in the course is how to prepare for the possibility of an accident or breakdown, common reasons for vehicle breakdowns, and warnings to look for while driving.

Responsible Driver Series: Collisions

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Duration: 8 min

Collisions are a fact of life on the road and working drivers have more opportunity to encounter them than most. This course helps drivers recognize the types of hazards that can cause collisions and offers driving techniques to help avoid collisions with other vehicles. Included are descriptions of different types of collisions and best practice driving tips.

Responsible Driver Series: Defensive Driving

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Duration: 10 min

When an employee knows how to drive defensively, it means the employee is alert, cautious, and continually looking out for potential hazards. This course instructs drivers on how to go about becoming a defensive driver and avoid collisions and accidents. Topics include safety guidelines for driving defensively and how to anticipate and react to hazards.

Responsible Driver Series: Distracted Driving

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Duration: 9 min

Everyone drives distracted at one time or another, but a safe driver knows how to recognize, avoid, and/or eliminate distractions. This course reminds drivers how important it is to drive distraction-free. It focuses on how to eliminate distractions and re-focus if they find themselves becoming distracted. It also includes best practices for driving distraction free.

Responsible Driver Series: Food Delivery Safety

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Duration: 14 min

In addition to driving hazards, delivery drivers face many risks while completing their duties. This course addresses those risks and gives drivers the information they need to keep themselves - and the food they deliver-safe. Topics include safety procedures to follow when a location looks dangerous, slip, trip, and fall prevention, and how to properly handle food while it is in their care, so it remains at a safe temperature, intact, and contaminant-free.

Responsible Driver Series: Harassment

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Duration: 9 min

Sexual harassment includes a wide range of behaviors, not restricted to sexual abuse and assault. Training your employees to recognize harassment, whether it is verbal, physical, or emotional, helps them understand what appropriate behavior is and what it is not. This course discusses conversational boundaries, respecting customers' privacy and personal space, and bystander responsibility. It also defines the various terms used to describe types of sexual assault.

Right Foot Fuel Economy

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Duration: 23 min

In just a few minutes, drivers will grasp the simple techniques that will help them immediately realize better fuel economy with the added benefit of safer vehicle operation.

Road Rage

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Duration: 15 min

What is road rage and what triggers it? This course defines road rage, explains what stressors can trigger road rage, teaches you how to avoid aggressive drivers, and lists steps you can take if you become a victim of road rage.

Roundabouts

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Duration: 10 min

Roundabouts are becoming more popular in the U.S. and, with that popularity, comes the need to educate drivers on how to use them safely. In this course, drivers learn the rules required in roundabouts, and how to navigate through them. Both single lane and multi-lane roundabouts are featured, with instruction on what to do when approaching, entering, and exiting them. Tips on responding to emergency vehicles and pedestrian safety are also included.

Seat Belt Safety: Micro-Course

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Duration: 02 min

Understand the potentially fatal consequences of not wearing a seat belt and learn what you can do to make sure you, your employees, and any passengers are properly buckled up every time, every trip. Whether you are a driver, operator, or passenger always wear your seat belt.

Smartphones and Smarter Driving: Micro-Course

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Duration: 03 min

Every day, fatal driving accidents occur when distracted drivers use their smartphones. This 3-minute course acts as an engaging reminder to all of us to put down our phones and concentrate on driving. Course includes helpful tips to help put the phone down and a 5 question quiz.

Speeding Awareness - Large Vehicles

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-speeding-awareness-large-vehicles
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-speeding-awareness-large-vehicles

Duration: 16 min :: Also Available in Spanish :: Also Available in French

Speeding is a factor in 31% of all fatal crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The chances of death or serious injury double for every 10 miles per hour you travel over 50 miles per hour. This course examines the hazards of speeding and shares what you can do to reduce the risk of having a speeding-related incident.

Speeding Awareness - Small Vehicles

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-speeding-awareness-small-vehicles

Duration: 14 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Speeding is a factor in 31% of all fatal crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The chances of death or serious injury double for every 10 miles per hour you travel over 50 miles per hour. This course examines the hazards of speeding and shares what you can do to reduce the risk of having a speeding-related incident.

Stop Signs and Signals - Large Vehicles

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-stop-signs-and-signals-large-vehicles

Duration: 16 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Running stop signs and signals is dangerous and it can be costly. This course presents tips and strategies to help drivers successfully navigate red lights, signals, and stop signs.

Stop Signs and Signals - Small Vehicles

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-stop-signs-and-signals-small-vehicles

Duration: 16 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Running stop signs and signals is dangerous and it can be costly. This course for small vehicles presents tips and strategies to help drivers successfully navigate red lights, signals, and stop signs.

Tailgating Awareness - Large Vehicles

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-tailgating-awareness-large-vehicles
French: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/fr-eu/lms-courses-tailgating-awareness-large-vehicles

Duration: 18 min :: Also Available in Spanish :: Also Available in French

Tailgating reduces stopping distance, lessens perception and reaction times, and fuels road rage. It's important for your safety and the safety of other drivers that you refrain from tailgating and that you know what to do when being tailgated. This course explains what actions you can take when being tailgated and offers reminders to help you avoid being a tailgater yourself.

Tailgating Awareness - Small Vehicles

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Spanish: https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/es-na/lms-courses-tailgating-awareness-small-vehicles

Duration: 18 min :: Also Available in Spanish

Tailgating reduces stopping distance, lessens perception and reaction times, and fuels road rage. It's important for your safety and the safety of other drivers that you refrain from tailgating and that you know what to do when being tailgated. This course explains what actions you can take when being tailgated and offers reminders to help you avoid being a tailgater yourself.

The 5Keys to Backing Safely - Small Vehicle

https://lessons.lmscourses.com/index.php?/en-us/lms-courses-the-5keys-to-backing-safely-small-vehicle

Duration: 30 min

This video program reveals a unique and very relevant string of problems, circumstances and vehicle design issues that are not present in forward-motion driving.These problems are almost always at the heart of preventable backing incidents.

The 5Keys to Backing Safely - Truck

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Duration: 33 min

This video program reveals a unique and very relevant string of problems, circumstances and vehicle design issues that are not present in forward-motion driving. These problems are almost always at the heart of preventable backing incidents.

The Keys to Safe Lane Changing and Merging

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Duration: 15 min

The Keys to Safe Lane Changing and Merging offers dozens of real world tips and techniques that will have an instant and lasting impact on drivers of any type of vehicle. Sharing this production with your drivers may help you keep your costs and your headaches under control and may even save lives.

Towing Trailers

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Duration: 19 min

Towing a trailer presents an additional set of challenges to driving a vehicle because the trailer causes the vehicle to handle differently and makes driving more difficult. This course discusses ways you can tow a trailer safely, including checking your vehicle, getting familiar with the trailer equipment, preparing your vehicle, connecting your trailer, loading the trailer properly, slowing down, and driving carefully.

Turning for Trucks

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Duration: 17 min

In the trucking industry, making turns incorrectly is the third leading cause of truck accidents. This course will describe proper turning practices for making left and right turns correctly and explain the factors that contribute to truck turning accidents.

Alcohol Awareness

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Duration: 42 min

Most, if not all workplaces have a zero-tolerance for alcohol, but the effect it can have on your employees in their personal lives can still be a negative factor at work. This course presents the facts about alcohol consumption and defines the difference between use and abuse. It explains both the short and long-term effects of alcohol on the body and mind and discusses the signs and symptoms of intoxication and alcohol abuse so employees can recognize them and take action. With this information, employees can think about their choices and be encouraged to make responsible and safe decisions.

Diet and Exercise

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Duration: 18 min

A sedentary lifestyle and poor nutrition can lead to a higher risk of disease and other health issues. This course explains the risks of a sedentary lifestyle and outlines the benefits of healthy eating and regular exercise.

Proper Hand-Washing

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Duration: 03 min

Proper hand-washing is an easy way to prevent the spread of germs. This course takes you through the steps of an effective hand-washing procedure and use of hand sanitizers.

Stress

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Duration: 21 min

Stress is recognized as a normal part of life, but when it becomes excessive, debilitating, or overwhelming, it needs to be managed and controlled. This course defines stress, explains where it can originate, identifies different types and effects of negative stress, and offers strategies to effectively manage and cope.

Tobacco and Smoking

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Duration: 20 min

Tobacco use can lead to many health issues and is the single most preventable cause of death in the U.S. In this course, we will describe the health effects of both smoking and smokeless tobacco. We will also discuss the benefits of quitting smoking, as well as tips and resources for smoking cessation.