Safety Essentials Workshop: Housekeeping & Inspections for Retail Hazard Prevention

Workshop Overview

This interactive workshop is designed to help retail organizations build or strengthen structured workplace inspection and housekeeping programs. Participants will be guided through the key components of an effective program, including how inspections are planned, documented, and supported within the internal responsibility system.

A strong focus is placed on understanding the legal requirements related to workplace inspections and good housekeeping practices, and how these connect to due diligence in a retail environment. Throughout the session, participants will work through a series of practical, customizable templates that can be adapted to their own workplaces. These tools are intended to serve as the foundation for developing a consistent and comprehensive approach to workplace inspections and good housekeeping practices.

By actively working through these materials during the session, participants will leave with a suite of ready-to-use documents they can refine and implement after the workshop, supporting a more organized, compliant, and effective program in their workplace.

Resources and tools provided in this session include:

• Workplace inspection procedure and checklist templates
• Housekeeping procedure and checklist templates

Event Highlights:

• Understand how workplace parties contribute to effective workplace inspections and good housekeeping practices
• Strengthen an understanding of hazard identification, communication, and follow up to support regulatory compliance