Build a safety programme people follow, from the first hazard walk to the dashboard
An e-book and 18 working tools that take an operations manager, plant manager or owner through the whole job: leadership and policy, hazards and risk assessment, controls, training, inspections, incidents, emergencies, contractors and KPIs.
- A 13-sheet Safety Programme Workbook: hazard register with before-and-after ratings, risk assessments with overdue flags, one action tracker, training matrix, PPE and contractor registers, incident log, monthly KPIs and a dashboard with charts
- 4 fillable PDF form packs (15 pages): hazard walk and inspection checklists, a three-page risk assessment, the incident, near-miss and investigation report, toolbox talk and drill records
- 6 Word files: policy and committee charter, safe work procedures with two worked examples and three induction outlines, emergency plan, a 42-item message library with 12 toolbox talks, the Brightway worked example pack and 31 AI prompts
- A 7-sheet risk matrix and action priority calculator, 4 printable cheat sheets including dated regulator notes for 9 countries, a 73-event calendar and a 54-task board import
The Workplace Safety Programme Kit · Bodhih Pro Kits · 185 by Bodhih Training, trainers to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
How do you set up a workplace health and safety programme in a small or mid-size company?
Start with a one-page policy the most senior person has read and signed, name the roles, then walk the site to list hazards, score them on a likelihood and severity matrix, push controls up the hierarchy, train and induct everyone, inspect on a daily, weekly and monthly rhythm, investigate incidents without blame, and review leading indicators monthly. The Workplace Safety Programme Kit from Bodhih Training gives you a file for each step.
Want the full free guide first? Read How to Set Up a Workplace Health and Safety Programme.
You already feel the problem. Here is what it is costing you.
The folder from the consultant
A set of risk assessments written to satisfy a customer questionnaire, long, generic and unread since. When a regulator or a big customer visits, the folder comes out and everyone hopes. The kit replaces it with a register, assessments and actions that are updated every week.
Nobody reports anything
Four entries in the accident book and a quiet belief that 'we don't have accidents here'. Near misses vanish because reporting feels like confessing. The kit gives you the reporting promise, the card, the box, the script and the log so the number of reports goes up.
Actions that never close
Findings from a walk end up in an email, a notebook and someone's memory. Six months later the painted walkway has pallets on it again. One action tracker with owners, due dates, overdue flags and verified closures is the heart of this kit.
Training nobody can prove
A supervisor who 'knows who has done what' is a single point of failure, and the newest people and the contractors are the ones who get hurt. The training matrix flags who is due, who was never inducted and which role has no one qualified.
Numbers that mean nothing
An injury rate that jumps around in a 120-person company tells leadership very little. The kit teaches leading indicators you control, explains LTIFR with its limits, and puts six numbers on one page every month.
Country rules you cannot keep up with
What to report, to whom and within what time differs by country and sometimes by state. The kit keeps those specifics in one dated sheet for nine countries, so you know exactly what to recheck and when.
Picture the next few weeks with the kit open beside you.
Picture Monday morning, three weeks from now. You open the Safety Programme Workbook, the Dashboard first, and see the numbers in front of you: inspections completed, actions open and overdue, training due, near-miss reports this month. You take the two overdue actions to the management meeting, where safety is item one, and the managing director asks about them before anyone mentions throughput.
As you walk the floor on Thursday with your most senior person, clipboard in hand, people stop you to point things out, because they have seen what happened to the last thing they reported. The hazard goes onto the walk sheet, into the register the same afternoon, and onto the action tracker with an owner and a date from the band.
When a new starter arrives, the supervisor runs the induction from the outline before the person touches a pallet truck, the record is signed, and the date goes into the matrix. When a contractor turns up without a harness, the area owner stops the job, because the procedure, the permit and the words to say are already written.
And when an incident does happen, you open the report form, follow the timeline-first method, decide reportability on the day from the dated notes and advice, and share the lesson on the board without a name. Whether you start with the Start Here map tonight or the hazard walk on Friday, the first hour is already planned.
19 files that do the work for you
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
The Workplace Safety Programme Kit (e-book, PDF)
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Start here: the safety programme map
Two pages: the eight steps of the loop with the file to open at each, your first hour, and a 30, 60 and 90 day use plan.
Safety Programme Workbook
13-sheet workbook: settings with risk bands and targets, hazard register with ratings before and after controls, risk assessment register with review flags, one action tracker, training matrix, PPE register, inspections, incident and near-miss log, monthly KPIs with LTIFR, drills, contractors and a dashboard with a reports-per-month chart.
Risk Matrix and Action Priority Calculator
Seven-sheet calculator: editable likelihood and severity scales, band thresholds, a printable 5 x 5 matrix, a risk rater with before-and-after scores and act-within days, and a weighted ranker that orders candidate actions by risk, exposure, control strength and ease.
Hazard walk sheet and inspection checklists
Five-page fillable set: a two-page hazard walk sheet with fifteen category prompts and a findings table, then the daily pre-use check, the weekly area checklist and the monthly site checklist. Findings go to the Hazard Register and the Actions sheet of the workbook.
Risk assessment form
Three-page fillable assessment: the task and the people, hazards scored before controls, controls chosen in hierarchy order with scores after, sign-off, review date and the triggers for an early review. Log each one on the Risk Assessments sheet.
Incident, near-miss and investigation report
Four-page fillable form: a one-page report anyone can complete in five minutes, then the investigation (timeline, immediate causes, five whys or fishbone, actions, regulator decision and sharing). Log every report on the Incidents sheet.
Toolbox talk and emergency drill records
Three-page fillable record set: the toolbox talk record with attendance and the one question asked, the emergency drill record with timings and findings, and a visitor and contractor induction record. Log talks on Monthly KPIs and drills on the Drills sheet.
Health and safety policy and committee charter
Two one-page documents your company can adopt: a plain-words health and safety policy for the most senior person to sign, and a roles and safety committee charter naming the safety lead, deputies, first aiders, fire wardens, area owners, committee members, meeting rhythm and standing agenda.
Safe work procedures and training pack
A one-page safe work procedure template with a permit-to-work section, two complete example procedures (forklift and pedestrian movements; chemical handling), and three induction outlines (new starters, contractors, visitors) with the refresher cycle and the induction record wording.
Safety message and toolbox talk library
42 ready-to-edit messages and scripts in 7 groups: launch and leadership, hazard walks and assessments, inspection and action reminders, incident and near-miss communication, contractors and visitors, emergencies and health, and twelve scripted toolbox talks.
Emergency plan template
A short emergency plan with names in it: alarm, evacuation routes and assembly point, roll call, wardens and first aiders by shift, people needing help, shutdown, emergency services, chemical spill, severe weather and heat, power failure, re-entry, plus a one-page summary to post at every exit.
Worked example pack: twelve weeks at a 120-person warehouse
The main forms shown completed for one composite case, from the first hazard walk to a closed investigation: the policy decisions, the walk findings, two risk assessments, the control choices, the training gaps, inspection findings, the near-miss and lost-time injury reports, the investigation with five whys, the drill record and the week-12 numbers.
AI prompt pack for workplace safety
31 tool-agnostic prompts grouped by the eight steps of the safety loop, each with what to paste in and what to check before you use the output, plus the rules for using AI without letting it decide.
Hierarchy of controls card and incident response decision card
Two one-page cards: the five levels of control with examples and sign-off checks, and an 'if this, then do that' card for the hour after an incident or near miss.
Twenty safety programme mistakes to avoid
One page: the twenty ways programmes fail, what each looks like and what to do instead, plus a monthly self-check for the safety lead.
Safety regulator notes by country (correct at October 2026)
Dated notes for India, the UK, the US, the UAE, Singapore, Australia, Kenya, Nigeria and the Philippines: the main law and regulator, what to check and how incident reporting generally works, with the official source to confirm.
12-week programme build and annual cycle calendar
73 calendar events: the twelve-week build from policy to first KPIs, with Monday ten-minute checks, weekly toolbox talks and leadership floor walks, then the annual cycle of quarter reviews, drills, audit, assessment sweep and management review. Import into a new calendar and move to your dates.
Safety programme task board import
54 programme tasks as a CSV ready to import into Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira, with step, week, owner, file to open and due date.
Chapter by chapter
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
- Format
- PDF e-book + XLSX + fillable PDF + DOCX + printable PDF + ICS + CSV
- Files
- 19 files plus a one-click ZIP
- E-book
- 60 pages
- Workbooks
- 13-sheet programme workbook and 7-sheet risk calculator, with sample data, formulas, flags and dashboards
- Works with
- Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Word, Google Docs, Acrobat Reader, GoodNotes, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner, Jira
- Best for
- Offices, warehouses, factories, shops, clinics, yards and field teams of roughly 10 to 500 people, in any country
A Safety Programme People Actually Follow
Why safety programmes fail through paper, blame and invisible leaders, and the eight-step loop that replaces them.
Leadership, the Policy and the Roles
A one-page policy the boss has read, named roles, a committee with floor representatives, and the three commitments that cost nothing.
Finding Hazards: Walks and the Register
Hazard walks with a mixed group, category prompts so nothing is missed, and a register filled the same day.
Risk Assessment Without the Jargon
A five-by-five likelihood and severity matrix, bands with act-within timelines, review triggers and the overdue flags.
Controls: The Hierarchy, Procedures, Permits and PPE
The hierarchy of controls, one-page safe work procedures, permits for the dangerous jobs and PPE issued with a record.
Training and Induction That Sticks
Induction before work starts for starters, contractors and visitors, role training, refreshers and a matrix that flags gaps.
Inspections and the Action Tracker
Daily, weekly, monthly and specialist inspections feeding one action tracker, with the two-minute rule and verified closures.
Incidents and Near Misses Without Blame
Reporting that is easy and safe, investigation by timeline then causes, regulator reporting decided on the day, and lessons shared.
Emergencies and Occupational Health
A short emergency plan with names in it, drills that find problems first, and the five occupational health areas every programme needs.
Contractors, Toolbox Talks and Keeping Safety Visible
Selecting, inducting, permitting and supervising contractors, plus toolbox talks, briefings and a board that changes weekly.
KPIs, Culture, Audits and AI
Leading and lagging indicators, LTIFR with its limits, a culture check, the annual audit and management review, and the rules for AI.
The Programme You Will Still Be Running Next Year
Twelve weeks at Brightway in one page, and the weekly habits that keep the programme alive next year.
Safety KPI Definitions and Formulas
Eleven indicators defined, typed as leading or lagging, with where each is calculated in the workbook.
Rules for AI in the Safety Programme
Seven rules for using AI assistants in a safety programme without handing them a decision or a worker's data.
Not just reading. Tools you will actually open again.
E-book
- The Workplace Safety Programme Kit: 10 chapters, 2 appendices and 6 hand-drawn figures, about 9,800 words (PDF)
Start here
- 00-Start-Here-Safety-Programme-Map: the eight steps with the file to open at each, your first hour, a 30/60/90 day plan and where to measure your starting point (PDF)
Spreadsheets
- Safety Programme Workbook: 13 sheets, Settings with risk bands, timelines and KPI targets, hazard register, risk assessments, actions, training matrix, PPE register, inspections, incidents, monthly KPIs with LTIFR, drills, contractors and a dashboard with 25 metrics and a reports-per-month chart (XLSX)
- Risk Matrix and Action Priority Calculator: 7 sheets, editable scales, a live 5 x 5 matrix, a single-risk rater and a priority ranker that orders your actions (XLSX)
Fillable PDF forms
- Hazard walk sheet and inspection checklists: hazard walk, hazards found, daily pre-use, weekly area and monthly site (5 pages)
- Risk assessment form: task and people, hazards with scores before and after controls, sign-off and review triggers (3 pages)
- Incident, near-miss and investigation report: the five-minute report, timeline, causes, actions, reporting and sharing (4 pages)
- Toolbox talk, emergency drill and visitor or contractor induction records (3 pages)
Word templates
- Health and safety policy and safety roles and committee charter
- Safe work procedures and training pack: procedure template, two complete examples, three induction outlines and a refresher cycle
- Safety message and toolbox talk library: 42 messages, scripts and letters including 12 ten-minute toolbox talks
- Emergency plan template with a one-page summary for every exit
- Worked example pack: twelve weeks at the 120-person Brightway warehouse, from the first hazard walk to the closed investigation
- AI prompt pack: 31 tool-agnostic prompts grouped by step, each with what to paste in and what to check
Cheat sheets
- Hierarchy of controls card and incident response decision card
- 20 safety programme mistakes to avoid
- Safety regulator notes by country for 9 countries, correct at October 2026
Calendar and import
- 12-week programme build and annual cycle calendar: 73 events for Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar (ICS)
- Safety programme task board import: 54 tasks for Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira (CSV)
When you have worked through it, you will be able to…
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
- Write a one-page safety policy your most senior person has read, and set up a committee with floor representatives that meets monthly
- Run a hazard walk with a mixed group and build a hazard register with before-and-after risk ratings
- Score risks on a matrix with scales written in your own words, band them, and act within the timeline each band sets
- Choose controls up the hierarchy, write one-page safe work procedures and run permits for the dangerous jobs
- Induct every starter, contractor and visitor before work begins and keep a training matrix that flags who is due
- Inspect in layers and keep one action tracker with owners, due dates, overdue flags and verified closures
- Make near-miss reporting easy and safe, investigate incidents by timeline then causes, and decide regulator reporting on the day
- Report six leading and lagging numbers to leadership every month and run an annual audit and management review
Know your starting point. Prove your progress.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
Frontline Safety Leadership Judgment
Take the assessment →AssessAll assessmentIncident Response & On-Call Judgment
Take the assessment →AssessAll assessmentRisk, Probability & Statistical Thinking
Take the assessment →JobularyHow a Jobulary development plan works
Make it a growth plan →A taste of Chapter 4
The hierarchy of controls, as described by NIOSH in the United States and used in safety practice worldwide, ranks controls from most to least effective: eliminate the hazard; substitute something less hazardous; engineer the hazard away from people with guards, barriers, ventilation and interlocks; use administrative controls such as procedures, training, signs, rotation and permits; and finally personal protective equipment. The further down the list, the more the control depends on a person doing the right thing every time, and people are tired, distracted and new. Most weak programmes live at the bottom of the hierarchy: signs, training and PPE, because they are cheap and quick. Strong programmes push every High and Extreme hazard as far up the hierarchy as the budget allows, and treat PPE as what is left over.
The honest comparison
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting out | A generic policy downloaded and framed | A policy the boss reads aloud, a roles and committee charter, and three commitments that cost nothing |
| Finding hazards | A consultant's folder written once | A walk sheet with category prompts, a register with reference numbers and photos, updated weekly |
| Risk assessment | Every hazard scored Medium so nobody has to act | Scales in your own words, bands with act-within days, review triggers and overdue flags |
| Controls | Signs, a training session and high-visibility vests | The hierarchy asked in order, procedures for the people doing the job, permits and a PPE issue record |
| Incidents | 'Operator did not look where he was going' in the accident book | A five-minute report anyone can make, a timeline-first investigation, five whys or a fishbone, actions pushed up the hierarchy |
| Numbers | Days since the last accident on a sign | Leading indicators you control, LTIFR with its limits, a dashboard and a one-page monthly summary |
| Country rules | US-only assumptions or none at all | Dated regulator notes for 9 countries with the official source to check |
Made for you if…
- Operations, plant and site managers who have been handed safety on top of their real job
- Warehouse, distribution and logistics leads running forklifts, racking and two shifts
- Owners and general managers of manufacturing, food, trading, service and clinic businesses with 10 to 500 people
- Quality managers extending an ISO 9001 way of working into health and safety
- HR and admin leads who keep the training records and the accident book
- Newly appointed safety leads and committee members who want one method and one set of files
Probably not for you if…
- Large companies with a safety department and a certified ISO 45001 system already running
- Anyone who needs a legal opinion, a regulator filing done for them or a certification (this kit is educational)
- High-hazard industries such as mining, offshore, nuclear or chemical process plants that need specialist engineering assessments
Built by trainers, tested in real rooms.
Bodhih Training has designed and delivered corporate programmes since 2008. Bodhih Pro Kits package what works in those workshops into a guide plus the exact tools we use, so you can apply it the same day without a facilitator in the room.
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Start with the quick-start chapter, then the main spreadsheet or planner. Most buyers use something from the kit the same day.
The next near miss is coming. Have the programme ready before it does.
Open the Start Here map, type your site into the Settings sheet and book the hazard walk. Whether you begin with the e-book this evening or the policy with your managing director tomorrow, the first hour is already planned.
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The Workplace Safety Programme Kit: FAQs
Read the free guideAlready bought? Resend my linkHow do I set up a health and safety programme from nothing?
Start with leadership: a one-page policy the most senior person signs, named roles and a small committee. Then walk the site and list hazards, score them, choose controls, train people, inspect on a rhythm, make reporting safe and review the numbers monthly. The Start Here map in the kit lays out the eight steps with the file to open at each, and the 12-week calendar paces the build.
What is the hierarchy of controls and why does it matter?
It is a ranked list of ways to deal with a hazard, from most to least effective: eliminate it, substitute something less hazardous, engineer it away from people, use procedures and training, and finally personal protective equipment. It matters because the lower levels depend on a person doing the right thing every time. The kit's hierarchy card and the Actions sheet make you record which level you chose.
How do I do a risk assessment at work without a consultant?
Judge two things for each hazard, how likely harm is and how serious it would be, on scales you have written in your own words with examples from your site. Multiply, band the result, and act within the timeline the band sets. Involve the people doing the work. The kit's Risk Assessment Form, calculator and Risk Assessments sheet handle the scoring, the bands, the review dates and the overdue flags.
Does the kit cover my country's safety law?
It teaches good practice that regulators worldwide expect and keeps country specifics in one dated sheet, Safety Regulator Notes by Country, covering India, the UK, the US, the UAE, Singapore, Australia, Kenya, Nigeria and the Philippines, correct at October 2026, with the official source to check. It is educational, not a legal opinion; check your national safety regulator and a qualified safety professional whenever a decision touches the law.
Is this an ISO 45001 certification kit?
No. The kit follows the plan-do-check-act loop that ISO 45001 and regulators' guidance share, described in our own words, and it builds the records a certification auditor would expect to see. Certification needs the standard itself, a certification body and usually specialist support. The kit gets a small or mid-size company running a real programme first.
What is LTIFR and should a small company track it?
The lost time injury frequency rate is lost-time injuries per million hours worked, or per 200,000 hours in the US convention. Track it because leadership, insurers and customers ask, but manage with leading indicators such as inspections completed, actions closed on time and near-miss reports, because in a small company one injury can double the rate. The Monthly KPIs sheet calculates both kinds.
How do I get people to report near misses?
Make it easy, safe and visibly useful: a card and a box where people pass, a written promise in the policy that honest reporting is never punished, a thank-you, and a board that shows what was reported and what was done. The kit includes the reporting promise script, a near-miss report page and a toolbox talk on reporting.
Can I use AI tools to write my risk assessments and procedures?
Use them to draft checklists, talks and first-pass procedures, to spot patterns in anonymised incident descriptions and to rehearse an investigation interview. A person who has walked the site rates every risk, closes every action, decides what is reportable and signs every permit. The prompt pack and Appendix B of the e-book set out the rules.
How do I measure my starting point before I begin?
Three AssessAll assessments map onto this job: Frontline Safety Leadership Judgment for you and your supervisors, Incident Response and On-Call Judgment for whoever handles the day of an incident, and Risk, Probability and Statistical Thinking for the people who will score the matrix. Take them in your first week and again after the first quarter.
How do I turn the gaps into a development plan?
Jobulary builds a development plan from the gap between a role's demands and the person's current strengths. Pair it with the AssessAll results and the committee's first-quarter review to plan training for supervisors, area owners and first aiders.
What do I get, and in which formats?
19 files: the e-book as PDF, two Excel workbooks that also open in Google Sheets, 4 fillable PDF form packs, 6 Word templates, 4 printable cheat sheets, an ICS calendar and a CSV task board. Download once, keep forever, and use with your own team.
What is the refund policy?
Digital kits are non-refundable once downloaded, except for corrupted files not fixed within three working days, duplicate charges or failed delivery. Write to solutions@bodhih.com and we will put it right.
How much does The Workplace Safety Programme Kit cost?
₹999 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $29 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How do I get the files after paying?
Instantly. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. Download each file separately or everything in one ZIP.
What software do I need?
Any of the usual tools: Excel or Google Sheets for spreadsheets, Word or Google Docs for templates, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Xodo or GoodNotes for the fillable PDFs, and Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar for the calendar plan.
Can I get a refund?
Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Can my company buy this for a team?
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
