Under the IIPP standard, when must an employer provide safety training to employees?

Explanation

Section 3203(a)(7) names six occasions: when the programme is first established; to all new employees; to employees given new assignments for which training has not been received; when new substances, processes, procedures or equipment introduce a new hazard; when the employer is made aware of a new or previously unrecognised hazard; and for supervisors, on the hazards their crews face. Not one of them is a date. An annual refresher (a) is common practice and is neither required nor sufficient, and an injury is not a trigger either - by then the hazard has already found someone. The tailgate meetings in section 1509(e) (c) run at least every 10 working days and satisfy a communication duty, not the training duty. A probationary period (d) appears nowhere in the safety orders.