• Exposure to hazardous materials and substances
• Use of heavy equipment including conveyors, shredders, and balers
• Constant vehicle traffic including rail, heavy trucks, and customers entering and leaving the yard
• Moving equipment including forklifts and cranes
• Weather-related dangers like heat and cold exposure, or precipitation

Understanding these risks and having a comprehensive training program in place to safeguard your employees, is critical to ensuring the safe and productive operation of your facility.

KPA’s Subscription to Safety Platform delivers a complete safety training program designed to educate your employees on how to avoid risks at your recycling facility to help prevent injuries and fatalities.

The Subscription to Safety Platform includes a yearly subscription to 12 safety videos produced and delivered to your organization monthly. The 12 videos are designed to satisfy most OSHA annual safety training requirements.

This engaging training is developed for scrap metal recyclers using a mix of interviews with injured workers, accident animations, near-miss recreations, and hazard recognition exercises. We film in our clients’ plants on a regular basis and recreate many of their actual accidents and near-misses. This training is provided to hundreds of metals recycling plants including 8 out of the top ten recycling companies. And the training titles are translated to 18 different languages.

KPA’s team has extensive experience in the steel industry, has been working with ISRI for over 5 years, and are considered a worldwide leader in safety training developed specifically for the scrap recycling industry.

Sample Courses

Additionally, you’ll receive training specifically developed for Scrap recycling businesses covering topics including:

Course development supports best practices in the field, using the ADDIE model of instructional design—the standard guideline for building effective online training

KPA’s training is purpose-built to help your organization reduce:

• Safety incidents and near misses
• OSHA recordable injuries
• Direct/indirect costs
• Lost workdays

And improve:

• Safety culture and certification rates
• Outcomes of audits and self-inspections
• Workplace productivity and financial performance
• Reputation

Plus, effective training is more than a safety imperative. It’s also how top-performing organizations maximize worker morale, productivity, and retention. Train your employees the right way and they’ll reward you with their loyalty and their best work.