Suggest polices employers can put in place to prevent harm from the possible hazards in jobs?

The Federal government has already spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours developing, documenting and publishing policies that relate to work place safety. All an employer needs to do is reference OSHA, NIOSH, EPA etc. to find out what relates to them and what does not.

You can always institute field safety training, but the reality is that hiring and maintaining a work force of competent, literate, common sense employees is the easiest and most cost effective way of preventing injuries in the work place.

On a personal note, as a former job site superintendent I literally spent hundreds of hours training, and training, and training, and fining framers, electricians, plumbers and more in an effort to get them to (1) think before they act (2) slow down and think before they act and (3) use some common freaking sense. Most injuries or deaths that I came across or heard about in construction were serious contenders for a Darwin award.

Polices?

Hire literate individuals.

Can you please use spell check?