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Training

Training that ends in a decision workers can act on.

Three courses built on one method, from a 90-minute awareness session to two days for the people accountable for an AI program, plus train-the-trainer. Participants learn to find AI in a work task, describe the hazard specifically enough that someone can act on it, and distinguish a real control from just shifting responsibility to an individual.

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The courses

Three courses, one method.

Courses run for single-role groups by default, since sessions cover reporting and recourse. Delivered in person. Pricing and scoping on request.

Tier 1 · Awareness 90 minutes

AI in the Workplace

A short session for anyone who works alongside a system that decides, sorts, scores, schedules, or writes. No technical background needed.

Who it is forStaff at any level in public agencies, private employers, nonprofits, and unions. Office and professional roles, frontline and field roles, supervisors, and managers.
Participants leave able to
  • Locate AI in a work task, including where it sits inside another system and is not visible
  • Distinguish a real control from one that shifts responsibility to an individual
  • Document an incident and know when to stop or escalate
Workbook they keep Scored scenario task 30-day follow-up
Tier 2 · Applied One day

AI in the Workplace: Analyzing Hazards and Controls

A hands-on day learning the AI job hazard analysis. Participants practice on scenarios from their sector and on a system they bring from their own work, and leave able to run the analysis again.

Who it is forProgram and operations managers, compliance and HR staff, team leads, and safety and health professionals. Also worker representatives, trainers, and stewards.
Participants leave able to
  • Map a work system and identify where AI enabled decisions enter it
  • Rank hazards by consequence, exposure, and detectability
  • Design a control that acts on the system, or state plainly what prevents one
Practice AI job hazard analysis Escalation route 30, 60, 90 day plan
Tier 3 · Specialist Two days

AI in the Workplace: Hazards, Controls, and Assurance

Two days for people accountable for an AI program. Participants practice building a hazard register, choosing controls, and planning how to check that the controls work, using cases from their sector.

Who it is forRisk and governance leads, program directors, and compliance officers, along with occupational and environmental health and safety professionals and industrial hygienists. A working background in risk, governance, or safety is expected.
Participants leave able to
  • Build and maintain an AI hazard register covering several systems at once
  • Write controls specific enough to be adopted into workplace governance, procurement conditions, or contract language
  • Separate controls the organization can implement through work design from controls that require the vendor to change the software
Practice hazard register Controls Verification plan

Modules covering machine safety, interlocks, and control validation are delivered with a subject matter specialist alongside the CAWS facilitator.

Capacity building Two days

Train-the-trainer

Prepares your own trainers to deliver AI in the Workplace to your workforce without CAWS in the room. For organizations that have run the course. Trainers leave with a completion record, which is not a certification.

Who it is forPeer trainers, safety representatives, and training staff who already facilitate adult learning.
Trainers leave able to
  • Deliver AI in the Workplace as written, using the facilitator guide, scenario cards, and workbook
  • Run the hazard spotting lab and the control ladder, and handle disclosures and mixed-role rooms
  • Score the performance task and run the 30-day follow-up
Facilitator kit Observed practice teach Completion record

Want the analysis done on one of your own systems rather than taught? CAWS runs the AI Job Hazard Analysis with your team and writes it up. See Work with CAWS.

CAWS is not affiliated with any vendor and does not promote, sell, or certify any AI product or tool. CAWS does not act as an auditor and does not approve or clear any system.

How this fits the rest of the work

Training is also a listening site.

What participants surface about the systems running in their workplace feeds the evaluation criteria and the open research CAWS publishes. Engagements include a follow-up conversation, booked before the session is delivered.

The method

An AI job hazard analysis, extending the job hazard analysis already used in safety work. It locates AI in a work system, identifies who is exposed, and selects controls using the hierarchy of controls. Notice, explanation, challenge, and correction are treated as controls to be designed in, not as policy language.

Availability

Open for pilot delivery through fall 2026.

Pilot engagements

A delivery of AI in the Workplace, or of Analyzing Hazards and Controls where the group is ready for it, at a reduced pilot rate. Includes participant materials, evaluation results for your group, and the 30-day follow-up.

Pilots are delivered in person. CAWS is based in Maryland and covers the Mid-Atlantic without travel costs. Travel elsewhere is scoped into the engagement.

Pilot engagements are conducted under a written agreement providing for a structured debrief and for CAWS to use anonymized aggregate learning in openly published work. Individual responses remain confidential and are reported only in aggregate.

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Get in touch

Tell us who needs the training.

Say a little about the workforce, the systems already running, and roughly how many people. A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether a course fits.

hello@centerforaiworkersafety.org

Or use the inquiry form on the home page.

CAWS wants to hear from workers directly. If you are a worker and not here on behalf of an organization, write anyway.