How to break the boring, text based, legally obligated health & Safety Training. Deploy a training materials product using our domain expertise in health and safety.
Show and tell is a friendly information-sharing technique. Trainiac based an innovative instructional design solution for Highveld Steel and Vanadium on a similar educative approach. Highveld is committed to optimum safety training, with focus on staff returning from leave. Old text-based instruction fulfilled legal obligations, but as a caring employer Highveld sought optimum understanding and the safest possible workplace.
How? Trainiac tailor-made a picture-based solution that allowed workers to show what safety precautions applied to specific risk situations and then tell their peers in their own words what needed to be done. Depictions drew on Highveld’s existing Cast Iron Rules relating to workplace risks (issues such as protective clothing, safe materials handling, etc). Various snapshots of true-to-life operations were printed in medium size communication maps, handy for laying on a desk as the centre-piece for group discussion. Icons were then developed relating to specific Cast Iron Rules and were placed as props on the pictorial sheets.
Two sets of maps were prepared showing safe and unsafe working practices. Learners in groups of four worked through a set of scenarios before reporting back to a larger group of their peers, showing their grasp of the subject by placing the correct icons on the visuals and explaining why the icon was appropriate. Smart implementation enabled rapid deployment. Trainiac trained 15 Highveld trainers in the new approach and these trainers took show and tell to the workers. Highveld has a legal obligation to re-induct specific staff categories in the safety basics, but this fun, participative approach was extended to all staff. Show and tell has a telling effect. Highveld’s Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate is now falling.
