We are often engaged to create a program around health & safety in the workplace – the mining, manufacturing and energy sectors come to mind. In the recent edition of Fabricating and Metalworking magazine (It never ceases to amaze me how many publications are out there) – Phil la Duke writes about what’s wrong with safety training and what to do about it.
Clear advice on using “action verbs” to set objectives, determining criteria for success and establishing measurement parameters is given. There are some interesting practical tools and a focus on engagement and brevity, given the average adult’s attention span. All good factors that make picture based learing and interaction a valuable tool in the training toolkit.
Lastly the article focuses on the compliance issues we face in safety training and how that can destroy a program before it starts.
The entire article is found here.
