This last article in our five-part series on auditing your safety and health program according to OSHA's Program Evaluation Profile offers consultant Ray Colvin's thoughts on training, the final PEP component, and on scoring your overall program. Colvin and his wife, Rosemary, are the owners of Safety Training Dynamics in The Woodlands, Texas.

These practices - along with any mandatory regulatory training - become your training or learning objectives, which are written into your training plan. Your plan should document the methods used to communicate or teach learning objectives, such as lectures, videos, workshops, hands-on activities, booklets, a combination of approaches, and so on, explains Colvin.