The medical profession is concerned that the overuse of antibiotics is causing strains of bacteria to become resistant and patients to be less receptive to the most-used medications. The same thing can happen to safety when training is overused or misused.
A group of young people in Philadelphia working to turn both their lives and their neighborhoods around got safety training and construction training recently, through a partnership between YouthBuild Philadelphia and OSHA.
In 1996, when a training program was developed for sales and marketing personnel from personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturers and distributors, nobody looked 20 years into the future. It started as a project jointly sponsored by the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) and the former Safety Equipment Distributors Association.
Do you think the reason why there has been a surge in accidents involving the use of cell phones while driving in part stems from vehicles having more safety features requiring less attention by the driver?
There’s hazcom training. Hearing conservation training. Any number of OSHA compliance training requirements. None have higher stakes than confined space training.
Many articles about incentives, rewards, recognition, and positive reinforcers reflect naiveté about human motivation. Have you been confused by the language discrepancies regarding these terms?
Jill James, Vivid Learning Systems’ resident safety consultant and former OSHA Safety Investigator, fills us in on how a positive relationship between supervisors and employees can decrease the number of work-related accidents.
Training management is the process in which an organization identifies training requirements, builds training programs, flags employees who need to be trained, and executes on that training.
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