Hello, friend! And welcome to another Convergence Training blog post with a free checklist that you can use as part of your company’s health and safety efforts.
This time, the checklist is for machine guarding, and in particular OSHA general industry machine guarding compliance.
Read on for more information and to download the free machine guarding checklist.
And, we’ve got more free downloadable checklists on other safety topics here.
If you’ve been following recent happenings at Convergence Training lately, you may be aware that we can now offer to you our Vector EHS safety management software application.
If you’d like to learn more about Vector EHS, you’re in luck. Our partners at Industry Safe, who created Vector EHS, recently did a demo webinar and we’ve got a recording of it for you below.
Also, feel free to check out the recording of our recent webinar on OSHA recordkeeping & reporting and stay tuned for the arrival of a free guide to OSHA recordkeeping and reporting (we’re working on it now).
Let us know if you’d like to learn more about the Vector EHS safety management software we’ve got available for you.
Our Vector Solutions partners Industry Safe and RedVector recently held a webinar explaining OSHA reporting & recordkeeping requirements–as well as giving a quick demo of how to do some of this with VectorEHS, the safety management software made by Industry Safe that we sell here at Convergence Training.
Check out the recording below to answer your OSHA reporting & recordkeeping questions and let us know if you’ve got any questions for us.
Also, check back here shortly, because we’re currently creating a print-based guide to OSHA reporting & recordkeeping that you can download for free and it will be done soon.
Hope you found that helpful! If you’d like to learn more about the Vector EHS safety management software, check out this recently recorded demo webinar.
As happens twelve times a year, the month has changed. And in a like-minded effort to keep up with and note lunar motion, our parent company Vector Solutions has published their monthly round-up of articles from the blogs of different Vector Solutions business units, including your friends here at Convergence Training.
This most recent round-up includes articles published in November, 2019 and includes the following:
If we’ve sparked your interest, check out the November, 2019 Vector Solutions Blog Round-Up.
In a recent discussion with learning researcher Dr. Will Thalheimer, we discussed four common learning evaluations models and mentioned that, in addition, Dr. Thalheimer had recently created his own called LTEM (which he “workshopped” with other leaders in the field and which he’s now iterated 12 times).
In the discussion below, Dr. Thalheimer explains his LTEM learning evaluation model.
We’d like to thank Dr. Thalheimer for taking time to talk with us about this and for all of his contributions to workplace learning, including his work on smile sheets, spaced practice, conference presentations, the effectiveness of elearning, evidence-based training & learning myths, and lots more.
If you’d like to watch the recorded video, we’ve got that for you immediately below. If you’d prefer to read the transcript, that’s below the video. Enjoy and share your thoughts in the comments section.
In this new installment of our ongoing LMS Basics article series, we’ll answer a common question: can you take training data from one learning management system (LMS) and automate the process of migrating that data to a different LMS?
We’ll give the answers to your questions below. And know we’ve got a few other LMS-related articles that in this series that may be of interest to you, including:
Read on to learn more about migrating training data from LMS to LMS.
If you’re new to occupational safety and health regulations, OSHA and the OSHA regulations or standards may be unfamiliar to you and perhaps even confusing.
To help demystify things, we’ve written this installment in our series of articles titled OSHA Basics to explain to you what OSHA means by “general industry” and what the OSHA general industry occupational safety and health regulations are.
And before you begin reading, know that we’ve got a free OSHA General Industry Compliance Guide for you, too!
Thanksgiving day! A time to reflect on all our good fortunes and be thankful. A cherished opportunity to enjoy the company of not only our immediate family but our extended family too. A time to eat a wonderful meal, all expertly cooked and artfully served, while enjoying the company of all.
Well, that’s how it works sometimes, for some people. More power to them, right?
Other times, though, Thanksgiving doesn’t go quite according to plan. To prepare for those instances, you may want to consider some of the following titles from our online workforce training and online safety training libraries.
Read on for some tips and chuckles. And despite the tongue-in-cheek approach below, we truly DO wish you a great holiday.
If you’re an employer subject to OSHA’s 1910 General Industry regulations, you’re going to appreciate the free Guide to OSHA General Industry Compliance that we’ve prepared for you (and that you can download at the bottom of this article).
Now, you’re right to get excited, but we also want to remind you of what you already probably know: although this guide will HELP you comply with the OSHA 1910 regulations for general industry employers, it’s not a guarantee. You’re going to have to take site-specific circumstances into consideration, plus OSHA regulations can change, etc.
But you’ll definitely find this guide helpful for complying with the general industry regulations. So go ahead and download it now!
We also have written up three blog articles for training materials we offer that will help with these requirements. To look into that, check the following articles:
Hope you enjoy the general industry compliance guide and let us know if you’ve got any questions.
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As a company focused on helping companies improve workplace performance, we’ve got a lot of interest in techniques intended to help solve problems, be more creative, and innovate more. For example, check out our articles on learning organizations, design thinking, facilitating change, learning teams, and innovation.
And that’s why we asked our good Dr. Stella Lee to have a discussion with us about hackathons (you may remember Dr. Lee from our earlier discussion on disruptive technologies in L&D).
Thanks to Dr. Lee for telling us what a hackathon is, sharing with us some reasons to hold a hackathon, and giving us specific tips on how to hold a hackathon based on her own personal experiences doing so (pus she shared some great resources for learning more!).
You can listen to our recorded discussion immediately below or, if you’d prefer, we’ve typed up the transcript below that.
If you’re a safety professional, you probably know that ladders are involved in a lot of safety incidents at the workplace. And that’s why we’ve created a free portable ladder OSHA general industry compliance checklist for you to download at the bottom of this article.
In addition to the free portable ladder checklist at the bottom, you might also find some benefit from these materials we’ve got for you related to portable ladders:
And we’ve got more free downloadable checklists on other topics here.
Continue reading to download the portable ladder compliance checklist (it’s at the bottom of this article).
Dr. Will Thalheimer is of the most respected learning researchers out there. And that’s especially true when it comes to issues regarding learning evaluation.
We were excited to be able to talk with Dr. Thalheimer about four common learning evaluation models, and we’ve got the recorded video for you below. If you prefer your learning evaluation information in written form, just scroll down for the transcript of our discussion. And if you’d like to read other discussions we’ve had with Will, click these links to learn more about spaced practice, the effectiveness of elearning, smile sheets, and learning myths v. learning maximizers.
Many thank to Will for participating in this discussion on learning evaluation and for everything he does. Please be sure to go off and check out his other materials and offerings at his website. And when you finish this discussion, know that we had a follow-up in which Dr. Thalheimer explained his new LTEM learning evaluation model as well.