We’ve got another in a series of articles related to safety training in the July issue of Professional Safety, the official magazine of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE). The series of articles provides tips for better safety training, and takes as a starting point some key parts of the ASSE/ANSI Z490.1 standard on effective EHS […]
As you may remember, I’m part of a group of people helping to create the upcoming ANSI/ASSE Z490.2 standard on “virtual occupational safety, health, and environmental training” and I’ve been writing periodic blog articles with updates on the status and little behind-the-scenes views of how a standard is created. I wrote an earlier article that explains Z490.2 […]
This is our third and final daily summary of the ASSE’s Safety 2017 conference. You can also read our summary of ASSE Safety 2017 Day One and ASSE Safety 2017 Day Two. Here’s a quick overview of some of the presentations I was lucky enough to catch on Thursday. Feel free to use the comments section at […]
Back in October, 2016, OSHA created a final version of their new guideline for safety and health management programs, titled Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs. Around the same time, they published a helpful website full of additional materials related to best practices for safety and health programs. In the article below, we’ll review the […]
There are many ways to make better paper manufacturing training materials, and as a result make it easier for paper manufacturing workers to gain the knowledge and skills they need to perform their jobs well. And that in turn makes the paper manufacturing companies those people work for more productive, efficient, and profitable. One way is to include […]
The human brain is amazing. And so are the human abilities to learn new information and skills, remember them, and later retrieve and use them when it’s needed. But if you’re involved in training and/or learning and development, you also know it’s not all that easy. And one of the big problems is that people tend […]
Hello readers, viewers, and listeners! We held a live webinar recently and wanted to make it available in a recorded, on-demand version for you. You can view our free, recorded Evaluating Online Safety Training webinar at our Webinars page. The webinar lasts for just about an hour and covers the following: What is online safety […]
Want to know how to design, create, and deliver better safety training at work? Effective safety training? The kind of safety training that has a real effect on incident rates, driving them down? That contributes to a healthier, safer work environment? We’ve got a pretty simple, six-step formula for success for you to follow in this […]
In this article, we’re going to walk you through six steps of evaluating different online safety training solutions–this includes online safety training courses, online safety management management systems (typically known as a learning management system or LMS), mobile apps and mobile safety training, and the online safety training providers. You can use this as a […]
What are your thoughts about online safety training? Do you think you believe any online safety training myths? If you’re like a lot of folks, you’ve got some specific ideas about online safety training. Some of those may be spot-on. But others may be a bit off-target. Maybe even myths. We’re going to take a closer […]
We just completed attending, presenting at, and exhibiting at the recent Western, Pulp, Paper, and Forest Products Safety and Health Conference in Portland, Oregon (December 2016). A triple threat–how about that! First off, a thousand thanks to Oregon OSHA and everyone involved in planning, organizing, and putting on the conference. Here’s a list of other […]
In this article, we’re going to return to and continue our look at occupational health and safety management systems. An occupational health and safety management system is often known as an OHSMS, and this is now the fifth article in the series. (We’ve listed and linked all the articles in the series at the bottom of […]