Getting hired and starting a new gig is exciting. We’ve all been there. New opportunities open. New, exciting challenges present themselves. But it can also be stressful, intimidating, and even a bit overwhelming. There’s a lot to learn in a hurry, and some new hires are starting at ground zero. Fortunately, there’s a lot that […]
The state of Washington recently held their 65th Annual Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Conference. The conference was great. Congrats and thanks to the organizers and staff for putting together a great event, and of course kudos, props, and high-fives to all the attendees, exhibitors, and presenters (and to anyone else involved that if I’ve […]
It’s not easy to develop effective occupational environmental, health, and safety training. If you’ve been doing it yourself, you know this. And what makes it worse, many times the people tasked with designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating that training are experts in certain areas under the “EHS umbrella” but don’t have a lot of expertise […]
In an earlier blog post, we took a quick introductory look at some connections between comic books and eLearning. And in that article, we promised to follow up with a second article that focuses on the classic book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud. And we also promised that the second article would focus on some lessons […]
Comic books, the movies that they spawned, and graphic novels are a massive part of the American cultural scene these days. For example, adults now freely admit to reading comic books. It’s no longer a dirty secret people hide. Do you read them? I do, and have since I was a kid. We’ve seen serious […]
If you’re a manager at a manufacturing company, you know it’s important to deliver training to new hires as part of their new employee onboarding. And that’s also true if an experienced worker is moving to a new site, work area, or into a new role as well. But you also probably know that onboarding […]
Want some easy tips to follow to make training that sticks? To create training workers will remember and apply on the job? To help you attain the business goals you’re trying to reach? Although inspired by Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point and written for a popular reading audience instead of exclusively for training professions, […]
If you’re in Safety or EHS, you know it’s important to deliver safety onboarding training to new hires. And that’s true if an experienced worker is moving to a new site, work area, or into a new role as well. But you also probably know that delivering safety onboarding comes with a number of challenges. […]
Want to know the hidden secret to developing effective safety training materials? Actually, there’s no hidden secret. But there ARE some well-known, tried-and-true methods, and they’re documented in ANSI Z490.1, the national standard of Criteria for Accepted Practices in Safety, Health, and Environmental Training. In this 30-minute, recorded, on-demand webinar, we introduce you to ANSI Z490.1, […]
We believe the best way to provide safety training to your workers is to use a blended learning solution, mixing and matching the different types of training (instructor-led, field-based OJT, video, e-learning, written materials, social learning, webinars, etc.). And that’s no surprise, since we write about it a lot, but also since it’s recommended by ASSE/ANSI […]
At many manufacturing companies, employees enter the workforce in a role reserved for new hires, then work their way through an organized line of progression from their first job to the next job and so on throughout their careers. As a result, it’s helpful to have a plan in place, and some tools to use, […]
Training within manufacturing organizations has undergone a lot of changes over time, and there are plenty more changes coming. In fact, even if you’re not aware of it, changes are happening right now. And the infrastructure that will lead to even more changes is coming soon. If this seems interesting to you–and if you’re in […]