We’re all in favor of safety training. But even better, we’re in favor of EFFECTIVE safety training. But what IS effective safety training? What does that mean? Effective safety training is training employees understand and remember. It’s training they later apply on the job. And ultimately, it’s safety training that will decrease the number of […]
In an earlier post focusing on identifying job roles and job tasks, we mentioned the importance of creating (1) a list of the job roles at your site and (2) a list of the job tasks that people in each of those job roles have to be able to perform in order to hold their […]
What do YOU do to make your safety training at work fun and engaging for employees? Recently, we posted that simple question into a number of LinkedIn groups that deal with safety and/or EHS: “What do you do to make your safety training more fun and engaging for your employees?” A large number of safety professionals […]
Many customers come to us wondering if and how they can use online courses for the MSHA Part 46 training programs. In this article, we’re going to address those questions and then take a closer look at how to do it with one of the Part 46 training programs–New Miner. The same ideas, though, apply to the other […]
People familiar with lean manufacturing probably know the concept of value stream mapping. Value stream mapping is the process of mapping, diagramming, or otherwise analyzing your current production state and a desired, more efficient future state. The point is to map the current state, search for and identify any inefficiencies that cause waste and don’t […]
Companies put a LOT of money, time, and hard work into training their employees. New employee onboarding, job role training, succession training, compliance training–you get the picture. In many or most cases, that training includes some element of testing. People in learning and development often refer to this testing as “assessment” or “level 2 evaluation” […]
If you’re a trainer or design instructional material, your job is to train people. But what exactly are you training them? What kinds of things? If your initial answer is “stuff for work,” we can dive down a little deeper on that. The benefit of doing so is that once we realize that we train […]
We all want to motivate our learners. Motivating learners during the training so they’ll have a better chance to learn is important, obviously. And it’s also important to motivate learners AFTER the training so they’ll be more positively disposed toward the topic in general and more likely to apply the training at work. But how exactly does […]
You’ve probably heard of 5S. If so, you know it’s a method for organizing a work area to increase efficiency and productivity while reducing waste. And it’s one of the first steps that many companies make while trying to become “lean.” If you didn’t know that before, now you do. 5S can help make a company […]
Consider this scenario, if you will. You’re a training manager. Or maybe you’re someone else who is involved in training–the head of operations, or in HR, or the safety manager. You or someone else at work determines there’s a performance problem. More specifically, you think your employees may have a skill gap. What’s the answer? […]
(Note: This article is based on the newly revised, 2016 version of ANSI Z490.1.) Let’s continue our series of articles about ANSI Z490.1, the US national standard that lays out “Criteria for Accepted Practices in Safety, Health, and Environmental Training.” In this post, we’ll look at Section 4 of the standard, which focuses on how […]
We just wrote an extended blog post that explains the benefits of “chunking” your training materials and gives tips of how to do it. Click hereto read the extended article on chunking for training. Otherwise, if you’d like a high-level overview and then would like to see an example of chunking applied to manufacturing training, read on. The Bird’s […]