Injecting entertainment into annual safety retraining
Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, July 1, 2009
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Annual retraining can be a chore for employees, as well as the safety officer saddled with the ¬responsibility. As a result, training sometimes consists of employees sleeping in front of the same old training video.
But a few simple adjustments to your education program can rouse employees and make retraining entertaining for everyone, while providing useful reminders of employee safety.
Computer-based training
These days, everything is computer-based. E-mail has all but replaced snail mail, presentations are now on PowerPoint, and most of the resources you need are accessible simply by clicking a mouse.
Similar to the previous examples, annual safety training used to be a lecture or a presentation, but it’s now beginning to make a transition to the monitor as well.
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