Injecting entertainment into annual safety retraining
Medical Environment Update, June 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.
“I researched this for about six months,” says Terry Jo Gile, MT(ASCP), MA Ed, president of The Safety Lady, LLC, in North Fort Myers, FL. “The bottom line is safety training is boring. You need to make it fun and interesting. Because safety officers are usually doing it on a part-time basis, they need to invest in some tools that can make that job interesting as well as fun for their colleagues.”
Gile has designed and developed several computer-based games that will meet the training requirements for many OSHA subjects.
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