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Here are 5 tools that everyone conducting safety training should be using to make your safety training more engaging:

1.       Videos

Consistently recognized by safety professionals as the most engaging safety meeting format, the adoption and usage of videos during safety meetings is gaining ground.   As a light refresher for the group between scheduled quarterly safety meetings, or assigned individually as a task for completion, using videos helps to reinforce core concepts in a way that is not dry, repetitive, or overdone.

In fact, 73% of safety trainers say videos are the most engaging tool they employ during safety meetings.  And if they could, nearly half of those individuals say they would like to spend more of their resources on videos in the coming year.

2.       eLearning

eLearning is an engaging, easy and effective way to get employees trained on basic safety hazards.  Different than typical safety training, eLearning allows trainees to complete standardized safety training on core hazards, but at their own pace, so they can concentrate on fundamentally understanding core components without the distraction of a group training environment.

Best of all, eLearning allows organizations with several locations to standardize training and helps to simply the role of managing remote training within organizations.

3.       Pictures and Videos

The last time you gave a safety talk, it was probably not the first time your trainees had been told to be aware of the given issue.  It’s also probably why nearly 60% of safety trainers report that keeping employees engaged during safety meetings is their #1 challenge.  Before you jump into your next toolbox talks, ask yourself “have they see this before?”  If the answer is “yes,” then considering using a more visual, interactive approach.

Use pictures and videos to encourage workers to “Spot the Safety Violation” and then draw upon these inferences to tie the training into existing safety hazards.  Especially (and perhaps unfortunately)  for topics like PPE, and Ladder Safety, and Fall Protection there is an abundance of material to show displaying clear violations of safety protocols.

4.       Interactive Quizzes

Whether they’re on paper or online, quizzes are still the best way to test understanding and comprehension of safety training material. What they don’t have to be is bland and boring.  Sometimes asking the same questions but in a visual way, or presenting the materials as a group quiz is all the difference you need to encourage employee participation.

5.       An OHS Management and Recordkeeping System

Recordkeeping is nothing new for safety professionals, it’s been a part of the job as long as regulatory compliance has been mandated.  However in today’s day and age, there are online resources and apps that can do this much more efficiently than pen and paper, and even the long-standing Excel spreadsheet for tracking.

Tools like SafetySmart provide an easy way to track safety meeting attendance, and who has completed a training course. In addition to that, they also allow administrators to pull reports and easily identify worker participation in meetings and safety trainings.

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