Training is about assessing the skills of the learner with interaction. Any educator with a good teaching degree can tell you that. In safety education, the requirements to train employees differ from company to company. I’ve seen, for example, companies that train OSHA or DOT hazardous materials courses to their employees with minimum tools such as HAZWOPER video awareness presentations and questionable online safety courses.The main deficiency of these educational programs is the lack of personal interaction with the employee.

Usually, these companies and their employees require a safety remediation program to improve and apply thinking skills in safety, which are essential in adult learning. A greater understanding of accidents in safety is due to deficiencies in knowledge, employee skills, reasoning, action, problem identification, and considering alternatives.

If your company develops good safety policies in training requirements, the benefits are conmensurable with the profits and employees satisfaction. Among the safety benefits, I can think of, employees become better workers with the following safety traits:

• Habitually inquisitive
• Self-informed
• Open-minded
• Honest in facing personal biases
• Prudent in making judgements
• Orderly in complex matters
• Diligent in seeking relevant information
• Proactive instead of reactive
• Enhanced intellectual integrity

Maybe it’s time your company develops the necessary complex competition skills to stay in business. If so, make an appointment and I will assist you.