Effective and fun safety training is possible even for the safety director of a small company, who manages to deliver quality, cost-effective training that lives up to his company’s slogan “Safety Always.”
For Jerry McGlynn, safety director for McWilliams Electric Co., bringing training in-house was a strategic decision. The family-owned business of about 90 employees calculated what it was spending to send workers out for training and decided to take training inside.
McGlynn, who earned certification as a safety training supervisor and construction health and safety technician, was put in charge. Among other cost-effective training techniques:
- McGlynn regularly visits jobsites, focusing especially on areas of concern, including any raised by the general contractor. He uses this information in future training.
- All supervisors attend a quarterly safety meeting where they receive required training and discuss safety and health issues.
- McGlynn uses online training as a backup in case employees are not able to attend live sessions.
- At the conclusion of a training session, participants are asked to write down safety goals and lessons learned, place the sheet of paper in an envelope, and address it to themselves. McGlynn mails these to workers’ homes about a month later to remind them of what they have committed to work on.
- A game such as Safety Jeopardy is incorporated into quarterly employee safety meetings. Popular prizes, including tickets to sporting events, are earned when employees demonstrate their safety knowledge.
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To help train employees in a broad range of safety and health topics, including hearing conservation, savvy safety professionals have for years relied on BLR’s 7-Minute Safety Trainer. This essential training resource allows you to provide concise, memorable training easily and effectively in just a few minutes. Materials are ready-to-use, and each session supplies a detailed trainer’s outline as well as a handout, quiz, and quiz answers to get your points across quickly—and cost effectively.
All told, this “trainer’s bible” contains 50 prewritten meetings covering almost every aspect of safety you’d want or need to train on, in a format designed to be taught in as little as 7 minutes. Major topics include:
- Confined spaces
- Electrical safety
- Fire safety and emergency response
- HazCom
- Machine guarding and lockout/tagout
- Material handling
- PPE use and care
- Housekeeping/slips, trips, and falls
- And dozens more
Just make as many copies as you need of the included handouts and quizzes, and you’re ready to train.
Equally important is that the program ships new meetings every quarter to respond to new and changed regulations. This service is included in the program price, which averages just over $1 a working day. In fact, this is one of BLR’s most popular safety programs.
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