A survey has shown that highest priorities for training in terms of allocating resources include: increasing training programs’ effectiveness, reducing costs, and measuring the impact of training programs – each of which online training technology would be able to address.
Our last blog discussed the importance and benefits of a strong safety culture. To create and maintain one, companies must adopt an effective safety training program. While both live and online safety training are effective training mediums that compliment and supplement each other, this blog will shine the spotlight on the rising popularity and benefits of online safety training.
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Creating a strong safety culture may take months, even years. The 2016 SmartMarket Report: Building A Safety Culture by Dodge Data & Analytics identifies 33 indicators of a safety culture and divides them into seven groups. Management commitment to safety and health is first on the list.
According to OSHA’s definition, in a strong safety culture, “everyone feels responsible for safety and pursues it on a daily basis; employees go beyond the “call of duty” to identify unsafe conditions and behaviors, and intervene to correct them.” Great safety cultures have proved to result in many benefits, including lower injury rates, increased ability to retain existing staff and attract new staff, as well as higher ROI. Dedication to safety and health does not only pertain to high hazard industries such as construction. Big companies in other sectors like Coca-Cola recognized that its success in the long run relies on ensuring the safety of its workers. Because of those benefits, safety related expenses should be deemed investments, not costs.
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