Category: Training

If you have commercial truck drivers, make sure they know the rules regarding alcohol and drug use and testing. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) works to improve safety in commercial trucking. Regulations from FMCSA apply to safety-sensitive employees who operate commercial motor vehicles requiring a commercial driver’s license. Examples […]

Keeping track of cholesterol can be confusing—but it’s crucial enough to your workers’ health to be worth the effort. September is National Cholesterol Education Month, which makes it a good time to slip a bit of wellness training into your usual schedule of safety training. Helping workers learn how to monitor their cholesterol can help […]

If you’ve got respiratory hazards in your workplace, your workers should know about spirometry testing, which helps reduce or prevent worker exposure to respiratory hazards. What is spirometry? Spirometry is a common pulmonary function test that measures how well a person moves air in and out of the lungs. Workers who inhale some types of […]

Because most workplace emergencies happen with little or no warning, you need to ensure that workers know in advance what they should and should not do in case of an emergency. They may not have time during an emergency to read the company policy for the particular emergency they are facing. Late summer can bring […]

It’s a new world of communication these days, and to keep your training current, you need to find ways to use new social media technologies in your training program. In fact, social media tools can help promote retention of training content, according to Thomas Stone, product design architect with Element K®. As the use of […]

If you haven’t considered partnering with a local educational institution like a community college to meet specialized safety training needs, you might reconsider when you hear about the benefits. One of the major benefits of partnering with a community college is that these institutions have the ability to customize training to meet an employer’s specific […]

Train your trainers to deliver training that engages, captivates, and stays with employees when the session is over and they’re back on the job. So you’ve got great content for your training session, but how’s your delivery? Bob Pike, a well-known motivational speaker in the training profession, recommends 7 strategies for designing and delivering training […]

Since August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month, it’s a great time to emphasize a lifelong commitment to eye safety, beginning as young as possible. Peek-a-boo may be one of the first games your workers remember playing as a child, which is a good thing, because we all need to get the picture regarding […]

Safety audits not only pinpoint problems, but they also encourage and maintain employee awareness of and interest in workplace safety. That makes them a great training tool. Regular, frequent, and thorough self-inspections are not only an excellent way to prevent safety and health problems, they’re also a strong and flexible training tool, according to BLR’s […]

Behind the hit TV show is a venerable tradition that is hundreds of years old. Apprenticeships have been around since the Middle Ages as a practical arrangement that benefits both new workers and established businesses. What exactly is an apprenticeship? An “apprenticeship” is a system of employee training that combines on-the-job training with related educational […]