The 3 Biggest Mistakes Companies Make with Health and Safety Training

Why it Happens, and How to Fix It

Hey there,

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Safety First Journal.

Hope you all had a great Easter weekend and are ready to dive into the week.

Let’s start with a quick reality check:

The Health and Safety training that 99% of companies provide is not as effective as it could be.

As safety professionals, how often do we see employees get injured as a result of not following procedures that they have been explicitly trained on? In my experience, it happens all the time. For whatever reason, the training was not retained, was ignored, or was not considered relevant by the employee.

It’s not for lack of trying. Employers want to help. They want their training to be effective, and sometimes they may even have a sense that their training is somehow missing the mark, but they don’t know why or what to do about it. Fortunately, though, there are better ways to present Health and Safety training…