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Will You Add? - Forklift Safety Training Videos and CBTs - They Should NOT Be Your Stand-Alone Training Solution
You’ve probably heard this, or maybe you will relate to this personally. Have you ever arrived somewhere and wondered, “How did I get here?” or “Why am I here?”Have you ever wondered if you’ve missed the boat (with your family on it)?Life is a battle that must be fought if there is to be a favorable outcome for you, as well as those around you that count the most. But often, we are fighting battles that don’t lead to a desirable outcome, a dream or an ambition realized.They are reactive wars that are based on barely surviving.Do you want to just survive or thrive?For me, thriving offers an alternative way of living that brings abundant outcomes.Let’s face it. We all have a basic survival instinct and so it doesn’t matter how tough life gets… as humans we survive. Like many people, I used to save my head off and forgo life’s “material pleasures” which by the way - have no substance.I’m talking about nice cars, houses, televisions, furniture… it’s all based on fake reality.Anyway, we struggled and battled and fought to save money so we could get ahead a bit faster. Get ahead to where?Tha
OSHA realizes that people need to have the benefit of safety training that does more than check off a box on a to-do list. Their job is keeping people alive at work, period. That's why they developed this rule. They want the assurance that a person who can react to specific needs of the trainees and the company is on hand to fill in the gaps and personally ascertain that the student has learned what he or she needs. Videos and computers don't do that. They keep plugging along. They'll talk to no one and still think they did the job well. A human trainer will look
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In many cases these media provide maximum information in a minimum amount of time. They are usually well-made, presented by articulate narrators and possess the added leisure of being able to train at will without chewing up trainers' man-hours.
But in the realm of forklift and other industrial safety subjects, they are a ticking bomb.
What many companies fail to consider when discussing the options of video training and CBTs is that workplace safety is NOT a place to cut corners. The money saved by using these methods may be far overshadowed by the cost to your business if something goes wrong. Some of the main items to consider are:
- OSHA's requirements for training on these subjects
- The liability aspects of accidents, which are more likely if training is weak
- The inability of these media to promote information retention and thereby keep people safe
Because OSHA Said So, That's Why.
Since 1999, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has required that all forklift safety training in particular (and many other equipment safety instruction requirements reflect this decision as well) must be site- and equipment-specific (operators must physically demonstrate to a trainer that they can safely operate their machinery in the exact workplace where they will do so) and training and evaluation must be done by a knowledgeable person qualified to teach adult students. Roughly translated: if you rely on a video tape or CBT only as your training program and then walk away, the first time something goes wrong (and it will), OSHA is going to take a look at your training system, deem it inadequate, and hold your company responsible.
OSHA realizes that people need to have the benefit of safety training that does more than check off a box on a to-do list. Their job is keeping people alive at work, period. That's why they developed this rule. They want the assurance that a person who can react to specific needs of the trainees and the company is on hand to fill in the gaps and personally ascertain that the student has learned what he or she needs. Videos and computers don't do that. They keep plugging along. They'll talk to no one and still think they did the job well. A human trainer will look f
If you’re anything like me, you do stupid things every day when, mercifully, there’s no one to see: tripping on flat surfaces, buttoning your shirt too quickly and putting the buttons in the wrong hole, getting lipstick on your teeth. But when you spend at least 40 hours of your week in the office, you’re guaranteed a public gaffe every now and then. I’ve perfected three failsafe moves to help you save face after a less-than-graceful workplace faux pas. Here they are in action.Face Saver #1: Act like nothing is wrongOn my third day of work at a new company, I managed to walk through three floors of my building and about six blocks on rush-hour frenzied streets, passing several police cars and at least three packed commuter buses, with the back of my skirt tucked up behind my backpack. I don’t mean that it was just hanging a little strangely — it was all the way up. And how did I discover that I had bared my flowery underwear to hundreds of people? Turns out the attractive thirtysomething businessman walking behind me wasn’t having a funny cell-phone conversation after all; he was laughing at my derriere.Despite
But in the realm of forklift and other industrial safety subjects, they are a ticking bomb.
What many companies fail to consider when discussing the options of video training and CBTs is that workplace safety is NOT a place to cut corners. The money saved by using these methods may be far overshadowed by the cost to your business if something goes wrong. Some of the main items to consider are:
- OSHA's requirements for training on these subjects
- The liability aspects of accidents, which are more likely if training is weak
- The inability of these media to promote information retention and thereby keep people safe
Because OSHA Said So, That's Why.
Since 1999, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has required that all forklift safety training in particular (and many other equipment safety instruction requirements reflect this decision as well) must be site- and equipment-specific (operators must physically demonstrate to a trainer that they can safely operate their machinery in the exact workplace where they will do so) and training and evaluation must be done by a knowledgeable person qualified to teach adult students. Roughly translated: if you rely on a video tape or CBT only as your training program and then walk away, the first time something goes wrong (and it will), OSHA is going to take a look at your training system, deem it inadequate, and hold your company responsible.
OSHA realizes that people need to have the benefit of safety training that does more than check off a box on a to-do list. Their job is keeping people alive at work, period. That's why they developed this rule. They want the assurance that a person who can react to specific needs of the trainees and the company is on hand to fill in the gaps and personally ascertain that the student has learned what he or she needs. Videos and computers don't do that. They keep plugging along. They'll talk to no one and still think they did the job well. A human trainer will look
Airlines sure. But upholstery? Hmmmm…Oil prices can affect a larger part of the economy than is usually thought of. The reality is that a large part of manufacturing (such as plastics) rely on petrochemicals to actually make their products. Upholstery is one of these industries. Many furniture manufacturers are seeing across the board increases in foam costs which are a primary raw material needed in the manufacturing of upholstery fabrics.To some people, it sounds like a repeat of the 1970s. The stock market fluctuations, the lines for gasoline (which, thankfully have abated for now), and the slow influx of alternative energy solutions make it seem like we are in a time warp. However, a lot of industries can’t switch from petrochemicals even if the alternatives’ technology was far more advanced.Industries that are staples of the economy, such as injection molding, use oil based raw materials as inputs to make common industrial items that are needed around the economy. You can’t make a solar panel into a box of garbage bags. And you can’t add hydrogen to a manufacturing process to come out with a brand new pair of sneakers.Wit
- OSHA's requirements for training on these subjects
- The liability aspects of accidents, which are more likely if training is weak
- The inability of these media to promote information retention and thereby keep people safe
Because OSHA Said So, That's Why.
Since 1999, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has required that all forklift safety training in particular (and many other equipment safety instruction requirements reflect this decision as well) must be site- and equipment-specific (operators must physically demonstrate to a trainer that they can safely operate their machinery in the exact workplace where they will do so) and training and evaluation must be done by a knowledgeable person qualified to teach adult students. Roughly translated: if you rely on a video tape or CBT only as your training program and then walk away, the first time something goes wrong (and it will), OSHA is going to take a look at your training system, deem it inadequate, and hold your company responsible.
OSHA realizes that people need to have the benefit of safety training that does more than check off a box on a to-do list. Their job is keeping people alive at work, period. That's why they developed this rule. They want the assurance that a person who can react to specific needs of the trainees and the company is on hand to fill in the gaps and personally ascertain that the student has learned what he or she needs. Videos and computers don't do that. They keep plugging along. They'll talk to no one and still think they did the job well. A human trainer will look
The world that people live and work in is complex. The behaviours and skills required to solve a simple problem are always multi-dimensional. And yet much, or indeed most, training developed and executed in corporate training programmes are linear in nature. This mismatch between the real world and the training world makes it a certainty that organisations are wasting their training dollar.Even at the simplest level of required knowledge acquisition the old fashioned “chalk and talk”, where a trainer interacts with the audience in one direction with a frightening array of slides, the content of which is the same as the words spoken, is useless.Adults learn nothing at all when subjected to this kind of training.They may be stimulated by the presentation, engaged by the graphics and motivated by the speaker, but the chance of them remembering what is being taught is very slight.So what should be included in a training programme for adults?The elements of a training programme that help adults to learn include:Being engaged in the development of the training programmeRepetition to a
OSHA realizes that people need to have the benefit of safety training that does more than check off a box on a to-do list. Their job is keeping people alive at work, period. That's why they developed this rule. They want the assurance that a person who can react to specific needs of the trainees and the company is on hand to fill in the gaps and personally ascertain that the student has learned what he or she needs. Videos and computers don't do that. They keep plugging along. They'll talk to no one and still think they did the job well. A human trainer will look
Running a home business can be one of the most rewarding experiences of ones life. In my case, doing so has allowed me to be my own boss, spend more time with my family, and gain real financial independence. When I look at how much my business has grown over the past few years, I am filled with an immense sense of achievement and satisfaction, which are things I never felt while working 9-5 for someone else.Nevertheless, having my own business is not without its challenges. I quite often have to deal with problems that hardly ever crop up in larger companies. Even something seemingly as basic as making sure my customer service phone line gets answered used to be a logistical nightmare for me -- until I started using a live answering service.Signing up with a live answering service was one of the best business decisions I ever made. By doing so, I immediately gained several real advantages over my competitors. For example, my customers can call the phone number listed on my website and reach a human operator (rather than just a recorded message) at any time of the day or night. The operator has access to a file containing basic inform
OSHA realizes that people need to have the benefit of safety training that does more than check off a box on a to-do list. Their job is keeping people alive at work, period. That's why they developed this rule. They want the assurance that a person who can react to specific needs of the trainees and the company is on hand to fill in the gaps and personally ascertain that the student has learned what he or she needs. Videos and computers don't do that. They keep plugging along. They'll talk to no one and still think they did the job well. A human trainer will look for that light bulb over the head of his or her students before moving on. When the subject is safety, OSHA wants to see far more than lip service thrown at the problem.
So you reduced the training budget by $3,000 and cost yourself $3.5 million in fines and damages. How much did you save again?
How much can one forklift accident cost you? Well, let's break it down:
1) OSHA fines can be between $7,000 and $70,000 per willful safety violation. If they visit (and after an accident, it's highly likely) and find that you have 10 forklifts and no one is wearing the safety belts on them, that's 10 fines. And those operators weren't trained properly? 10 more fines. And they all drive too fast? 10 more fines. You see the pattern.
2) Medical bills. These can get very expensive, and usually warehouse-type injuries can involve weeks or months of recovery time. The bill is getting larger.
3) Lost man-hours. You now have one or more experienced workers out of commission. Now work is not getting done. Productivity suffers.
4) The possible lawsuit. What if the person injured was hit by a forklift driven by a poorly-trained individual? Now his or her lawyer is drooling over your bank account. To make matters worse, if OSHA finds you at fault for willful safety violations, the plaintiff's legal team will have that information in hand going into court.
5) Punitive damages. At the end of the lawsuit comes the largest hit of all. This number can have many zeros at the end of it.
6) More training. Ironically, now that you have injured your experienced worker, you have to spend money to train a less experienced one to do his or her job.
So, tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands in fines, another couple hundred thousand for medical bills, a couple more in settlement, maybe a quarter of a million to several million in punitive damages, several more thousand to train a new person, and all the while productivity and morale is down. It hardly seems like you saved anything by cutting corners, does it? Would you take a gamble like that at any racetrack or casino in the world?
How people learn is as important as what they learn, to a trainer.
If you want to guarantee retention of information (and in safety train
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