Arranging and fulfilling training needs
Fulfilling training needs means helping people to learn how to do something, telling people what they should or should not do, or simply giving them information. Training isn’t just about formal ‘classroom’ courses, but providing methods for which they can learn everything they need to perform their job role safely and effectively.
Arranging WHS training helps you to:
➢ Ensure that people who work for you know how to work safely and without risks to health.
➢ Develop a positive health and safety culture, where safe and healthy working becomes second nature to everyone.
➢ Meet your legal duty to protect the health and safety of your employees.
Fulfilling training needs:
➢ Will contribute towards making your employees competent in health and safety.
➢ Can help your business avoid the distress that accidents and ill health cause.
➢ Can improve staff efficiency, confidence and happiness.
➢ Can help you avoid the financial costs of accidents and workplace ill health, such as damaged products, lost production and demotivated staff.
Safety training needs should follow careful consideration of processes, activities, hazards and risks and include your WHS consultative mechanisms (such as WHS committee) in discussions.
Steps to arrange training:
➢ Create a plan to cover all the training needs in your workplace.
➢ Work out what the aims of the training are and over what timescale.
➢ Plan what sort of training would be most appropriate, and so who should be responsible for implementation.
➢ Plan how you will monitor and review the effectiveness of the training.
➢ Plan for the specific needs of your workforce, such as language and literacy needs by utilising interpreters, translated information, multilingual signs, literacy training or appropriate methods where necessary.
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Methods of training
WHS training can use various methods, such as:
➢ Group or individual exercises.
➢ Explanations and demonstrations.
➢ Role-playing.
➢ Case studies.
An organisation’s WHS training program should involve developing skills to enable all in the workplace to carry out their health and safety responsibilities.
WHS training does not just involve specific hazard training; WHS is part of all workplace training, just as WHS is an important part of ongoing management.
Health and safety training could include:
➢ Induction training
➢ Supervisor and management training
➢ On-the-job training
➢ Specific hazard training
➢ Work procedures and skills training
➢ Emergency procedure training
➢ First aid training.
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