Energise your health and safety training

Course Overview

Many people attend health and safety training only because they have to, and do so with an expectation that it will be boring and unenlightening. Don't let your training be like that. With good planning and the right mix of training resources you can ensure that your delegates will enjoy your health and safety training and, more importantly, remember the key messages.

This workshop will explore simple techniques for planning effective training sessions and delivering memorable and entertaining training. It will also offer a challenge to some of the more traditional approaches to health and safety training. Whether your background is in health and safety or in training, this programme will give you a mass of new ideas and resources that you can start using immediately. It will be a day well spent!

Audience

• Safety trainers
• Health and safety professionals
• Training managers
• HR managers
• Supervisors and managers responsible for training staff in health and safety

Whatever type of health and safety training you deliver - management-focused training such as risk assessment or policy setting; general awareness training; or specialist training such as COSHH, first aid or manual handling - this seminar will provide inspiration and new ideas.

Skills Gained

This workshop will help you:

• Avoid boredom in your situation (for both you and your trainees!)
• Design effective presentation material
• Deal with resistance and confrontation
• Develop new and creative ways to deliver the health and safety message
• Engage your trainees in the subject
• Introduce variety, fun and challenge into your training
• Have people queuing up for your courses!

Course Outline

Setting the scene

• The role of creative training
• Making messages memorable
• Appealing to a range of learning preferences
• Keeping delegates involved
• Keeping trainers fresh
• Motivating learners to carry key message back into the workplace and take ACTION
• Creating an environment for training – how to get the most out of your training room and use it to reinforce your messages
• Encouraging learning
• Relaxing participants
• Reducing distractions
• Reinforcing messages
• Practical tips
• Innovative icebreakers – making them work for you
• How to involve and engage your audience from the start

The nature of health and safety training

• The aims of health and safety training – making sure the focus is on the key issues
• Making a difference in the workplace
• Improving health and safety
• Protecting staff and others
• Perceptions and barriers to learning – the attitudes that stop health and safety messages getting across

Planning for success

• Identifying and setting objectives for health and safety training – how to make sure your training addresses the issues it really needs to
• Pointers for structuring effective training sessions
• Simple planning tools – making sure your training is well structured
• The ‘4MAT’ system
• Mindmapping
• Session plans
• Cards
• PowerPoint
• Training packs
• Post-its
• Others

Catering for all tastes

• Understanding and using learning preferences to make your messages get through to everyone
• Visual learning styles
• Auditory
• Kinaesthetic
• More extensive multiple intelligences
• Balancing the use of different training methods to make your training interesting and varied
• Making health and safety relevant to individuals
• Stimulating interest and encouraging discussion

Creative resources

• Transforming standard presentations into creative activities
• Finding inspiration – how to get new and exciting ideas to transform your training
• Turning ideas into effective training materials
• Creating activities that will work as a learning experience as well as being fun
• Choosing the right training methods for different groups
• Using training to influence behaviour
• Making your training memorable

Keeping up to date

• Accessing information
• Sources of training materials and resources – what is available and where to find it

Putting your skills to work

• Action planning to improve your training Resource - exchange

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