From Knowing to Doing: Maximizing the Impact of Employee Safety Training

For years, safety training has meant putting employees in a classroom, giving them information and expecting them to act on it. But what employees know about safety and what they actually do are often very different. This 60-minute session on employee safety training effectiveness tackles that gap.

How content is developed, delivered, supported and received matters as much as the content itself. You'll learn the REP approach: making information make sense (Rational), showing employees what's in it for them (Emotional), and creating a work environment that reinforces the training afterward (Physical).

The session also shares tips for keeping employees engaged and coaching positive behavior change long after training ends.

• Recognize common myths and misconceptions about safety training
• Distinguish compliance training from behavioral change training
• Apply the rational, emotional and physical elements of the REP approach
• Keep employees engaged during safety training
• Coach and reinforce safe behavior after training ends

• Myths and misconceptions about employee safety training
• Compliance training versus behavioral change training
• REP: the rational, emotional and physical approach to training
• The rational element
• The emotional element
• The physical element
• From knowing to doing: turning what employees know into what they do

Organizations spend a lot of time, money and energy on safety training, yet many treat it as a box to tick, even though it can be the difference between a safe and an unsafe act. Making training more engaging and effective doesn't take huge effort, just attention to a few things that matter most.

This session is for safety directors, risk managers, personnel directors, HR and anyone who delivers safety training to employees.

• Safety Directors
• Risk Managers
• Personnel Directors
• Human Resources and Anyone else that is involved in providing Safety Training to Employees

Michael Melnik is an occupational therapist with a master’s degree in exercise physiology. He is owner and president of Prevention Plus, Inc. and The Energized Approach.

Over the last 30 years Michael has shared his message with more than 750,000 participants around the world. Michael has been a consultant at Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Coca Cola, Pet Smart and many others. He speaks regularly at numerous national, state and local associates and corporate events and is the author and talent in several award-winning videos that are used by thousands of companies.