How to Better Engage Your Employees During the Safety Training Process

Your safety training programs will need to evolve alongside your company, making adaptation to new technologies or regulations a priority in order to stay ahead of any potential hazards. Engaging your employees will be equally as important as designing and updating these training plans, however, because their compliance is crucial to carrying out safety precautions as written. Here are some tips on increasing engagement and boosting your employees’ interaction with safe workplace behavior.

1. Keep it Simple. If your training program and its language are too difficult to understand, your employees won’t gain anything from them. Breaking the program down into small sessions that convey key messages in full without any accessory information will also make the process easier to teach.
2. Get Everyone Involved. Sitting through a dry training presentation isn’t any employee’s favorite activity, so try livening up the process through interactive activities! If workers can discuss the program as it is presented to them or try hands-on demonstrations, they will feel more involved in learning the material and be better equipped to carry out the safety tips they’ve learned when they get back to a real workplace environment.
3. Cater to Your Employees. This may sound simple, but it’s a process that often gets overlooked. If you do not design a plan that is based on accessible strategies to meet your employees’ individual and overall needs, they will not be able to carry it out well and your company’s overall safety and morale will suffer.
4. Contextualize the Program. Improve understanding of your new regulations and the content of your safety training by explaining their background. If employees do not understand why a program or specific new skill is important, they may be less willing to integrate it into their daily routine. Make sure that your training includes background and information on the context of new strategies as well as information on how to carry them out.

Following these four tips alone should help you to craft a better safety training program, but it’s important to be able to track your company’s progress and stay aware of what training your employees have received. Safety software is the easiest way to do this on a companywide level. You can learn more about Quantum’s safety software and individual training modules online here, or fill out an inquiry form to talk with us at this link.