6 Suggestions for More Effective Orientations

To get the best results from your safety orientation program:

1.    Make expectations clear so that employees realize right from the first day that safety is a number one job priority, that safety performance will be evaluated along with other aspects of job performance, and that those evaluations will affect raises, promotions, and so on.

2.    Administer a pretest to find out what new employees know—and especially what they don’t know—about key safety hazards and practices in your organization. Then at the end of the initial orientation period, give a posttest to find out what the new employee has learned and what you need to go over again.

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3.   Use hands-on demonstrations to make sure that your new employees understand the correct procedures completely and can perform them flawlessly.

4.   Provide a written safety checklist that covers safety rules, procedures, and precautions. Encourage them to post the checklist at the workstations and to refer to it as they work.

5.   Buddy new workers up with a seasoned employee who has a good safety record. Buddy them up for at least a couple of weeks, or until you’re convinced that it’s safe for the new worker to go solo. A buddy can help the new person understand the importance of following the rules taught during orientation. A buddy is there to catch mistakes and correct unsafe behavior.

6.   Follow up on initial safety orientation by monitoring performance closely and asking and answering a lot of questions during those first few weeks and months to make sure you’ve gotten the safety message across.

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Safety Training from Day 1

If you need safety orientation training for new employees as well as ongoing safety and health training materials for all employees, you’ve come to the right place.

Unlike many training solutions available on the market today, BLR’s Employee Training Center courses are routinely reviewed and updated to reflect changes in federal regulations or best practices. Each training course is developed by BLR lawyers, industry experts, and instructional designers who have experience across a wealth of industries, topics, and compliance areas.

Courses keep participants interested with engaging audio, built-in exercises, and key points to remember. At the completion of every course, individuals take a quiz designed to test for competency in all the course material presented. Quiz results and course completion times are automatically recorded.

Every course can be tailored with supporting and custom documents. BLR provides supporting documents for courses that include complete slide show notes and the answer key for the included quiz. As the administrator, you have the option of displaying uploaded documents and requiring review before the session begins. This is especially useful for company policies or worksite-specific information. Supporting materials can be added, edited, or removed at any time.

With only a few minutes’ setup, you company will have a complete Web-based training program with professionally developed courses, employee testing capabilities, and systematic documentation of employee training sessions and scores. And remember, BLR® Employee Training Center courses can be delivered at individual employee desks, in computer centers, at training kiosks, or even in a classroom.

No wonder BLR® Employee Training Center  was named "Best Workforce Training Solution" by the Software Information Industry Association. It can help you launch a cost-effective and successful employee training program.

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