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Category: Train the Trainer
Using Stories During Workplace Training Sessions
Storytelling in training is gaining traction. Once thought of as old-fashioned, it is now seen as a way to effectively help learners make connections during training sessions. Storytelling has been around since the dawn of time, but now it is…
The Importance of Competency Among Workplace Trainers Explained
Sometimes when employers appoint a workplace trainer, they consider selecting workers with the most seniority, those most liked by their colleagues, or workers with strong personalities for whom public speaking won’t be a problem. Sometimes they forget that workplace trainers…
Equipment Training: How to Incorporate Effective Demonstrations
Having a workplace trainer(s) on staff is beneficial in many ways: it gives the employer greater flexibility while reducing training costs, increasing compliance, and making training-record management less complicated. Workplace training also gives you the chance to train directly in the environment in which the work will take place. This presents a unique opportunity for equipment trainers to incorporate demonstrations into their training sessions.
Five Tips to Passing a Practical Evaluation
Completing a practical evaluation can be a nerve racking experience! At OSG, we know that you want to be successful and pass — we want that too! At OSG, we are invested in your success, so we spoke to equipment…
Labeling Your Harness – What is Best Practice?
As a general best practice, the health and safety professionals at OSG do not recommend marking fall protection harnesses or writing on them at all. While some safety websites stipulate that writing on the tags only with a Sharpie-brand marker*…
The Top 5 Training Obstacles & How Train-the-Trainer Programs Can Help You Overcome Them
The virtues of health and safety training are widely known. Not only is a minimum standard of health and safety training the legislated standard, health and safety training aims to reduce accidents and incidents, and increase positive attitudes and safety…
How to Select an Effective Workplace Trainer
Written by Jenn Miller | Curriculum Development Coordinator OSG’s specific Train-the-Trainer courses, in conjunction with our mandatory Train-the-Trainer day, give participants a complete set of tools and techniques to deliver top-notch training in their workplace. One of the keys to…
5 Tips for Delivering a Successful Training Program – Equipment Edition
Seasoned workplace trainers, and workers new to the role, face unique challenges when it comes to delivering equipment-specific training. OSG’s Train-the-Trainer programs provide the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools to effectively deliver the program back at your workplace – it’s the…