Josy is a training developer who has worked with some leading firms across Canada and abroad to create professional development programs, including health and safety training. Josy recently shared the following insights regarding best practices for health and safety training.
Considerations
Some unique considerations are that most employees want to get it done quickly and don’t care (about quality) but this is training that also needs to be done and done right. That being said, most companies use Captivate or some similar tool so that they can incorporate quizzes, images, sound and not have to pay a developer to do so. Also, Captivate can be SCORM compliant so a company that has CMS/LMS can keep track of who has done the training or not.
Accessibility issues: it’s better not to use Flash for accessibility (reasons) and always have ALT tags for any images and have videos subtitled.
Technologies
I don’t know about educational technologies that can be used to enhance this type of training, but case studies, videos and immersive situations would definitely be a benefit.
In-House vs. Third Party Solutions
In house pro: don’t need to explain as much, can be done cheaper, more control in house con: might take more time, depending on organizational structure third party pro: might have a more professional look, depending on in-house developers
third party con: less control, might take more time.
