The Importance of Safety Training
Workplace safety training is as vital as workplace safety itself. It enables the management to ensure a safe and healthy work environment. It also helps the employees to recognize safety hazards and correct them. It enables them to understand best safety practices and expectations. Safety training is vital for employees with regard to understanding of safety practices related to their jobs.
ASC Board Member Rob Ward, Health & Safety, Steele Auto Group
The training on safety norms and programs will make the employee confident to react to the situations when a problem or issues arises. The safety training will give a brief lesson on the things what to do and what not to do etc. Therefore, safety training is very important and mandatory for all employees for their safety.
Training provides the workers with possibilities to gain technical knowledge and to learn new skills to do certain jobs. Training is equally essential for the existing as well as the new employees. It sanctions the new employees to get familiarized with their jobs and also increase the job-related knowledge and skills.
The outcomes of safety training are as follows −
- To supply job related knowledge and skills to the employees and to arm them with the ability to protect themselves against unintentional incidents.
- To reduce damage or loss to non-human factors like equipment, machinery.
- To communicate skills among the employees regularly so that they may learn quickly.
- To bring about adjustment in the attitudes of the employees towards fellow employees, manager and the organization.
- To lessen the number of incidents by providing safety training to the employees.
- To make the employees handle the materials, machines and equipment effectively.
– Contribution by Rob Ward, CRSP, Health & Safety at Steele Auto Group