Providing Employees With Powerful, Personalized Safety Training Online

Online safety training reduces injuries and saves organizations the expense of legal costs, compliance violations, and worker’s compensation. It also promotes safe work practices and protects clients’ wellbeing.

Unfortunately, employees usually dread the very thought of safety training. They think it’s boring, and at times, stressful. However, it is a requirement of all employees because they need to be prepared for work-related emergencies as a part of their job duties.

That’s why online safety training is the way to go. Online safety training can be made engaging and even entertaining. It can be presented in a variety of ways so that learners of all types can retain the information. Rather than teaching for hours and hours and then giving one big test to see if employees remembered everything that’s been taught, online safety training can provide little quizzes throughout to keep trainees engaged and to remind them what’s being taught at intervals that lead to greater long-term retention.

1. Include real-world scenarios

   EchoPoll allows the use of all types of content, including embedded videos within a PowerPoint-type presentation. Instructors can include videos of real-world scenarios that are tied to the training’s goals and objectives. By designing online training simulations that demonstrate proper processes and procedures, instructors can show employees exactly what to do in certain situations. They can also outline the consequences of not following proper protocols in ways that may be entertaining, but also make an impact. EchoPoll’s ability to combine different types of media makes these real-life scenarios easy to present.

2. Teach problem-solving skills

   EchoPoll allows instructors to embed quizzes in presentations, so once they have demonstrated the proper procedures or processes, they can test their employees’ problem-solving skills. They can present a scenario and test how the employee would react in a particular situation. The instructor can then choose whether to show the trainee the correct answer, let them know whether they got the answer right or wrong, or have them wait until the training is complete to find out how well they did. This can discourage answer sharing if trainees are taking the training together in the same location.

3. Tell stories

   Storytelling helps make online training relatable and personal to each employee. Through stories, employees can connect information to real-world applications. Stories are also a memorable way to teach the benefits of online safety training because they show how the main characters use the information to overcome challenges. Trainees can then copy the favorable behaviors. The trick to storytelling is to connect with trainees on an emotional level so they can see things from the narrator’s perspective.

4. Utilize microlearning

   One thing employees dread about safety training is the huge time suck it often ends up being. With EchoPoll’s online, personalized safety training, you can create short presentations to highlight each aspect of safety training and have trainees focus on one topic at a time. With EchoPoll, you can easily set a schedule of completion that matches each employee’s or department’s needs. It is also better for retention to have trainees focus solely on one topic for short bursts of time. You can easily add employees to the modules they need when they need them and give them an appropriate deadline. This makes online safety training as efficient as it is effective.

EchoPoll is the most robust, flexible online learning platform for your company’s online safety training needs. Schedule a demo today to learn about all the fascinating features that make EchoPoll the perfect tool for your safety training program.