Train The Safety Trainer

Due to shrinking budgets, more and more companies are turning to in-house health and safety trainers instead of outsourced training organizations. However, becoming an effective coach is not easy.

In addition to expert knowledge in health, safety and environment (which is often lacking as well), a trainer should know how to behave in public, how to train people often twice their age, how to influence established beliefs and to share new knowledge effectively. 

The use of special modern psychological technologies for adult learning significantly increases the effectiveness of health and safety training. These technologies improve memorization and increase interest in each participant of a safety training program.

They encourage participants’ motivation for using safe working practices after the training as well, that is, they have a long-term effect. A distinctive feature of these technologies, compared with classical theoretical training methods, is that they are practically oriented.

What Will I Learn?

Our Train the Safety Trainer course has 3 levels:

• ​Step 1 "Practical Trainer" – 3 days. This is a basic course for new health and safety trainers after which they will be able to prepare, start and conduct health and safety training effectively. Trainers will study the principles of andragogy and public speaking. They will learn to apply different training methods effectively, including mini-lectures, discussions, business cases, and business games as part of health and safety training. Trainers will also learn to assess the effectiveness of health and safety training provided.  
• Step 2 "Master Trainer" – 2 days. This is a course for more experienced health and safety trainers who have already passed Step 1. Trainers will be able to enhance their skills in group management and learn how to work with challenging participants.
• Step 3 "Professional Trainer" – 2 days. This step is intended for trainers who have already passed Step 1 and Step 2. This step will help those trainers who have to develop learning materials for health and safety courses. At this step, health and safety trainers will master the fundamentals of pedagogical design and learn how to develop courses correctly and make them compelling. Trainers will also learn how to create business cases, role playing and business games. Trainers will get to know more advanced rhetoric skills and group dynamics methods.    

At each step, theoretical knowledge is reinforced through a high number of practical tasks. ​You may request courses at Step 1, 2, 3 or all the three steps depending on your company’s needs and your trainers’ qualifications.

Who Is This Course For?

The course is intended for health and safety trainers, managers and specialists in health, safety and environment, corporate university staff members. 

What Is The Course Program?

Step 1. Practical Trainer, 3 Days.

Element 1. Health And Safety Training In Modren Companies: KEY Terms.

• Safety minutes, introductions, procedures, goals and objectives.

• What is effective HSE training?

• Training methods.

Element 2. Training Preparation And Organization.

• Informing participants about a training session.

• Preparation for a training session, a trainer’s ‘assault pack’ – what should a trainer always have prepared for a training session?

• Selection and preparation of the venue, equipment, seating methods, safety and security.

Element 3.  Opening A Training Session.

• Step-by-step practical techniques of a trainer’s motivated self-presentation.

• Dr. Robert Cialdini’s 5 rules of effective training. 

• Tools for getting to know participants of the training.

• Warm-Ups: quick psychological tools for encouraging active employee participation in HSE training. 

• Sharing the timing and rules of the training with the participants.

• How to get participants interested in the content of the training.

• Identifying participants’ expectations.

• Principles of andragogy and their application to HSE training.

• Participants with different psychological and physiological characteristics and interaction with them.

Element 4. The Art Of Public Speaking For A Health And Safety Trainer.

• Preparing a presentation .

• Presentation plan: logic, composition, scope of a presentation and holding an audience’s attention.

• Rhetorical devices: example, imitation, simile, extended metaphors, repetition, allegory, appeal, citation, antithesis, allusion, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, anticlimax, suspense, anacoluthon.

• Effective argumentation skills.

• Presentation delivery:

  • Voice: loudness, diction, intonation, speech tempo, pauses;

  • Behaviour: posture, gestures, non-verbal techniques, use of space.

Element 5. Active Theoritical Methods In Health And Safety Training.

• Effective use of the theoretical methods to build new knowledge and explain learning material.

• Mini-lecture and discussion: psychological rules for organizing and conducting mini-lectures and discussions, making conclusions, tips on how not to lose control.

Element 6. Active Practical Methods In Health And Safety Training.

• Procedures for tasks and exercises.

• Gamification of training, procedures for using role playing, business games and business cases.

​ Element 7. Assessment Of Training Efficiency.

• Closing a training session.

• Methods for evaluating the effectiveness of training.

​Step 2. Master Trainer, 2 Days.

Working With Audience And Managing Group Dynamics During Training.

• Conditions and techniques for effective interaction between a trainer and participants of a training session.

• Setting up training groups.

• Stages and crises in the development of a group.

• Specific nature of effective HSE training and engaging adult audience – more about andragogy.

• Specific nature of effective HSE training and engaging ‘millennials’ – the majority of working population – and keeping their attention in the world of fast-changing information and gadgets.

• Specific nature of effective HSE training for your superiors – senior managers.

• Basic skills for working with challenging participants. Most common problems.

• Working with questions and objections. Neutralizing participants’ objections. 

• Tips on keeping attention. If you audience is getting bored… Additional dynamic techniques for increasing participants’ attention span during long training sessions.

Step 3. Professional Trainer, 2 Days.

Training Development.

• The concept of pedagogical design.

• Robert Gagné’s learning principles:

  • Attracting learners’ attention, motivating them to learn, awakening their interest in HSE topics and methods;

  • Explanation of learning goals and objectives. Shaping the level of expectations for learning outcomes; 

  • Presenting new materials to focus on key moments;

  • Monitoring the learning process – focus on retaining materials in long-term memory;

  • Applying knowledge to practice;

  • Evaluation of a training session and its effectiveness;

  • Evaluation of pass rates and overall effectiveness of a training course;

  • Taking practical action.

• Objectives of a pedagogical designer – a course developer:

  • Analysis of a target audience’s needs, their competence and expectations for learning outcomes; 

  • Setting goals and objectives of learning materials;

  • Analysing and structuring materials in line with course goals and learning objectives;

  • Selecting training tools and methods;

  • Creating elements, style and visual design of the course. Using effective visualization to develop HSE courses;

  • Creating tests and tasks, tools for monitoring and gathering information;

  • Creating a course with appropriate tools or assigning tasks to team members to develop its specific elements.

• 5 stages in the development of learning materials based on the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation):

  • Analysis;

  • Design (selection of learning tools, creating a scenario or an outline for future learning materials, preparing a trial version of learning materials, evaluating and revising materials in line with course goals and learning objectives);

  • Development;

  • Implementation;

  • Evaluation.

• Guidelines for designing effective role playing.

• Guidelines for designing effective business games.

• Guidelines for designing business cases.

• Rhetorical techniques – advanced level.

• New methods of working with group dynamics – coaching techniques – helping participants to set individual goals and objectives. Creating roadmaps for participants’ self-development after the training session.

How Long Is The Course And What Is The Format?

• Step 1 "Practical Trainer" – 3 days.  
• Step 2 "Master Trainer" – 2 days.
• Step 3 "Professional Trainer" – 2 days.  

​The courses are provided for corporate groups on dates convenient for a client as

• corporate face-to-face courses at any location in Canada or the USA on a company’s premises OR  

• corporate webinar courses designed as sets of 2-3 webinars – in ZOOM for Business or MS Teams – as requested by a client.

​You may request courses at Step 1, 2, 3 or all the three steps depending on your company’s needs.

Is It Practical? Is It Fun?

The course is interactive, and it is based on the interaction between an instructor and participants; it includes a variety of training formats: mini-lectures, discussions, practical exercises in small groups, analysis of business cases, individual self-assessment, watching video materials – to ensure understanding of the materials and reinforce the learning process.

Participants will be able to put the knowledge and skills acquired during the course to practice immediately.

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be issued a certificate of completion. 

​Additional Assistance For Corporate Clients In Improving In-House Training

• We develop corporate standards for HSE competence and training.

• We conduct psychodiagnostic tests to help select trainers, instructors and mentors.

• We assess trainers’, instructors’ and mentors’ competence.