Some employees cringe at the thought of yet another training course, but we’re here to tell you that it’s entirely possible to make health and safety fun! Acute Safety & Safety Services offers a range of health and safety training programs, and with over 100 years of combined experience, our staff have much more than just theoretical teaching to offer. Read on to learn a few tips on how to make health and safety fun, and trust ACUTE for all your workplace safety needs. Contact us today if you’re looking for more information.
Making Health and Safety Fun: Training Tips from Acute Safety
Make it relevant to the tasks workers are doing
The most important thing is to make sure trainees see the benefit of attending. In order to get people’s attention and encourage them to engage, you need to make sure the content you’re delivering is useful and relevant.
Right at the beginning of the training session, kick things off by giving a brief overview of what trainees are going to learn and how those skills will help keep them safe on the job. This can apply to any field – no matter what type of workplace you need training for, there are ways to make all types of health & safety training fun!
Health and safety fun is important but should always take a backseat to relevant education.
Encourage participation
Whatever you are teaching, try to make it relatable to the trainees by using real examples, case studies, and creative metaphors. The key here is to allow room for those in attendance to offer their experiences – they’re the ones doing this work on a day-to-day basis, and can therefore speak to the realities of the material being presented.
You can also play into people’s competitive sides – in a healthy way! Puzzles or riddles, crosswords, memory games, ordering tasks – all of these can keep your attendees engaged and on-task.
Mix things up with a game or word challenge!
Offer incentives
Trainees are traditionally more motivated to successfully complete the course if their efforts are recognized and if they have something to show for it at the end.
Let attendees know they will receive personalized certificates to mark their participation. You should also consider extra incentives such as small prizes for those who are most engaged.
People like to be rewarded for their efforts.
Use multi-media
People learn in different ways. Some prefer videos and diagrams, while others respond better to more traditional lecture format. Try to mix things up with a bit of both, using film clips, photos, YouTube and charts to bring home your point.
Music can also set the mood and get trainees energized before your session and during breaks. Play something upbeat to get them pumped up in the morning, and lower it back down to let them know it’s time to start. You can also use music during the session – soothing classical can help people concentrate while completing tasks or group work, and fun pop tunes can lighten the mood during games.
Remember to tone it down when driving home the most important points.
Plan a workplace trip to an ACUTE training session
Health and safety fun can best be manufactured in a training centre unlike any other, engineered to deliver world-class training with real tools and real hazard scenarios. That’s exactly what ACUTE has to offer – a training facility that offers immersive hazard scenarios and simulations that help your team gain experience alongside real challenges, tools, and context.
ACUTE’s training simulators offer the best and most reliable way to train staff using: confined space simulators, working at heights practical simulators, construction projects asbestos/mould abatement demonstration area, and a live residential building for rooftop/construction training.
Come see why ACUTE is Ontario’s top choice in health and safety training.
Other Simple Tips
- Keep the message as simple as possible.
- Remain positive.
- Write a personal note to participants.
- Repeat everything multiple times so that people fully absorb it.
- Try to have more than one voice presenting the information.
Trust ACUTE For Health and Safety Fun + Education
Hands-on, practical and fun health and safety training is the best way to keep employers and workers safe in the workplace! You can trust ACUTE to help your business understand your training challenges while also taking care of the most crucial aspect of a safety program: providing unparalleled tailoring and customer service.
“The best place to get trained, period. The lessons include plenty of hands on components which definitely help retain the knowledge taught within the classrooms. Above all, the instructors know their stuff, they are all extremely knowledgeable and draw upon their own experiences to help engage the class. If I could give them higher than 5 stars, I would, and I would most definitely do my training refresher courses here again.” – Ali. A
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ACUTE is located in Waterloo, Ontario, and services customers from cities such as Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Milton, Kitchener, London, Guelph, and others across Ontario.
