Due to limitations in online training, employers may end up paying more for employees to learn than intended. Here are 7 reasons why hands on training is better than online and how ACUTE Services offers choice training. Click here to contact us today.
Online Health and Safety Training Limitations
Last year in Ontario local businesses were fined over $5.7M for violations of Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development regulations settled in court, and in some cases resulted in conviction. Businesses in Ontario should not be losing money on incidents that could have been prevented with hands on training. Employers often provide basic levels of health and safety training online. Though this satisfies regulatory requirements and may be less costly up-front, it is often insufficient when an employee needs to acquire, retain, and apply the concepts taught. This is particularly true for organization requiring employees to be well-versed in operating machinery or whom often are exposed to hazards. An article from the Association of Talent Development notes with annotations:
“The amount [of money] spent on the training course may not provide the commensurate amount of learning retained and experienced by participants. When crunching numbers, you may have to pay twice to retrain your staff or yourself, which makes the affordability and savings from virtual training insignificant.”
Our past client can also attest to the benefits of hands on training:
“We have used Acute Environmental & Safety Services Inc. for many years and our personnel always come back well trained, energized and bringing lots of ideas. They are provided with substantial and in-depth knowledge together with challenging opportunities to put into practice what they have learned into our field operations.”
– Dante, Environmental Service Company
7 Reasons Why Hands On Training is the Best
The time-tested hands on mode of training remains the most effective way to ensure your team is prepared and empowered to tackle hazards and issues within the workplace. Here are 7 reasons why hands on training is still the best.
1-Practice and Simulation Reinforces Valued Behavior: Live training provides the best environment for cultivating your employee’s practical experience. There is a reflexive mechanism that is reinforced when intellectual and applied learning informs one another. This helps ensure that the content is not only cognitively stored, but also actively used and becomes increasingly part of an instinctive employee’s behaviour. Kinesthetic learners who typically enjoy hands on work are particularly adept at picking up safety procedures and routines when given an opportunity to engage with real simulations or practice.
2-Interactive Q&As Increases Learning Quality: Learners often have many questions that can’t help in the training of other individuals. Asking questions to a live trainer which is typically not provided for online courses is a great way to help round out an employee’s learning experience and clarify any misunderstands. Asking questions that reflect past experiences of the trainee allows for a deeper connection and can trigger exciting moments of insight to apply immediately in the workplace.
3-Tailored Training Content Provides Relevancy: There are many industry nuances that come with intermediate/advanced levels of health and safety training: particularly around waste management and construction industries that require significantly different approaches and content for training. One size certainly does not fit all when an employer desires to ensure the utmost in safety for all its employees.
4-Experienced Instructors Go Beyond Book Knowledge: Having an experienced instructor who has been in the same shoes your employees have will help students identify scenarios that they may not have encountered. Through real life illustrations, instructors help ground technical knowledge with real world applications. Experienced instructors serve as a mentor for your employees during training and also help to accelerate employees along the learning curve.
5-Passionate Trainers Motivate Learners : A trainer’s excitement and enthusiasm replicates itself in participants in training. Passionate teachers, create passionate pupils, as indicated here in a study conducted by the National Communication Association. Hands on training provides a level of passion that cannot be matched my online delivery.
6-Enable Collaboration for Deeper Insights: When students are given opportunities to interact with a course together, they often come out with a more well rounded and deeper appreciation of knowledge being transmitted. Online training only instructs a room of individuals rather than a team that actively problem solves and raises new perspectives to the topic at hand.
7-Ability to Manage Audience Engagement: With online training many factors like mental fatigue, content grasp, and even simple things like sound quality may go undetected and hamper the development process. Hands on training allows for instructors to speed up or slow down the content based on the response of the class. Instructors may even call timely break out sessions to help participants process or apply concepts: rather than to continue on if participants become overloaded with information.
ACUTE incorporates each of these 7 reasons to ensure that your team gets the best in class health and safety training. We believe employee training and development are critical factors to an organization that remains competitive. Acute Services offers training facilities for client training courses (when paired with an Acute course).
What Does ACUTE’s Experienced and Passionate Team Bring?
- Open Door Instructor-Student Partnersh
ip: ACUTE’s training services emphasize client participation. Staff want to build a relationship with a client and serve as a touchstone for advice anytime moving forward. - Serving Your Team and Industry: With a vast array of clients in manufacturing, construction, health, academic, and government sectors, ACUTE brings the best safety practices from across the spectrum to your workplace.
- 100 Years Combined Experience: ACUTE provides comprehensive health and safety training, on-site safety services and consulting services. With over 100 years of combined experience, our company staff offer more than theoretical or abstract ideas. ACUTE offers solutions.
Contact us today for quality training in your workplace or on-site at ACUTE’s proven training facilities!
Acute Safety & Safety Services is located in Waterloo, Ontario and services customers from the cities such as Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Milton, Kitchener, London and Guelph as well as a large list of other cities from across Ontario and North America.
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