by ►Elements of Training Cycle:
►As per OSHA training guidelines, seven chronological steps are suggested to complete a training cycle.
►These are the basic elements of any safety training programme.
- Determine if training is needed: the first step is to determine whether a problem can be solved by training. All skill deficiencies are not solvable through training and some other tool may be required. This step includes need of any improved (revised) training programme.
2. Identify training needs: analyze the worker’s duties, and what he or she needs to perform the job more skillfully and safely.
3. Identify goals and objectives: a list of specific job knowledge and skill deficiency derived from step-2, will tell employers what workers should do, do better or stop doing.
4. Design and develop training programme: after listing precise objectives and goals, learning activities must be identified and described. Type of training will be decided based on the training resources available to the employer, the kind of knowledge or skills to be learned and whether the learning should be oriented towards physical skill or mental attitudes.
5. Conduct the training: now the training programme should be conducted by (1) providing overviews of the material to be learned and (2) relating each specific item of knowledge or skill to the worker’s goals, interests and experience to be learned.
6. Evaluate programme effectiveness: by knowing trainee’s opinion, supervisor’s observation, work place improvement, hazard reduction etc, it should be checked whether the training has accomplished its goals.
7. Improve the programme: based on feed back from the workers, supervisors etc, and from evaluation and observing the gap, the training programme should be improved (revised) as per need.
