A Quick Guide to Workplace Audits and Inspections
No matter if you are a longtime safety expert or know relatively little about the industry, you have probably experienced a safety inspection or safety audit at some point. But what exactly do these events entail and how can they help your organization? Terms to Know Before digging too deeply into the importance of audits […]
SafetySkills Adds Audits and Inspections to EHS Management Suite
As a long-time expert in occupational health and safety training, SafetySkills is known for their award-winning content, powerful learning management system and unsurpassed customer service. In 2021, they introduced SafetySkills Empower, an outcome-based training platform that caters to employees at any level and serves as an enhancement to their existing offerings. Now SafetySkills is excited […]
May Course Highlight & New Course Launches
Course Highlight: Valley Fever Awareness Valley fever or Coccidioidomycosis – sometimes known as ‘San Joaquin valley fever’ or ‘desert rheumatism’ – is a fungal infection caused by inhaling fungus spores and affects thousands of people every year. Cases of valley fever are mostly saturated in the southwest but have been recorded along the west coast […]
Up and Coming Training Technology: Motion Capture
Have you ever stopped to think about what kind of technology goes into creating employee training videos? The answer is probably “no,” but there is one technique that has come incredibly far over the years that we think deserves some attention — motion capture technology. Referred to as simply motion capture, or mo-cap, this technique […]
April Course Highlight and New Course Launches, Rebuilds, and Translations
Course Highlight: Performing Safety Audits A safety audit is a process that identifies health and safety hazards, assesses the effectiveness of the measures in place to control those hazards, and ensures compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) standards. The latest statistics show that there were just over three million reportable nonfatal injuries […]
Using SafetySkills Empower to Support ISO 45001 Implementation as an Organizational OHS Management System
Management systems are nothing new. Early systems can be traced back to the trade guilds of Medieval Europe, which developed stringent rules for craftmanship and service. To be a guild member, and receive the benefits of membership, artisans and merchants had to adhere to these rules. Guilds operated collectively, and successes and failures were shared […]
Personalized Training Using Adaptive Branching Learning Engagement (ABLE)
Unless you have spent time in the education industry, you may not have heard of adaptive learning, but you have more than likely experienced it. When you were a child, you probably read a “choose your own adventure” book where you were able to select what happened at certain points in the story. Based on […]
Incident Management: RCAs and CAPAs
For more than 200 years, since the Industrial Revolution swept across Europe and the United States, occupational safety has been on the minds of both employers and government organizations. The results, of course, have been numerous laws and regulatory bodies, including OSHA, which was formed April 28, 1971. However, all the regulations and safe practices […]
March New Course Launches, Course Rebuilds, and Course Translations
New and Rebuilt Course Titles: Sexual Harassment and Discrimination for Employees Portable Fire Extinguisher Techniques for Oil and Gas Sites Personal Protective Equipment for Oil and Gas Personnel Hot Work/Arc Welding for Oil and Gas Operations New Microlearning Titles: Ground Disturbance Awareness: Principles and Hazards Ground Disturbance Awareness: Roles and Responsibilities Ground Disturbance Awareness: Locating […]
A Look at Employee Training Two Years into a Global Pandemic
On January 7, 2020, health officials identified a new virus responsible for an unusual pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Just over two months later, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic. This virus was named SARS-CoV-2 but is commonly known as COVID-19 or coronavirus. Now, more than two years later, much of the […]
