Education and Training
The Key to Successful Safety Committees
In the last module we discussed ways to get people excited about joining and being involved in the safety committee.
In this module, we'll continue the theme of safety committee member professional development. Effective education and training are keys to making the safety committee a valuable profit center activity in your company.
Suppose you have been a member of a safety committee whose members were not properly trained. In that case, you can appreciate the benefits of effective safety committee training.
You may be a member of a safety committee right now. Did you receive any training about your role and responsibilities as a safety committee member when you joined? Chances are you didn't.
If you did, that's great. New safety committee members should be properly educated, so that they understand why their new position is so important. The purpose is to affect attitudes about the safety committee and the contribution each member can make.
Safety committees that lack effective education and training, for the most part, flounder around but rarely get much done.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
4-1. Why should new safety committee members be properly educated?
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