What is Safety Education?
Education: The term 'educate' originates from the Latin 'Ed-u-cer-e' (ey-doo-ker-ey), which means 'that which leads out of ignorance.' Education is anything that brings us out of ignorance and improves our knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs).
DuPont - The Wrong Way vs. The Right Way
John F. Rekes, PE, CIH, CSP, says it well: "Education is a process through which learners gain new understanding, acquire new skills, and/or change their attitudes."
Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on an individual's mind, character, or physical ability. In its technical sense, education is how society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another. (Wikipedia)
Training: Rekes goes on to describe training as "a more specialized form of education that focuses on developing or improving skills. While training incorporates educational theories, principles and practices, its focus is on performance. The goal of training is for learners to be able to do something new or better than before."
Is Your Training Program Effective? Occupational Hazards, August 1999
The outcome: The educational process can be quite complex, and learning usually takes place on many levels. An educational program can be successful even if the learners can't do anything new or different at the end of the program. On the other hand, a training is not successful unless the student can demonstrate knowledge, skills, and abilities (SKAs) necessary to do something.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
1-1. What is the basic goal of training?
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