Safety Education
Safety education informs, persuades, and motivates students to be involved and work safely. The most important goal of safety education is to show why working safely is essential.
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Why do you think most employees don't do what they are supposed to do in the workplace? It's because they don't know why it's important to do it! Consequently, the most important thing we can do as safety trainers is to make sure our students know why working safely is important.
The KSA Education Process
What is the process we can use to make sure employees can most effectively educate to improve safety performance? We call it the KSA Education Process. It involves three basic strategies to educate employees to gain knowledge, increase their skills, and improve abilities: instruction, training, and experience.
- Instruction transfers Knowledge: This is where the educational process begins. We must know something before we can do something.
- Training improves initial Skills: Once we know something, we can focus on learning how to do something.
- Experience over time improves Abilities: Learners gain experience outside the classroom, where the "real education" occurs. Only with experience will we improve our overall performance.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
1-2. Safety instruction transfers _____, safety training improves _____, and safety experience improves _____.
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