Safety Trainer Roles
Now, let's focus on the various roles a trainer might play. The Association for Talent Development (ATD) study, Models for Excellence, listed the following roles that trainers typically perform:
- Evaluator: Assessing the impact of a safety training program.
- Facilitator: Managing group discussions and processes.
- Counselor: Assisting employees in evaluating their personal safety competencies, values, and goals.
- Writer: Creating written learning and instructional materials.
- Instructor: Delivering safety information and guiding structured learning experiences.
- Manager: Planning, organizing, staffing, and overseeing safety training and development operations/projects.
- Marketer: Promoting safety training and development perspectives, programs, and services.
- Media Specialist: Developing audio-visual materials for safety training.
- Analyst: Identifying discrepancies between ideal and actual safety performance and determining the reasons for these gaps.
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4-2. What role do safety trainers play when they lead group discussions and processes?
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