Response to the following must be at least 200 words each question:
1. In the past year at Carter's Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing Company, eight employees experienced minor injuries (cuts) from handling metal parts. One employee lost 15 workdays after getting debris in his eye while grinding, six employees lost two days each due to back strains, and four welders were treated for minor burns. Select one of the injury types, and discuss the possible performance problems. Suggest one or more solutions for each performance problem.
2. Imagine you are faced with developing a safety training class for a multi-lingual, multi-generational, and multi-ethnic workforce. Would you try to incorporate everyone's needs into a single class, or would you try to develop separate classes to meet the needs of each demographic? Explain your choice.
3. What is active learning? How could active learning principles be applied in a safety training course on machine guarding?
4. What is peer learning? Describe how peer learning could be used in classroom training and in computer or Internet-based training.
5. Discuss five possible financial benefits of safety training. Which one do you think creates the strongest argument? Which one is the weakest?
6. A large research hospital is considering a new computer-based training course for lab safety. The total cost of the hospital's current training program is $80,000 per year. If the new training program will reduce these costs to $60,000 per year, what is the maximum acceptable cost to initiate the program to reach the break-even point within three years? What is the return on investment for that scenario?
7. How can the management of an organization contribute to a safety and health training program? What types of things can safety managers do to help guide management's role in safety and health training?
Response to the following must be at least 75 words each question:
8. When designing and delivering training to adults, what are six key principles to keep in mind?
9. What is the difference between education and training?
10. Why is it important for health and safety training to be integrated with an organization's safety and health program?
11. Where does training fit within safety and health problem solving?