Safety training: An overview of current needs |
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| Authors: | Sue Cox |
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| Affiliation: | Course Director, Diploma in Health and Safety Management, Centre for Extension Studies , University of Technology , Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11, 3TU, UK |
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| Abstract: | Abstract This article considers the changing nature of the demands and pressures faced by today's training practitioner. It emphasizes that safety is no longer a matter of ‘tin hats, safety guards and first aid boxes’, and explores the problems created by new legislation and rapidly changing technology. It also points up the skills required by the safety practitioner in effectively dealing with his/her organization, and the constraints placed on them by social and economic factors. The article reviews the training implications of this developing scenario. |
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| Keywords: | safety new demands training legislation |
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