An effective safety training program not only affects the safety and health of the employees of a company, but it also affects the company financially. (Tuning workers into safety training, 2006). Frequent safety and health training reduces the risk of employee injury or death. By having refresher training courses on a regular basis, companies can significantly reduce the injury rate within the workplace (Ho & Dzeng, 2010). How an employee handles a hazardous situation greatly depends on the amount of education that the employee receives and how they choose to use that information based on the situation at hand (Rodriguez, 2012). For new employees, and even more experienced employees of a company, lacking crucial information about risks and safety can result in them developing habits or work practices that are unsafe. The employees unknowingly put themselves in a hazardous situation (Jacobi & O’Hara, …show more content…
In this format, employees sit in a classroom and are taught by a qualified instructor (DeSmet & Schwartz, 2010). This training is supplemented by hands-on, on-the-job training with the tools and machines that the employee will be required to use (Ho & Dzeng, 2010). However, technology has allowed workers to be trained in a more non-traditional setting. Workers can be taught safety and health related courses by using a computer and are still able to interact and/or get feedback about the information they are being taught (Press,