ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines simple ways to develop effective health and safety training courses in house, as well as discussing the key aspects of finding external training providers. In the modern workplace, safety training should be more than just a course. It should be an ongoing process that considers more than traditional classroom learning and includes post-learning measurement. Working out what the course is going to deliver and how is fundamental, and has to be linked to the training needs analysis that identified the gap in training in the first place. The programme-scoping group should reconvene to review the feedback and agree any adjustments needed to the programme. The alternative to developing and running safety training programmes in house is to arrange for an external training provider to do it all for one. Outsourcing training is an alternative, but although it's often seen as an easier option, there are as many pitfalls with using external providers as in-house trainers.
