ABSTRACT
Training for health and safety is not an end in itself, it is a means to an end. Talking in general terms to employees about the need to be safe is not training; workers and management alike need to be told what to do for their own health and safety and that of others, as well as what is required by statute. A knowledge of what constitutes safe behaviour in a variety of different occupational situations is not inherited but must be acquired, either by trial and error or from a reputable source of expertise. Trial and error methods are likely to exact too high a price in modern industry, where the consequences of forced and unforced errors may be very serious, even catastrophic.
