SHE training trends and developments, with Ian Cooke of NEBOSH

Today's Guest

Ian Cooke is the Head of Corporate & Consumer services at NEBOSH, and has an extensive background in health and safety, education, risk management, and finance.

Ian joins us to discuss health and safety training, how it's been done in the past, and how's it changed over recent years.

We also talk about the future of training, including micro-learning, virtual reality, and the gamification of education.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-cooke-04b22288?uk

You'll learn

• How to create effective training sessions.
• Ways to make safety training engaging and inspirational.
• How learning styles and educational messages have changed in recent years.
• Different ways to measure the impact of safety training.
• How corporations can get their internal programs and training endorsed.
• The future of training and education.

Resources

• NEBOSH
• Seven Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell
• NEBOSH Endorsed
• NEBOSH Corporate Services

In this episode, we talk about:

[01:50] Why SHE professionals need appropriate training.

[04:10] The challenges of creating effective training content.

[07:30] The importance of policies being simple and understandable.

[08:36] Recent changes in how educational messages are being delivered.

[11:24] The speed at which people now engage with content and how to work with short attention spans.

[13:25] How to inspire people with safety training.

[14:25] How NEBOSH is involved with safety training.

[16:20] Different ways to measure the impact of safety training.

[20:22] What NEBOSH Endorsed is and how it helps companies gain external recognition.

[25:11] The future of micro-learning and the gamification of education.

[27:00] The future of virtual reality.

[28:54] The shift from risk to opportunity.

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Quotables

• 18:17 - "Just improve numbers, even if you only affect 10 percent of works compliance in putting a safety hat on it's still better than it was."
• 28:31 - "We have to stay relevant because businesses will look at the value safety adds back into the business and the effectiveness it gives not just as a tickbox, but actually from a quality perspective, from a performance perspective, from a lost-time perspective."