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Workplace Online Safety Training Programs
Join the tidal wave of organizations rapidly shifting to online safety training. It’s safer, smarter, and more efficient. HSI supports every level of critical workforce development, with online courses for safety, compliance, soft-skills, emergency care, and craft trades.
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HSI’s instructional teams have refined their processes over the years to produce content that is engaging and memorable regardless of the modality in which the content is consumed or the topic of instruction.
Depending on the target modality of the training, target audience, and delivery method, HSI’s instructional designers leverage a variety of techniques to ensure the content is memorable. These include:
- Relatable stories and pop-culture references – Content makes use of relevant scenarios and timely references to pop-culture and other events in a way that makes the learning relatable.
- Reduced Jargon – To keep run times short and focus the learning on the key objectives, unnecessary references to standard bodies, laws, and regulations are omitted from videos, text, and animations wherever possible.
- High level of interactivity – Many courses are created with frequent click/explore/engagement models and practice exercises. This drives the learner to engage with the content and retain more of the material presented.
- Visual movement and variety – Videos and animations are produced in a way that encourages saccadic eye movements, which have been shown to draw increased focus and improve memorability.
- Condensed Material with refresher/micro-learning reinforcement – Where not otherwise driven by regulation, HSI’s Safety and Compliance courses average between 10 and 20 minutes in length with shorter micro-learning options available for refresher and reinforcement use. Professional development courses are designed into collections of micro-learning courses running 5-10 minutes each.
- Teaching Exams – Compliance courses use randomized exams pooled by learning objectives to ensure all learning objectives are assessed. Optional explanatory feedback for exam questions turns missed questions into another teaching opportunity. Alternately learners can be forced to review the related course material for failed learning objectives before re-attempting an exam.
The result of this thoughtful design can be seen with HSI’s safety and compliance training. Here, the true effectiveness of the program is best measured through reductions in accident, incident, and near-miss rates. The effectiveness of HSI’s programs can be seen in two case studies:
Harmon Construction – Reduced Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) from 4.4 to 1.7
Complete Mechanical Services – Reduced TRIR from 3.9 to 1.5
Comprehensive Workplace Safety Training Programs
Enhancing workplace safety begins with a well-rounded approach to training. Here’s a look at some of the most popular online safety training topics and the variety of formats available to suit your needs:
Our Most Popular Safety Training Topics:
- Hazard Communication
- Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP)
- PPE Fundamentals, Eye and Face, and more
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Fire Extinguisher Safety
- Back Safety and Injury Prevention
- Heat Stress
- Emergency and Fire Preparedness
- Electrical Safety: General Awareness
- Driver Safety
- Ladder Safety
- Lockout Tagout
- Hearing Conservation
- Confined Spaces
- Machine Guarding
- Hand and Power Tool Safety
- Office Ergonomics
- Pandemics: Slowing the Spread
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See the difference! HSI Workplace Safety Training vs. Competitors
Engage workers to increase knowledge retention.
Interactivity is the key to engagement, connecting employees with critical concepts. We believe online safety training shouldn’t be boring, and we prove it every day.
Each of our courses creatively deploy training devices like storytelling, proven to enhance knowledge retention and immerse employees in the experience.
That’s why HSI’s online safety training is more effective, memorable, and fun.
Kristina D.
Safety & Security Manager, Seacor Island Lines
"The software is very easy to use considering the wide variety of employees at our business. The multi language option is key with our workforce. I like how there is the ability to upload your own content to supplement the training lesson. Most importantly, the support team is very quick to respond."
Conduct a Safety Training Audit
Conducting a safety training audit helps you pinpoint strengths, uncover gaps, and streamline your overall safety program. Start by defining clear objectives, such as verifying regulatory compliance or improving incident response. Next, gather documentation (training records, incident reports, feedback from staff) and evaluate how effectively these align with established safety goals. Use this information to identify areas for improvement, develop actionable remedies, and track progress over time. Finally, establish a regular safety training audit schedule to maintain consistent oversight and ensure that your safety training initiatives continuously evolve to meet new challenges. HSI has created this tool to help you identify your safety training needs.
By keeping your safety training programs tailored to your organization’s specific risks and ensuring they comply with evolving regulatory standards, you’ll proactively protect workers, minimize operational disruptions, and cultivate a strong safety culture across all levels of your company.
Always aligned & current with regulations and best practices
Our compliance and instructional design teams work with subject matter experts from industry and government, to ensure that each of our online courses are never behind the evolving regulatory landscape, anywhere in the country.
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Multi-lingual options
HSI's library of courses come in a growing number of options for different languages.
Keep your workforce on the job
Online training allows individual workers to complete high-quality course experiences at their own pace, from anywhere, anytime. This supports higher productivity and continuity of workflow—you don’t have to pull entire teams away from the job for training exercises.
Proof of knowledge
The point of any training is to successfully transfer knowledge. With HSI’s Learning Management System (LMS), you customize the parameters for passing score on course exams, and question randomization.
Frequently Asked Questions
OSHA has published nearly 1,000 standards, and many of those include safety training requirements to ensure workers are prepared with the skills and knowledge to safely perform their work.
As an employer or employee training provider, it can be difficult and time consuming to identify all the possible topics you need to cover to satisfy OSHA safety training requirements. It can be useful to complete an OSHA Safety Training Assessment to determine which requirements apply to your specific situation.
Employers are responsible for providing their employees with a workplace free from known hazards. Training is an essential part of this responsibility and helps to protect workers from injuries and illnesses. Employee safety training results in fewer injuries and illnesses, better employee morale, lower insurance premiums, and more.
Employee training gives workers the tools necessary to recognize, avoid, and fix hazards they may encounter as they go about their daily work. Knowledge is power; the more your workers understand the risks and how to protect themselves, the better off they will be.
You already know employee training of any kind costs money. Strictly speaking, the cost of online safety training is number of courses + number of employees + LMS hosting. However, a better way to think about employee safety training might be, what does it cost to not train your employees?
OSHA can issue fines of up to $16,000 for a single safety violation. The average workers’ compensation settlement is around $41,000. The median number of days away from work per incident is 10, resulting in productivity losses.
It is easy to see why the upfront costs of employee safety training far outweigh the potential costs of not having fully trained employees. Employee safety training is an investment that will pay back repeatedly in fewer injuries and illnesses, lower insurance premiums, and more.
For workplace safety training to be effective, employees must be motivated to complete the courses. The modern workforce does not want to sit through PowerPoint safety presentations or watch outdated DVDs. And with more workers than ever in remote or hybrid roles, you should not still be relying on these physical forms of training.
Safety training courses need to be just as modern as the employees taking them. Here are just a few features to look for in online safety training for employees:
- Engaging content with relevant, real-world scenarios.
- Accessibility so employees can train any time, anywhere.
- Regular refreshes to keep the content – including the visuals – from getting stale and outdated.
- Consistent messaging, meaning every employee receives the same training.
The goal of any safety training should be to give workers the knowledge they need to protect themselves. OSHA — and other federal, state, and industry-specific regulatory bodies — outline many specific training topics or hazards that must be covered.
And while much of a workplace safety training program should be specific to the hazards of that workplace, there are many generic topics that most employees could benefit from.
HSI courses that cover topics found in most workplaces, regardless of industry, include:
- Hazard Communication
- Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP)
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Emergency and Fire Preparedness
- Fire Extinguisher Safety
- Electrical Safety: General Awareness
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Back Safety and Injury Prevention
- Ladder Safety
- Driver Safety
Trick question! There is no such thing as “OSHA-approved safety training.” In reality, employers are responsible for ensuring their employee safety training meets OSHA’s requirements as far as content and frequency are concerned.
In many cases, “OSHA-approved training” is used to refer to OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 training. Employees interested in completing OSHA 10/30 training and obtaining an OSHA card, must find an OSHA-authorized trainer, which is where the confusion of terms often comes from. HSI is an OSHA-approved provider of OSHA 10 and 30 training in English and Spanish for General Industry and Construction, learn more.