Using Quizzes To Enhance Your Safety Program

1 SAFETYMEETINGOUTLINES, INCPO Box 700, Frankfort, IL 2011 Safety meeting Outlines, Inc. All rights Quizzes To EnhanceYour Safety ProgramQuizzes can improve and Enhance your Safety training Program . This guide will help youmake the most of the Quizzes by helping you make Quiz delivery easy and effective thusmaking your job a little easier. To get started: scan this document, and if you are pressedfor time, only read the sections that you feel will help you the most right away. Be sure torefer back to other sections when you have questions. What s In This Guide?This document is intended to help you get the most out of the Quizzes . Below is a briefdescription of each section of the Philosophy for Using Quizzes :This section discusses the benefits of conductingQuizzes and why they are an important addition to your Safety training the Quiz:This section recommends steps you can take to make the Quizzesmore effective and efficient, especially your first the Quiz: This section provides a couple of tips to make taking and reviewingthe Quizzes quick and the Quiz: This section gives a few suggestions for reviewing the Quiz answersand documenting your Safety and Reference: This section will give you some ideas about what to do withthe Quizzes after your crew hands them back to Problems and Recommendations.

2 This section helps you foresee somepotential problems you may run into along the way and provides the Correct Answers:This section emphasizes why making sure youremployees know the correct answers to Quiz questions is important. Customizing the Signature Statements: This section provides instructions on howto edit or delete the signature sections of the you have comments about the Quizzes , or questions that aren t discussed here, pleasecontact us by phone (888-665-3836) or by clicking hereto send us an e-mail. We arealways glad to hear from our clients, and we are interested in making our products ashelpful and effective as they can Philosophy for Using QuizzesWe want to help you save Lives, Time, and Money; this Quiz product will accomplish all ofthese goals.

3 An overarching goal of our company has always been to help workers makechoices that keep them safe. We believe that if people understand the risks they face andhow to avoid them, those people can make decisions that will prevent accidents, injuries,and that there will be a Quiz on the material covered in the weekly Safety Meetingmakes everyone at the Safety meeting more accountable for the information. When theyexpect a Quiz, employees tend to pay more attention and be more To Using Quizzes To Enhance your Safety Program2In addition to learning by listening, Quizzes promote learning via reading and writing. Justlistening to a weekly Safety meeting can be a very passive experience. The employees areonly required to be present.

4 When those same employees take the Quiz, they have to readand answer the questions. Doing so exposes them to the Safety information twomoretimes. Even more importantly, writing the answers is active. While these points may seemsubtle or even trivial, learning psychology demonstrates that the act of reading andresponding on the Quizzes will have an impact on overall learning and retention. Youremployees will learn more during the meeting and the Quiz; therefore, your time spent inconducting Quizzes is invested goal of our company is to help our clients be more profitable by saving their com-panies time and your employees actually listento the weekly Safety meeting or do they just lookattentive while they are really counting the sprinkles on their donuts?

5 The results of aquick Quiz will demonstrate whether or not your employees are actually paying attentionat your Safety meetings. You ll find that your employees will listen more attentively whenthey anticipate a Quiz. Our Quizzes are not intended to document their knowledge of aparticular Safety concept, or to prove that they are competent to safely perform an actionor task. The purpose of the Quiz is to allow you to go beyond simply getting a signatureon the bottom of the weekly Safety meeting . With the Quizzes , you can demonstratetrainingover mere attendance. Better training documentation can help you avoid lawsuits, minimize OSHA citations and fines, and potentially reduce insurance help your employees learn more so they can be safer in the field.

6 At the sametime, Quizzes provide better documentation of your training Program . Quizzes are anotherway to save Lives, Time, and the QuizThe Quizzes are very straightforward and easy to use. Even so, a little planning andpreparation can go a long way toward making your job easier and making the Quizzesmore are several recommendations in the list below, all of which are easy to do and quitelogical. We ve included this list to help you avoid some potential problems that couldoccur when you conduct DO CLIENTS FIND VALUE IN USINGQUIZZES?My employees pay more attention during weekly Safety company wants better proof that the employees are being trained for internal reasons. 44%My company wants to be able to show OSHA proof that the employees are being trained.

7 75%Our insurance carrier wants better proof that our employees are being trained. 33%The general contractors and owners that we do work for want better proof that our Safety Program is being implemented. 47%The Quizzes create new opportunities to discuss Safety issues. 72%It s a moral issue we really want to know that the employees understand the material so they can work safely. 78%Total is greater than 100% because clients could choose more than one the Following Materials Handya. your copy of the weekly Safety meeting that goeswith the Quiz. If you print copies of the Meetings foryour crew so they can follow along, you ll probablywant to have the crew return those copies to you or atleast turn them over before you give them the your copy of the Answer Key.

8 C. A copy of the Quiz for each person taking the Quiz questions are on the Answer Key, so youdon t need a separate copy of the Quiz for yourselfunless you want Pens or pencils for everyone in case they don t have theirown. This is particularly important for the first few Everyone will need a flat surface to write on. You won t necessarily need aconference room or training center, just a flat surface. If you re conductingQuizzes in the field, clipboards or folders may the weekly Safety meeting and the Quiz in reading bothitems first, you ll know what s comingand you ll be prepared if someone asks afollow-up question. Think about company policies that are related to the SafetyMeeting. You may want to highlight those policies during the meeting or after theQuiz.

9 For example, your company might mandate 100% tie-off for fall protectionover six feet, or there might be a policy requiring eye protection all of the timewhen you re on site or at work. Whether You Will Tell Them in whether you willannounce the Quiz before reading the weekly Safety meeting , or make it a PopQuiz and announce it after you ve finished reading the meeting . If Quizzes will bepart of your Safety training routine, this is probably only going to be an issue forthe first few Quizzes . You could give everyone advance notice. After you read your next SafetyMeeting, explain that you will be conducting Quizzes at upcomingsafetymeetings. If you announce right before reading the meeting that you will be givingthe Quiz afterward, your crew will probably pay more attention during thesafety meeting .

10 Additionally, they ll have a few minutes to get used to theidea of taking a Quiz. If you announce it after reading the meeting , the Quiz may seem like punishment. It will also be quite a shock for the very first Quiz. How You Will Conduct the you read the questions to the crewas they follow along, or will you have them take the Quiz silently, on their own?If you have employees who do not read well, reading the questions aloud toeveryone will avoid embarrassment and reduce the time required for the the questions aloud also gives you more control over how long the Quizwill take. Note that if you read the questions to your crew, you may seem a littlemore like a teacher; that appearance could make the process better or worsedepending on you and your How You Will Correct the option you choose, onceyou have corrected the Quizzes , make sure that each employee writes in thecorrect answer for each question he or she missed.