A good method is to supply the employee with pertinent written material to be read by a certain date, initialed, and returned to the supervisor. In general, knowledgeable employees should not be required to attend basic classes or lectures or shown elementary AV programs. These tactics, while often the path of least resistance, can actually worsen safety performance. The employee gets the message that safety is so unimportant to management that they will not make even the slightest effort to prepare an individualized program. Each employee demonstrates for the instructor the safe method just taught.
Demonstrations can be time-consuming, but very useful.
The cheapest, easiest, most commonly used, and generally least reliable method. Tests are suitable for discovering the extent of knowledge about a regulatory topic, policy change, or other nonperformance subject. Effective if the supervisor or instructor immediately corrects any unsafe behavior and rewards the employee for incorporating the safety instructions into the job. Observation is not inherently time-consuming, since the supervisor should be observing employees anyway. Determining the contribution of the safety training program to employee safety performance is not easy because so many other factors enter into an employee's decision whether to work safely or not.