Its purpose is to inform Oregon employers of best practices in occupational safety and health and general Oregon OSHA compliance requirements. I don't think you need convincing about the importance of training employees on safe work procedures. You wouldn't be taking this course unless you appreciated education and training. In this module we will be covering your safety training responsibilities, the safety topics that need to be trained, and the best way to train them. Safety education and training are both important in improving an employee's ability to work safely.
Education is important because it gives a person knowledge about safety and why it is necessary.
Training, on the other hand, gives an employee knowledge, and through practice, the skills to actually accomplish safe work procedures. Both are important to safety success. They're Supposed To Do, that the number one reason employees do not perform to expected standards is that they don't know why they should do them. The second most common reason is that employees do not know how to do the task correctly. Education and training, when applied together strike at both these causes for substandard performance.