Information is but one building block for the important process of creating knowledge, developing skills, and performing safety related activities and tasks in accordance with planned occupational health and safety objectives. There is an overwhelming amount of useful information and knowledge that can be provided to every employee. It is vitally important to develop a strategic approach which effectively employs technological capabilities and reduces the volume of overwhelming information to a smaller focused collection of useful information. Ultimately, relevant and appropriate occupational health and safety information is used by various occupations of employees, such as frontline workers, trades persons, supervisors, management, health and safety professionals, risk managers, and many others. One of the most worthwhile information delivery goals is to enable workers to focus their energies and resources on using the information to create learning opportunities and to engage in specified activities and tasks which result in the prevention of occupational illnesses and injuries.
Information is needed and used in both planned and informal manners.
People learn at different speeds, at different levels of understanding, and use the new knowledge according to their own abilities. Provision of information, which not only meets basic learning objectives but enables the user of the information to progress further at their own speed, is worthwhile. Our innate human senses enable us to receive stimuli and information in the form of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Learning is thought to occur best from using combinations of these senses to support, reinforce and retain the information that is introduced. We all have preferred methods of employing these senses to acquire and process information.