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Simple Tips on How to Improve Your Safety Inductions

June 4, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 25 Comments

Improving by Comparing Effective Safety Inductions and Traditional Safety Inductions I continually get emails and calls about the dreadful state of inductions in various industries, despite the wealth of expertise about in instructional design and education. Unfortunately a Cert IV in training is … [Read more...] about Simple Tips on How to Improve Your Safety Inductions

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Potato Heads Make Great Safety Advisors

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Potato Heads Make Great Safety Advisors www.safetypotato.com A potato head is able to switch body parts and take on a different persona. Each character a potato head takes on is both genuine and different; to some degree all people are potato heads. One of the lessons we learn from social … [Read more...] about Potato Heads Make Great Safety Advisors

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Potato Head Risk and Safety

June 24, 2014 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Potato Head Risk and Safety The purpose of this article is to introduce you to ‘potato heads’ and ‘spud heads’ in risk and safety. Before we get too deep into this risk and safety potato heads it might be useful to introduce some potato head background. Mr Potato Head (first called ‘funny face … [Read more...] about Potato Head Risk and Safety

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