Article on Weird Workplace Safety Videos
On July 2, 2015, The Atlantic published an interesting article entitled "In Praise of the Humble Workplace Safety Video" by Sophie Gilbert. The full article can be accessed here . Ms. Gilbert stated in the article: "There are no statistics relating to whether safety videos actually decrease occurrences of injuries and fatalities in the workplace, but they definitely offer a healthy defense against one serious threat: lawsuits." A 2006 study in the American Journal of Public Health entitled " Relative Effectiveness of Worker Safety and Health Training Methods " explained that video-based training is one of the least effective intervention methods to improve workers' knowledge of safety and health. Lectures and videos are passive methods that are commonly used in industry to present safety and health information, but were shown in this study to be the least engaging and least effective methods. More engaging methods, such as hands-on demonstrations and...