Re: Your chance to participate in "Safety Trends" talk.

[John Pickering <johnjp@email.sjsu.edu>]

Brian,

I see a significant change in training materials being improved and becoming
more available. In the past, much of the training material has been directed
toward technicians in the professional support areas (i.e., HP tech, etc.).
Communication and training have been making a major leap forward. The focus
of training will be to standardize worker training and make it available
through distance learning (teleconference and internet). The focus will be
to enhance the worker using various resources in the workplace (general
workers versus the support technicians). 

Several facilities and universities are beginning to develop better training
programs that do not require the learner to relocate to the university
environment. The cost of the training should become less per student
(hopefully). The quality will shift toward what the learner needs to know or
be able to do and less toward academic.

I hope I am right! I have been dedicating much of my time in this area recently.

John Pickering, RSO
San Jose State University
johnjp@email.sjsu.edu


At 05:35 PM 9/7/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Later this month I will be facilitating a talk for our local (Madison, WI)
>Safety Council.  The name of the talk is "Trends in Safety for the New
>Millennium".  
>
>We will discuss the many enhancements/improvements which have come to the
>safety field in the last part of this century, but will be focusing most of
>the allotted time on what the future holds for the field in the areas of
>compliance, communication, and training.
>
>To show how 'networking' has become an important tool lately, I want to
>share the thoughts of those on the SAFETY, LABSAFE, & RADSAFE mail-lists
>(regarding the scope of this talk).
>
>So...what do you feel the greatest trends in Safety will be for the next ten
>years?  I will omit your name if you wish.
>
>Send me an email!  
>As always, thanks for your input.
>Brian Olson
>Manager, EH&S
>Promega Corp (biotech co.)
>Madison, WI  53711
>bolson@promega.com
>
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