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Newly Revised Standard On Accepted Practices In Safety, Health and Environmental Training
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recently announced the approval
and availability of the newly revised American National Standard ANSI/ASSE
Z490.1-2009 ‘Criteria
for Accepted Practices in Safety, Health, and Environmental Training.’ The
standard calls for qualified training to ensure that workers and safety, health,
and environmental professionals have the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary
to protect themselves and others in the workplace.
Approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the ANSI/ASSE
Z490.1-2009 standard applies a broad range of training and training programs
in order to
specify how to adequately design, develop, deliver and evaluate training.
“
The Z490 was written to provide a guide for the development and presentation
of comprehensive HSE training events,” said Z490 Committee Vice-Chair Frank
Perry, P.E., CSP. “As health, safety and environmental professionals,
we have all had the opportunity to conduct compliance training at one time
or another.
Occasionally we were less than satisfied with either our presentation or with
the organization of the training materials. The Z490 is the perfect guide to
develop, present and evaluate each training event. If one is using a third-party
trainer, the Z490 can be used as a yardstick to ensure that you are truly getting
what your organization requires and what you are paying for.”
The standard covers all areas of training, including training development,
delivery, evaluation and management of training and training programs. Criteria
within
the standard were developed by combining accepted practices in the training
industry along with those in the safety, health and environmental profession.
The standard has many uses including: for use by employers to assess the
services of outside training providers or to audit or improve their own
training programs;
for training providers to assess and improve their training services; and
to be used as a basis for development and management of training and training
programs. It is available in electronic and print format by contacting
ASSE at 847-699-2929
or customerservice@asse.org.
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