When your business mandates that humans work in potentially hazardous environments, the stakes are too high to have untrained employees conducting the work.
Today, there are many training options designed to provide workers with the tools needed to ensure they go home safely.
Here are 5 reasons to get gas detection training on your team’s schedule for the upcoming year.
- You can’t afford not to – Gas detection devices have come a long way in terms of ease of use, but that doesn’t mean that workers should be left to figure out the nuances on their own. While using the instrument may be intuitive in some ways, like knowing to exit the area during a high alarm, many topics should be learned through training, like how to properly sample a confined space or calibrate an instrument. When a worker must make a life-saving decision in the moment, don’t be left wishing you had made a minor investment in his or her training.
- There is training for every type of learner - When it comes to training, each person is different and a one-size-fits-all approach often is ineffective. Understanding students’ needs on an individual basis and seeking tools to fit them and their situation are key. Whether you prefer hands-on, face-to-face training, online training, video training, computer-based training, or downloadable apps, there is education that meets your learning style, time constraints, and budget.
- Knowledge spreads – If sending every employee to training is not possible, consider enrolling a safety manager or other leader in a train-the-trainer program. A single investment can provide a ripple effect in your company’s safety culture.
- Saves time and money in the long run – By getting your employees the gas detection training they need, you are helping to reduce the likelihood of an accident in the future. Why not be proactive in trying to prevent incidents that put lives at stake or threaten to shut down operations?
- Allows you to maintain your own equipment – Some gas detection training courses not only teach the basics of equipment operation, but also maintenance and repair. You can save money in the long run by not needing to send the equipment back to the manufacturer for repair.
If you think gas detection training may be a fit for you or your team, check out the re-imaged Gas Detection Made Easy courses offered by Industrial Scientific in 2018. Classes are broken into three parts that focus on general gas detection education, how to use instruments, and how to repair instruments. Each of these one-day courses is offered at locations across the country throughout the year with custom on-site classes available. Check out the training options at www.indsci.com/training for more information.
At Industrial Scientific, employees are dedicating their careers to eliminating death on the job by the year 2050. It is our calling to create leading training programs that help to keep workers safe, and we hope that you will take advantage of them.
For more information, contact Jeremy DaValle, Industrial Scientific training team lead, at jdavalle@indsci.com or 1-412-490-1969.
