Safety Training & Coaching Techniques Flashcards
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The IHSA coaching model emphasizes that safety culture change is most sustainable when driven by:
Answer: Workers taking personal ownership of their own and colleagues' safety
Sustainable safety culture requires internal motivation and peer accountability rather than reliance on external enforcement alone.
Which questioning technique most effectively encourages a worker to self-identify solutions during a safety coaching session?
Answer: Open-ended questions such as 'What could you do differently next time?'
Open-ended questions invite workers to generate their own solutions, increasing commitment and problem-solving capability.
A new worker fails a practical fall protection competency assessment. The coach's next step should be:
Answer: Remove the worker from fall hazard exposure and provide targeted remedial training
Removing the worker from fall hazard exposure ensures immediate safety while remedial training addresses the specific competency gap.
When designing a safety training needs assessment, which data source provides the most objective evidence of training gaps?
Answer: Incident, near-miss, and first-aid reports analyzed for recurring root causes
Incident and near-miss data reveal systemic gaps between required and actual safe behaviors, grounding training needs in objective evidence.
During a safety training session on confined space entry, a participant challenges a procedure, claiming their company does it differently. The trainer should:
Answer: Acknowledge the comment, validate the question, and clarify the regulatory standard after the session if needed
Acknowledging and validating questions maintains psychological safety while ensuring regulatory standards are clearly communicated.
Which coaching behavior is most likely to undermine a safety coaching relationship?
Answer: Combining praise with criticism in every interaction regardless of context
Reflexively combining praise with criticism (the 'sandwich' approach) can make positive feedback feel insincere and dilute both messages.
A safety coach is working with an experienced worker who believes safety rules don't apply to them due to years of incident-free work. This is an example of:
Answer: Normalization of deviance, a high-risk belief pattern requiring coaching intervention
Normalization of deviance occurs when repeated rule deviations without incident lead workers to accept unsafe practices as normal, increasing catastrophic risk.