Chapter 9 - Personnel Training

Abstract

This chapter focuses on personnel training requirements that have become the key requirements in regulations related to workplace health and safety, and environmental quality. Their importance derives from several distinct and interrelated factors that influence not only the American but also the global workplace as the need for employees to develop the skills and behavioral patterns required to achieve and maintain safe work conditions, right of employees to participate in decision-making that affects their well being, the recognition by the public at large, and increasingly complex industrial base. Personnel training became a complex undertaking for even small business and, in large corporations, that typically demands a significant investment of time and money. In both large and small corporations, effective personnel training is directly relevant not only to broad health and safety objectives, but also to the converging economic and marketing interests that underlie any modern business. All personnel training is viewed as corporate risk management, which is inclusive of all corporate effort to control losses in productivity, capital resources, human resources, and market performance. An effective corporate risk management program is essential in achieving proactive management control of hazards and resulting in community-wide emergencies.