Training Kit Research Articles

A hand-ergonomics training kit: development and evaluation of a package to support improved awareness and critical thinking

A need for a hand-ergonomics training kit has been identified to increase critical thinking concerning choice of hand tools. This study deals with the design, use and evaluation of a hand-ergonomics training kit for use in ergonomics training programmes. The effects on awareness of hand ergonomics among training course participants have been evaluated by means of a questionnaire and interviews at a car production plant in Sweden. The evaluation was carried out about one and a half years after training with the hand-ergonomics training kit. The training kit consists of a guide to practical exercises, equipment for measuring hand size and strength, examples of hand tools for use in practical exercises, equipment for testing and evaluating the hand tools and checklists and judgement forms for qualitative evaluation. In addition, the kit contains relevant scientifically based reference reports on hand ergonomics. The evaluation showed that the practical exercises with the hand-ergonomic training kit had, to a remarkable extent, increased individuals’ awareness of anthropometric differences and of the importance of ergonomically well-designed hand tools. After the practical exercises with the training kit, communication within the plant when choosing hand tools seems to be based on objective criteria to a higher degree, however, the results indicate that this communication could be further improved.

Oregon's Efforts to Reduce Elder Financial Exploitation

ABSTRACT Several programs have been undertaken in Oregon to reduce financial abuse. They include the production of a multi-media training kit by the Oregon's Attorney General's Task Force with funding from the US Department of Justice, creation of an “Elder Financial Exploitation Prevention Program” that educates seniors “at the scene of the crime,” and distribution of devices to assist elders in ending unwamted phone calls and direct mail solicitations.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a One Day Workshop to Enhance Health Professionals’ Skills In Dealing With Children And Weight Issues: Children & Weight: What Health Professionals Can Do

Nutritionists from the University of California and the Child Health and Disability Program of the California Dept. of Health Services collaborated on the development of a training module: Children & Weight: What Health Professionals Can Do.The training module consisted of a training kit with lesson plans, literature review, audiovisual aids and resource materials and a series of eight one-day workshops for health professionals conducted throughout the state.The training workshop included the following topics: risk factors for pediatric overweight, growth assessment of children, careplanning for the overweight child, child feeding techniques, body image/self esteem issues, community resources, and weight management advice.Over 500 health professionals attended the training workshops. An evaluation was conducted 6 months later to evaluate effectiveness of the training. Over 50% of the workshop participants returned the evaluation questionnaires. Of those 7% were physicians, 37% nurses, 37% nutritionists/dietitians, and 18% other professionals, including: nutrition, family, and consumer scientists; health educators; counselors; and program administrators.Well over half of all respondents indicated that they had used the workshop information. In some areas as many as 60% indicated that they have taken action to change current practices. Evaluation data from each topical area will be compared, as well as information on profession of respondent. Information from this evaluation will be used to plan future training modules for health professionals.

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – An International Save the Children Alliance Training Kit

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Early Psychosis Training Kit now Available to Facilitate Management of First Episode Psychosis

Early Psychosis Training Kit now Available to Facilitate Management of First Episode Psychosis

Sterility of Norplant Packaging

To the Editor. —The Norplant system (Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pa) was recently introduced in the United States. It consists of six Silastic capsules containing levonorgestrel that are surgically implanted under the skin of the medial upper arm with a trocar introducer and provide 5 years of contraception. The manufacturer has been training gynecologists and family physicians in the insertion technique through a combination of an audiovisual training kit, a dummy arm, and hands-on training sessions with live patients. I recently attended one of these training sessions and discovered a serious perception problem regarding the sterility of the system's packaging. The insertion kit has an outer cardboard box with an inner plastic tray that holds all of the sterile-wrapped insertion materials. This tray has the superficial appearance of a lumbar puncture or subclavian catheter insertion tray that most US physicians are familiar with. However, the Norplant packaging materials are simply packaging—they

Training kit—middle ear microsurgery

A middle ear surgery training kit, for beginners in Otology, has been designed out of acrylic and presented as an useful addition to a temporal bone laboratory.

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article Helping Troubled Children edited by S. Murgatroyd. Parents as Partners by G. Pugh. Help For Bed Wetting by Roy Meadow. Advances in Mental Handicap Research Volume 1 edited by J. Hogg and P. J. Mittler. Birth Defects Compendium edited by David Bergsma. Communicating with Normal and Retarded Children, edited by W. I. Frazer & R. Grieve. The Other Side of Paediatrics: A guide to the everyday care of sick children by June Jolly. The Plain English Training Kit produced by the Plain English Campaign and the National Consumer Council.

Training Kit For Implementing Small Group Instruction

Training Kit For Implementing Small Group Instruction

Structuring the training project

THE USE OF PROJECTS FOR TRAINING PURPOSES IS INCREASING rapidly (note the number of people now writing about it) and the method is now being fairly extensively used both in industry and in education. In many cases, however, it is used as little more than a sort of do‐it‐yourself training kit whereby the trainee is given a topic or a problem and left to his own devices; if the result is less than satisfactory then it is the fault of the trainee and certainly not the fault of the training officer! If the training officer is to use the project as a TRAINING method then he will have to be involved all the way through and not confine himself to a few comments handed out during the project review. In fact, the whole project will have to be very carefully planned and structured so that the trainee's progress is continually monitored, thus enabling the training officer to prompt, encourage, guide and advise. The training officer must do this if he is to assist in the learning process and not merely chronicle it.