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Series: Giving Safety Talks

Authors: Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society (AWES)

This facilitator’s guide is part of a resource package prepared by Alberta Workforce Essential Skills (AWES) for use with workers whose first language is not English. This guide and the accompanying participant workbook can be used to deliver either one or two three-hour train-the-trainer workshops. A self-directed guide is also available and would be useful for smaller organizations that may not be able to hire a workshop trainer.

Each of the manuals can be used in conjunction with a set of 50 posters illustrating various safety topics.

The authors note that being a better communicator of safety is central to achieving the goal of preventing accidents and injuries. The learning goals of this training resource include helping participants strengthen their presentation skills; getting rid of their presentation “blind spots” through real-time feedback from fellow participants and trainers; and advancing the culture of safety in the workplace by enabling participants to become better communicators.

Among the topics covered are clarity and conciseness; setting goals; preparing, opening, delivering, and closing a talk; body language and speech quality; learning styles; dealing with disruptions; and bridging cultural gaps.

For more information or to order copies of the safety posters, please visit the AWES website: http://www.awes.ca.

Funders:

• Alberta Employment and Immigration

Added: 2013-04-23

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Series: Giving Safety Talks

Authors: Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society (AWES)

This document is part of a set of resources designed for staff members who deliver safety training to workers whose first language is not English. This workbook and the accompanying facilitator’s guide can be used to deliver either one or two three-hour train-the-trainer workshops.

A self-directed guide is also available for smaller organizations that may not be able to hire a workshop trainer. Each of the manuals can be used in conjunction with a set of 50 safety posters illustrating various safety topics.

The workbook includes a variety of activities to help participants learn to deliver talks that are clear and concise; deal with disruptions; become more aware of speech quality and body language; understand different learning styles; and bridge cultural gaps.

The resources were prepared by Alberta Workforce Essential Skills (AWES), a nonprofit organization dedicated to building an adaptable and innovative workforce. For more information, visit the AWES website: www.awes.ca.

Funders:

• Alberta Employment and Immigration

Added: 2013-05-06

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Series: Giving Safety Talks

Authors: Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society (AWES)

This document is part of a resource package prepared by Alberta Workforce Essential Skills (AWES) to help staff members deliver safety training in the construction sector to workers whose first language is not English. Specifically, this guide is aimed at smaller organizations that may not be able to hire a workshop trainer.

This self-directed guide, as well as the facilitator’s guide and the participant workbook, can be used in conjunction with a set of 50 safety posters illustrating various safety topics.

The authors suggest two different approaches for using the guide. It can be used independently, with the user working through the resource on his own, and asking one or two close colleagues to perform formal evaluations of his safety talks using the checklists at the back of the guide.

Alternatively, a team that regularly gives safety talks can choose to work through the resource together, using the checklists to collaborate on performing formal evaluations of the talks.

For more information about AWES, please click here: http://www.awes.ca.

Funders:

• Alberta Employment and Immigration

Added: 2013-05-13

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You can in the Yukon!

Series: Yukon Learn Learner Book Series

Authors: Elaine Schiman

The world becomes a different place at 40 below: ice and snow covers the ground, your house and your car. Your breath freezes in the air. Inside, frost gets around the windows and doors. Whenever a door is opened, a blast of cold air rushes in, raising an icy fog. Living at 40 below is like living inside the worlds largest freezer.

This book shows you how to survive 40 below. It gives you information on cold injuries, how to dress warmly, how to drive in such cold weather and more.

Added: 2007-07-26

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A Literacy and Economic Rights Resource Reader

A Literacy and Economic Rights Resource Reader, designed to create awareness of human rights and to help with the learning process in adult basic education.

Added: 1999-01-01

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Authors: Karen Martin

This handbook has been designed to promote safety in the workplace for people with disabilities and to prevent injury or death; to educate employers and workers about the needs of people with disabilities in the workplace; and to provide employers and workers with practical solutions and strategies they can use in their emergency planning.

The authors have included examples of how disabilities will affect emergency planning, as well as sections on determining staff and volunteer needs and personnel resources; making the work site safer; emergency communications; evacuations and sheltering-in-place plans; workplace emergency drills; working with community; personal preparedness; and preparing an emergency plan in both printed and alternate formats.

There is also a section offering tips for interacting with people who have a variety of impairments, including visual disabilities; hearing impairments; cognitive and learning disabilities; and mobility problems.

The authors note that creating a culture of safety in the workplace is fundamental to overcoming workers’ fears and anxiety around emergency evacuation planning.

Funders:

• Workers' Compensation Board of Nova Scotia, Innovations at Work Grant
• WorkSafe BC

Added: 2012-10-12

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