Nursery World - In-House Training: Part 4

Embedding training in practice is crucial, write Anne Oldfield and Sarah Emerson, and assessment can be a useful way to promote this

Picture the scene: staff sit in a room after a long day watching a Powerpoint presentation offering them definitions of a risk and hazards. You, as the manager, asks the staff team for examples. You make reference to acts of Parliament and official guidelines, and include cartoon images of people falling off ladders, tripping over cables, spilling toxic substances.

You then hand out example risk assessments and the accident book and utter dire threats to those who do not comply. ‘Done in 30 minutes and training box ticked,’ you think to yourself. Yet a week later, an accident goes unrecorded, a box falls out of a cupboard, and a glue gun is left on a table.

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