Tell Me a Story: Using Stories to Improve Occupational Safety Training

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• Personal Author:
  Cullen, Elaine T.
• Description:
  Humans are natural storytellers and story listeners. People learn very early that stories not only are entertaining, but also provide the rules about what is expected by society and how to make meaning of experiences. Stories are integral to human existence and have great power to change or influence how people think or react. They are an integral part of how learning takes place, and have obvious benefits to trainers and educators who want to impact what and how students learn. This article discusses the social and cultural power of stories, and how they have been used to develop training for skilled blue-collar workers. It includes examples as well as suggestions for trainers on where to find stories, what types of stories to pay attention to, and how to use them to improve occupational safety training. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Education Environmental-factors Environmental-hazards Explosives Ground-control Hazards Injuries Injury-prevention Mine-fires Mine-workers Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Nonmetal-mining Occupational-hazards Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Teaching Training Underground-miners Underground-mining Work-environment Workers

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  0099-0027
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  20-27
• Volume:
  53
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035397
• Citation:
  Prof Saf 2008 Jul; 53(7):20-27
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:284b662c78b4029313ecbb7f051098066517f6d11e2e649565748c3a3c6b12dc010781a10452c35fc7a98ef9fe56d677183295eafc4d7aa45434cac37d712a02
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227092/cdc_227092_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.75 MB ]