Making Safety and Health Training Materials More Effective: Designing Occupational Safety and Health Training Materials for Clear Communication

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Designing Occupational Safety and Health Training Materials for Clear Communication
  
  Clayton Sinyai, Grace Barlet. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2020
  
  J Occup Environ Med. 2020 Jun;62(6):431-438.
  
  Written materials remain a building block for occupational safety and health training programs, with a recent survey of construction safety professionals and trainers finding that nearly three out of four had used handouts or brochures during the previous month. However, written materials are effective only if the audience understands them, and developing content for the construction industry can be especially challenging because its workforce has a broad range of literacy skills. Public health professionals at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have created a Clear Communication Index (CCI) to guide the design of health education materials for the general public. This study used the CCI to revise an existing handout on heat exposure hazards in construction, assessing whether the new version was more comprehensible than the old version with an audience of 425 construction apprentices and journey-level workers.
  
  KF2020-designing-training-clear-communication.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communication Health Education Occupational Health Teaching Materials
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Key Findings from Research ; Small Study
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  production of this document was supported by cooperative agreement OH 009762 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Name as Subject:
  United States ; United States
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20060085
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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