Bridget Leathley

We talk to training providers about how they have adapted essential courses to cope with social distancing, including a rapid switch to virtual classrooms.

We round off the alphabet by considering how to use the Russian psychologist's work in OSH

The strength of the stimulus as the experimental variable, with performance as the result.

While it is no longer acceptable to assume that all men are stronger than all women, or that people of one colour have different personalities to those of another colour it is, it appears, entirely acceptable to declare that anyone born since 1980 is addicted to social media and will ‘challenge traditional hierarchical HSE systems’, while anyone born before that date is a luddite with no understanding of the modern age, but will be quite happy to toe the line.

In the days when most computers had black screens with green text, the term ‘What You See Is What You Get’ (WYSIWYG, pronounced whizzy-wig) referred to new computers that were being developed by companies like Apple and Xerox, where documents appeared on the screen as they would be printed.

In J is for Just Culture, the definition for the term was given as “a culture in which frontline operators and others are not punished for actions, omissions or decisions taken by them which are commensurate with their experience and training, but where gross negligence, wilful violations and destructive acts are not tolerated” (see IOSH Magazine, January 2019: bit.ly/37jtUXN).

Sensory elements such as smell and heat now feature in immersive technologies for safety training. The author reports on their impact and test-drives one of them.

Three specialists outline five key lessons that OSH professionals can consider in their work.

Training that mixes distance-learning and face-to-face tuition works wonders as long as it is personalised.