| When you first established your business, you | | | | and taking them away from productive work. |
| knew that one important responsibility that you | | | | This can bring significant savings to the business |
| have is to follow fire safety regulations. One of | | | | owner as well. This typically includes safety |
| your legal duties is to provide fire training to your | | | | precautions, extinguisher tests, and video modules. |
| staff. For some business owners, this sounds like | | | | Just make sure you choose a video CD package |
| an additional chore considering all the work that | | | | that has good picture quality, easy-to-understand |
| they already have to do in a daily basis. But if you | | | | instructions, and visual messages that can |
| would really think about it, providing correct | | | | enhance learning. |
| education and exercises can actually help you | | | | E Learning |
| save a life one day, may it be of your employee | | | | Many business owners because of its low cost |
| or of a customer. Below you will find some of | | | | and efficiency also prefer E learning. It is similar to |
| your options that you would want to consider for | | | | the video training in terms of advantages but |
| your employees. | | | | instead of getting the information from a CD, you |
| On-site | | | | would access it via the Internet. This system |
| In this option, you will need to round up your | | | | provides a home page where every user must |
| employees and have a professional firefighter or | | | | log on to. Here, your employees will get access on |
| expert carry on with the training. Schedule a day | | | | important safety documents and training videos |
| for it and make sure that everyone attends. This | | | | where they would gain knowledge about the |
| can include fire marshall training (evacuation | | | | rudiments of fire safety. One advantage of E |
| procedures, daily and weekly checks, safety | | | | learning is that it is always updated and can |
| features and preventive measures, extinguisher | | | | remain accurate even if there is any changing |
| exercises, drills), fire extinguisher training (theory | | | | legislation. |
| and practice, when to fight or flee), and risk | | | | Business owners have so many things in mind. |
| assessment exercises (legislation, hazard | | | | You would have to think about marketing |
| awareness, risk assessment exercises). | | | | strategies, financial matters, management of |
| CD-Based Video | | | | employees, improvement of products and |
| A good alternative to on-site is the CD-based | | | | services, and so many more. But even if they are |
| video. DIY video packages are the practical and | | | | so busy, they should never neglect their |
| cost-effective solution for both small and big | | | | important responsibility to provide fire training to |
| businesses. This combines video modules, | | | | their employees. This is not only for the sake of |
| software tests and printable records. The good | | | | your business but more importantly for the |
| thing about this is that your employees can learn | | | | people who are working for you and for the |
| at their own paces and they can view the video | | | | people coming in and out of your business. Who |
| in their own computer. The business owner can | | | | knows? This can make you save a life one day. |
| avoid the hassle of gathering all the employees | | | | |
