#Training
HSE personnel training and development: modern remote formats, interactive training grounds for hazardous work, gamification, and on-the-job microlearning. Transitioning from formal planned briefings to continuous educational programs converting theory into sustainable skills.
The Brain Loves Stories, Not Instructions: Turning Dry Safety Rules into Living Knowledge
Dry cardinal rules of occupational health and safety are often perceived as formal bureaucracy and are quickly forgotten, since the human brain absorbs meaning and emotions, not dry instructions. The article examines the approach of specialists at Bystra, who suggest explaining safety through life stories, empathy, and real examples. Such a presentation engages the emotional centers of the brain and helps workers perceive the rules as personal protection and a guarantee of safety.
Safety Starts With You: School of Lead Trainers
Creation and development of an internal industrial safety trainer academy from among company employees. Trainers undergo external certification, are assigned to specific production units, and train personnel from workers to top managers, as well as contractor employees.
Internship: Preparing for Public Speaking. Or: How a Novice Manager Can Learn to Synthesize Information
Preparing a report on the results of an internship helps a future manager master key managerial skills, including communication, synthesizing information, and building an action strategy. In the process of work, trainees learn to independently assess risks, analyze the effectiveness of injury prevention measures, and formulate recommendations for improvements. It is the final public presentation of the report to management that turns out to be the most difficult stage for novice managers.
Fast and Effective Internship: What a Novice Manager Needs to Know
The article describes an internship system for novice managers in the position of head of the occupational health and safety department to develop personnel management skills and ensure safety. The material describes the preparation procedure — from practical site inspections and risk assessments to the final report — and also presents feedback from program participants. The author explains how such training helps young leaders consciously build a safety culture and improve communication with su...
Safety Without Illusions - How to Avoid Cargo Cult When Implementing Practices
Diagnosing and transforming formal safety procedures into truly working mechanisms. Separating the concepts of conscious sabotage (formalism) and blind copying of practices (cargo cult) to apply different management decisions, including the personal example of leaders and teaching the mechanics of the result.
The Impact of Training on Personnel Performance
The article examines the impact of stress on erroneous decision-making by workers in emergency situations and the role of the human factor in industrial accidents. The author analyzes the mechanisms of brain function at critical moments and relies on research data confirming that regular practical training reduces stress levels and increases the psychological resilience of personnel. The material shows the importance of moving from formal inspections to workplace skill development using the exam...
Minimizing Fires in Production
In-house modernization of production equipment to minimize fire risks. Implementation of technical solutions (software reconfiguration, protective guards, machine synchronization) and organizational measures (zonal fire alarms, practical fire extinguisher training) to transition from reactive to proactive fire safety management.
From Local Function to Business Partnership: What Competencies Should an HSE Employee Develop?
Transforming the HSE specialist's role from controller to business partner. Developing new competencies (empathy, critical thinking, Lean, stakeholder management) to integrate safety into business processes.
DRA Tool: A Skill or a Long Process?
Roman Portnyagin, a safety culture trainer at Norilsk Nickel, breaks down the "Dynamic Risk Assessment" (DRA) tool and explains why industrial safety should not be perceived as a process that interferes with work. Using the example of everyday hazard assessment when crossing the road, the author shows how continuous practice turns risk management from rules into an automatic skill. The article reveals which training, incentive, and recognition tools help motivate employees to apply "DRA" for the...
How to Support the System Under Multiple Changes
A comprehensive strategy for restoring and stabilizing the HSE management system amid staff shortages and structural changes. Includes updating risk assessments, implementing Management of Change procedures, crisis committee operations, revising financial motivation and competency matrices, and regular employee pulse surveys.
Open Dialogue with Ekaterina Rogova: How to Reduce Severe Injuries by 70% in 2 Years
Systemic transformation of HSE approaches, including practice-oriented training for line managers, risk management systems, and department ratings. Rejecting the 'human factor' concept to find root causes and create convenient conditions for safe work.
Safety Architect: How an HSE Expert Can Create a Training Game in a Week Using AI
Traditional training methods in occupational health and safety do not reveal specialists' "blind spots" that manifest during decision-making under stress. The article examines an approach to creating an industrial reality simulator that allows practicing practical skills without risk to life and health. The author uses an example to show how an expert in occupational health, safety, and industrial safety can reduce the development cycle of an educational game from six months to one week with the...