Understand the Value – Why This Course Matters
Knowing safety is not the same as knowing how to teach it or communicate it effectively. Effective training requires a structured approach, from understanding what people need to learn and planning the training to designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating it. Even highly experienced safety professionals can struggle to explain complex information clearly, maintain attention, encourage participation, manage challenging conversations, or influence people to apply safe practices at work.
The Train the Safety Trainer course helps safety professionals become more effective trainers, coaches, facilitators, and safety leaders. Participants learn how to communicate with clarity and credibility, engage adult learners, facilitate meaningful discussions, manage different personalities and group dynamics, and confidently work with employees, managers, and leaders.
The course takes participants through the entire training process. They learn how to identify training needs, define learning outcomes, design and develop effective training, create a detailed training plan, prepare the learning environment, select appropriate methods, and develop engaging activities and materials. They also strengthen their presentation and facilitation skills and learn how to launch, deliver, conclude, and evaluate a training session effectively.
Participants learn how to engage people from different generations and organizational levels, manage group dynamics, and respond when attention or engagement begins to decline. They also learn how to adapt their training methods, activities, and communication for effective virtual delivery.
Throughout the course, participants build a practical toolkit they can use immediately in toolbox talks, orientations, safety meetings, coaching conversations, workshops, and structured training programs. They leave with a repeatable approach for communicating safety in a way that is clear, engaging, relevant, and more likely to influence workplace behaviour.
This course is designed for safety professionals and practitioners who are responsible for delivering training, presentations, and workplace instruction as part of their role.
It is ideal for individuals who already have technical safety knowledge and want to improve their ability to plan, prepare, deliver, and facilitate effective safety training.
Module 1: Effective safety training in today’s workplace. ADDIE model
What makes safety training effective
Best practices for safety training based on ANSI/ASSP Z490.1-2-0224 and CSA Z1001 standards
Applying the ADDIE model to plan, design, develop, implement and evaluate safety training
Module 2: Planning and preparing safety training
Planning training for different learning environments
Setting up the training venue and seating arrangements.
Preparing essential training equipment, materials and resources
Preparing participants and communicating key training details in advance
Module 3: Engaging participants and managing group dynamics
Managing attention and using 3 layers of learning engagement to overcome resistance
Using 6 principles of andragogy to make adult learning more effective
Engaging learners from different generations in safety training
Engaging leaders and managers in safety training
Stages of group development
Managing group dynamics, including in large groups
Module 4: Presentation skills for the safety trainer
Key content to memorize
Communication: what matters most for effective training delivery
Vocal elements of effective communication
Non-verbal communication skills
Module 5: Launching, delivering and wrapping up training
Recognizing and managing common pre-training challenges
Capturing participants' interest from the start
Effective trainer self-introduction: building trust and credibility
Using icebreakers purposefully and establishing expectations and ground rules
Managing timing, pace, and transition during training
Managing challenging participant behaviours
Wrapping up a training session effectively
Module 6: Specifics of virtual training delivery
Virtual training vs in-person training
Delivering interactive and organized virtual training sessions
Improving engagement and maintaining participants' attention in virtual learning environment
Managing webinar technology and environment
Conducting assessments and knowledge checks in virtual environment
Confidently plan, facilitate, and deliver occupational health, safety and environemntal training sessions
Apply adult learning principles to improve retention and motivation
Manage group dynamics and adapt to diverse audiences
Use professional public speaking techniques in safety settings
Evaluate training effectiveness and continuously improve delivery
In-Company Training (for corporate groups of 8–12 participants):
Our expert-led, 2-day course is delivered exclusively for your team, at your location or other agreed venue or live via Zoom
Online Course (for individual learners):
Enjoy 16-24 hours of flexible, self-paced study, 1 month of access, and unlimited support from our expert instructors.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Canadian Safety Institute.
Absolutely. Both the face-to-face and online versions of this course are designed around active learning and practical application. Activities reflect real safety training challenges, helping participants connect the course content to situations they may encounter in their own work.
The face-to-face course includes:
Facilitated group discussions
Breakout team exercises
Realistic scenarios and case studies
Analysis of real workplace safety training challenges
Video examples
Decision-making and problem-solving activities
Self-assessments and reflection activities
Opportunities to practise training and facilitation skills
Activities are never included simply for the sake of interaction. Each one has a clear learning purpose: to help participants understand key concepts, apply them to realistic safety situations, practise making decisions, and turn new knowledge into practical workplace skills.
The online course includes:
Realistic case studies
Video examples
Knowledge checks and quizzes
Practical assignments with scenarios based on workplace safety training challenges
Self-assessments and reflection activities
Downloadable tools, templates, and checklists
Although the online course is self-paced, participants are not left to learn from an automated system alone. Knowledge checks provide immediate results, while practical assignments are reviewed by real instructors who are seasoned safety professionals and experienced trainers. Participants receive personalized feedback to help them understand where they are doing well and how they can improve.