Numbers are In: Safety Training's Impact on Employees

EHS Today recently published an article on how safety training affects employees' attitudes about their workplace, including how safe they feel, whether they'll consider staying with the company, and their overall job satisfaction.

One of the points we like to educate readers on continually is how safety is not just an added expense or cost of doing business, but that it can contribute to your bottom line. It's just not always an intuitive connection. Articles like these help to bolster that point.

The survey referred to in the article reached out to 600 employees across several safety-sensitive industries. Here's some of the findings:

• "81% report that their training makes them feel more inclined to stay at the company
• 62% believe that good training improves job satisfaction
• 57% say that safety issues make more seasoned workers leave – which contributes to the skills gap
• 44% say that safety issues make it harder to hire – which contributes to the labor shortage and widening skills gap"

Workforce hiring, training, and retention are all real costs to the business. One component to keeping those costs down is a robust safety culture and safety training program.