Learning Theories and Safety Training
摘要
Burke presents a much-needed critical review of learning theories that have guided safety education and training or have the potential to undergird safety knowledge and skill development. This review includes discussions on experiential, stage, social-cognitive, and reinforcement and feedback perspectives. Based on the major tenets of these theories, Burke presents a set of learning principles that can enhance safety knowledge and skill development, retention, and transfer. Importantly, he looks at the ways learning principles have been incorporated into common safety training methods and how they can be best applied. A notable feature is that he provides concise examples of how learning principles have been employed in the design and delivery of lecture and discussion, video-based, positive reinforcement and feedback, behavioral modeling, computer-based, virtual and augmented reality, serious games, and hands-on safety training. These examples include applications in organizations in low- to high-income countries.