Presentation Techniques in Occupational Health and Safety Training

The Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331 obliges employers to take all necessary measures, including the prevention of occupational risks, providing training and information, organizing the workplace, supplying necessary tools and equipment, adapting safety measures to changing conditions, and improving the current situation. Within this responsibility, employers ensure that employees receive occupational health and safety training.

According to the “Regulation on the Duties, Authorities, Responsibilities, and Trainings of Occupational Safety Experts,” one of the duties of occupational safety experts is to plan occupational health and safety training for employees in accordance with the relevant legislation, submit it for the employer’s approval, and implement or supervise its application. The effectiveness of the training is crucial in achieving the desired outcomes. Training is the process of imparting knowledge and skills in a specific scientific field or topic, developing and improving competencies.

Presentation techniques training in occupational health and safety is especially provided before starting a job, when changing workplaces or tasks, when changing work equipment, or when applying new technology. Trainings are updated according to emerging and changing risks and are repeated regularly as necessary. According to the “Regulation on the Procedures and Principles of Occupational Health and Safety Training for Employees,” employers are responsible for preparing and implementing training programs, providing suitable locations, tools, and materials, ensuring employee participation, recording attendance in a training attendance sheet, and issuing training certificates to participants at the end of the program.

The regulation identifies the individuals and institutions authorized to provide occupational health and safety training. Field personnel such as occupational safety experts and workplace physicians are required to deliver these trainings. These individuals and institutions include:

• Occupational safety experts and workplace physicians providing health and safety services at the workplace
• The Ministry of Labor and Social Security Education and Research Center
• Universities and training units of public institutions and organizations

As a result of presentation techniques training in occupational health and safety, participants are able to recognize generations and their characteristics, explain training and presentation methods according to generations, understand personality types and traits, explain training and presentation methods according to personality colors, explain the importance of effective communication, determine critical features of training, distinguish the characteristics of learning domains, explain the necessary features of training and presentation objectives with examples, explain the functions of sub-sections of a lesson plan (introduction–development–conclusion), understand visual and verbal support elements, give examples of effective body language usage during lessons, explain basic concepts of measurement and evaluation, explain the principles of training needs analysis, explain the necessity of audience analysis, give examples of techniques to handle difficult participants, describe precautions to overcome stage fright, provide examples of effective eye contact, and finally, explain concepts of organizational culture and sense of belonging.