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5 Reasons to Produce a Medical Emergency Training Video for Your Team

Providing medical emergency training is essential for many organizations, particularly those where the risk for unexpected medical emergencies are quite high. If you’re a business owner that is required by OSHA or other regulatory organizations to provide medical emergency training, or you operate a business where the risk for employees to come into contact with individuals who could suffer from a medical emergency, video is the ideal way to provide essential skills training. In fact, there are many reasons to produce a medical emergency training video that you can use to provide essential training to your team.

Beyond preparing your team to deal with unexpected medical emergencies, the use of a medical emergency training video can have several key benefits over in-person training that might otherwise be offered for your team. To help you decide which type of training is best for your individual circumstances, we’ve outlined several top reasons to consider producing a medical emergency training video that can be used to teach your team how to safely handle unintended medical emergencies.

  1. Video Training Can Simulate Stressful Experiences to Provide Essential Training Under Pressure

One of the most valuable reasons for producing a medical emergency training video is because today’s training videos are so realistic, and feature so many useful interactive elements, that they can produce the kind of stress that a true medical emergency might cause. This is important because putting your team into a position where they have to operate under pressure is essential to ensure they will be properly prepared to deal with a medical emergency when it arises.

The use of simulated medical emergency training video content can provide your team with the skills training they need to be prepared for a real emergency. Interactive features, including branching or path-based learning allow your employees to make decisions under pressure and immediately see the outcome. This type of training prepares employees to properly deal with a wide range of emergency scenarios including accidents, injuries, heart attacks, or other medical emergencies.

  1. Video Training Keeps the Viewer Engaged & Focused

You cannot guarantee that your team will stay focused on training if you were to provide them with a written training manual outlining what the expectations are in the event of a medical emergency. This is because written training for these types of experiences simply isn’t as effective as video based learning can be.

With a medical emergency training video, your team will engage and remain focused from beginning to end ensuring that they are receiving the full training necessary for effective learning. Consider the use of interactive features to further ensure engagement among your team throughout the video training.

  1. Video Training Accommodates Many Learning Styles

Whether you have employees that are different ages, have different reading levels, or otherwise learn in different ways will be much less of a problem if you’re going to provide medical emergency training via video rather than written manual. Video training accommodates a variety of learning styles including audiences that have learning disabilities or who struggle to read. Since 19% of the U.S. adult population reads below average level, this is incredibly important to ensure that your entire team has the most essential training for their needs.

  1. Video Training is Retained Longer than Other Formats of Training

Producing a medical emergency training video is not something that you want to spend time on just for your team to watch once and forget. With video, the odds of your team recalling what they learn, and reusing their training in situations that may arise years later are significantly higher than with other training formats. In fact, video training is known to be retained for longer than in-person training sessions or written training manuals.

For example, if your team were to read a manual, they would likely recall 20% of what they read. If they watch a video, the will recall upwards of 90% or more of what they learn. Likewise, if your team were to endure hours of medical emergency training in person, they would likely forget 60% of it in the first 30 days. With video training, the rate of retention is higher and the timeframe is longer. Plus, if employees forget what they learn, they can retrain at any time by watching the video training once again.

  1. Video Training is Cost Effective & Efficient

As a business owner, you need training that won’t cost a fortune or take up too much of your time. In person training can be both costly and time consuming as you work to schedule a trainer to provide training to your team and attempt to schedule all of your team members to be available for the training. 

With a medical emergency training video, you can provide your team with essential skills coverage that works for them as needed. You’ll spend money to produce the video once, but after production costs, there are no other costs associated with the use of the training. You can provide the video for hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of employees at the single upfront cost of production. And when employees need to retrain, there are no added expenses.

Ready to produce a medical emergency training video for your team? Give Beverly Boy Productions a call! We specialize in the production of top quality training videos that are essential to team growth. 

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