Benefits of Producing Workplace Fire Safety Training Video Content

As a manager or business owner, you might initially expect that by placing fire extinguishers around the business, and installing smoke detectors, you’ve done your part to ensure workplace fire safety, but do your workers know what to do in the event of a fire? Producing a workplace fire safety training video that will teach your crew the importance of workplace fire safety and what’s expected of them in the event of a fire can have several major benefits. Beyond informing workers of the dangers involved where fire is concerned, training videos can also help workers learn how to behave in the event of a fire and what they can do to protect themselves and others.

Certainly, there are several major benefits that come along with producing a workplace fire safety training video. In addition to the benefits of providing well-needed workplace fire safety training, video provides its own unique training benefits. Ultimately, providing fire safety training could be the different in life and death should a fire breakout at your place of business.

Scenarios-Based Training Improves Worker Decision Making

One of the greatest benefits of producing a workplace fire safety training video is in the improved decision making that your workers will have from the training they receive. Workplace safety training videos that include scenarios-based training can be used to teach employees how to react to fire in the workplace. These types of interactive training videos are great for helping employees learn about the different scenarios to expect should a fire occur and they provide immediate insight into what happens when employees make various decisions in response to fire at work.

For example, scenarios-based training videos can be used to provide insight into what employees should do if fire breaks out while they are at work. The interactive elements of the video will provide employees with choices which allow them to decide the behavioral path that they believe is most suitable for a particular scenario. If the outcome is positive, they immediately see the benefits, but if negative they can immediately see the potential repercussions. This helps to reinforce the importance of the choices that are being made and to encourage proper behaviors in the event of a workplace hazard such as fire.

Accessible & On-Demand Training

A workplace fire safety training video series that is hosted online provides your employees with accessible, on-demand workplace safety training. By making the video content easy to access online, at the convenience or demand of the employees, you’ll increase the likelihood for employees to actually engage in the video content and learn. Unlike training that is provided in a classroom setting, where employees must take time out and attend at a specifically scheduled class time, training videos can be viewed anytime, from anywhere. 

While making training readily available to employees will improve training outcomes for your team, there is another major benefit to producing workplace fire safety training video content. As a business owner, you’ll save time and money with video training. There will be no busy schedules to coordinate for training, and no costly payments to instructors over and over again. A single training series can be recorded and used to provide fire safety training to employees over and over. 

Students can train at their own pace with a schedule that suits them and you can pay for the training once in the production of your video series which can then be used over and over. All you have to do is coordinate the production of your video series, and this one and done solution will provide ongoing workplace fire safety training for your team for years to come.

Increased Learner Retention & Engagement

Another one of the very important benefits of producing a workplace fire safety training video series is the increased learner retention and engagement that comes along with video training. It has been proven that long winded training programs that require employees to train for several hours at a time do not tend to stick well with the employees. They actually have been found to forget most of what they learn within the first 60 days. 

However, when training is provided via video, learners are more likely to retain what they are taught. They have stronger understanding of the topics that are being expressed to them and they are more likely to engage in video training which helps them to remember the content long term. Should an employee struggle to recall an important concept, they can receive additional training at any time by re-watching the video training that is most appropriate to their educational needs.

As you can see, there are many benefits that come along with producing a workplace fire safety training video in addition to the typical benefits that are to be expected from workplace training. The use of video improves employee retention, increases engagement, and makes training readily accessible for employees on their time. Video training also saves the business owner money when compared to in-person, classroom style training programs. 

Ready to produce your workplace fire safety training video series? Give Beverly Boy Productions a call! We can’t wait to help you create top quality training content for your employees.