For years, a lot of safety programs have treated training as though the administrative finish line was the real finish line. Assign the course. Deliver the talk. track attendance. Save the record. Move on. That model is easy to manage, and it does solve one problem: it helps prove that training occurred. What it does not solve is the harder problem that safety leaders eventually run into anyway. Can the worker actually perform the task safely, recognize the hazard in context, and respond properly when the job stops behaving like the training example? OSHA’s own materials point toward that distinction […]