Imminent to a screen near you: safety training by smartphones is nearly here
by Ian Pemberton
Think back a decade. Mobile telephones were simply that: mobile phones. Laptops were twice as thick and weighed just as much as a computer. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn were glimmers in the eyes of the one day technology experts.
Yet, in one decade, technology in communications has seen one of the biggest leap forward in development since the introduction of the PC. The greatest growth in the last few years has been the creation of the iPad by Apple and the many other products which have followed lately from similar companies. Its been known for a while from the technology business that touch screen devices are the way forward and are forever attempting to perfect the device.
However, the only company to make a profit on the tablet was Apple, in 1987 it was also the forerunner with the launch of touch screen PDA Newton, which was stylus driven with handwriting recognition. Sony then almost got ahead from all the rivals with a Wi-Fi micro tablet in 2004.
But it was only when the iPad was created with its appealing designs and tablet like functioning structure that the consumer marketplace woke up and many people queued wanting to be the amongst the first to get one. Though you do not need an iPad to have all that new functionality and control; it is inbuilt into lots of smartphones that have more processing control than a PC had ten years before and have quickly come to overshadow the phone market.
The early adopter for new technology is always the consumer market; the industry follows when the technology has become established and ripened. Businesses usually wait for the format battle to stop and choose the winning program. Preceding wars included Blu Ray vs high definition DVD and Beta vs VHS.
The war at the moment for tablet devices places google sponsored open source Andriod technology used in the newest handheld offering from makers such as Apples iOS platform against Acer and Motorola, initially made for the iPhone and now as well the iPad.
Generation Y
All this affects health & safety training as technology grows, training has had to adapt also to stay current to its audience. Mobile device technology has the chance to alter the way we deliver safety training programmes. This age of employees going into the workplace is the first to have grown-up with electronic contact, email, text, google, online social media sites and interactive voting no matter where they physically are.
To engage with these users we must develop the way we train. As Bridget Leathley proposes in her article, inactive "chalk and talk" courses are no longer an effective way of training. Audiences want to be engaged in their teaching and feel enhanced by the practise.
The initial steps into new teaching has been via E-learning. Training courses via the web, keep test scores, track training while giving risk analysis for each employee. The last few years has seen e-learning make big developments, providing companies with vital savings in cost compared to traditional training and a robust audit trail of teaching and risk assessments that is crucial for all compliance training.
The newest generation of e-learning services also includes editable programmes, allowing industries to edit the course to their specific businesses without the typical prohibitive production prices. It also contains authoring tools, enabling companies to make their own content and provide it to their employees with pictures of their precise work spaces, their own policies and procedures and company images and tone.
If you would like to hear more about how your business can benefit from online health and safety training, then click here to view a free video about <a href='http://safetyonlinecourse.co.uk/'>health and safety qualifications online</a>.
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Title: Imminent to a screen near you: safety training by smartphones is nearly here
Author: Ian Pemberton
Email: ian@humanfocus.co.uk
Keywords: health and safety, new technology, online training, safety courses
Word Count: 582
Category: Business
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