Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The place of training in the safety program -- Training policy -- The training budget -- Training records -- Injured workers' feedback on their firms' training programs -- Identifying training needs and the training plan -- Buying training-program materials and services -- Ranking workers for training -- Communicating with illiterate and marginally literate workers -- Reaching, new, inexperienced and transferred workers -- Developing instructional objectives -- Identifying the best methods of instruction -- Preparing the course outline and lesson plans -- Selecting and preparing instructors -- Conducting the training sessions -- Evaluating the effectiveness of training -- First-Aid training and the safety and health record -- Involving workers' families and communities -- The effect of information technology on worker training -- The role of high-school industrial-education programs -- Safety and health training initiatives in the United States -- Safety and health training innovations from other nations -- Managerial concerns regarding safety and health training -- Federal sources of relevant information.