Digital Media & E-Learning
Wallerich Safety Shift: Workplace Safety Training
“A workplace safety training project designed to make required safety information clearer, more practical, and easier for employees to apply on the job.”
Project Overview
This project was developed from a workplace safety problem involving a forest-products company that wanted to improve safety performance across a workforce with different levels of experience and formal education. I designed a self-paced training concept covering accident investigation, safe lifting, fall protection, eye protection, and emergency planning while connecting the learning objectives to workplace performance.
Audience
Employees with varied experience and educational backgrounds
Role
Instructional Designer
Format
Self-Paced E-Learning
Focus
Workplace Safety and Performance
Challenge
The challenge was to present required safety information to a diverse workforce without making the training overly complicated or difficult to use. Employees needed clear information, realistic examples, and opportunities to recognize hazards and apply safe work practices.
Solution
I developed a self-paced safety training concept that organized the content into five practical safety topics. The design used clear visuals, hazard-identification activities, knowledge checks, OSHA resources, and workplace examples to help employees connect the information to what they actually do on the job.
Featured Artifact
The project storyboard shows how the safety training was organized before development. It includes the instructional sequence, visual ideas, learner interactions, safety content, and assessment activities used to guide the planned e-learning experience.
Design Process
I moved from the workplace problem to the learner needs, then planned the content, storyboard, and final design decisions around practical safety performance.
Performance Problem
Identified the workplace safety problem and the behaviors employees needed to perform correctly.
Learner Analysis
Considered differences in employee experience, education, and familiarity with safety procedures.
Content Planning
Organized the training around five major workplace safety topics.
Storyboard Development
Planned the visuals, activities, examples, interactions, and assessments before development.
Review & Refinement
Reviewed the design for clarity, usability, alignment, and practical workplace application.
Supporting Artifacts
The Approach
I focused on making the safety information clear, practical, and easy to apply. I used Mayer’s multimedia principles and cognitive load concepts to organize the information into manageable sections, reduce unnecessary complexity, and support the content with meaningful visuals, examples, and practice.
Tools Used
Articulate Rise 360
Microsoft Word
Storyboarding
Mayer’s Multimedia Principles
Cognitive Load Theory
OSHA Resources
Assessment Design
Performance Support
Reflection
This project helped me see that safety training needs to do more than present required information. The design has to help employees understand the risk, recognize what safe performance looks like, and apply that information when they return to the workplace.