SEM 552 - Safety and Health Training
Final Exam – 150 points
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1. You are hired as the new safety trainer at Mom and Pop's Nuclear Power Plant. Based on the reputation M&P's has within the industry and the fact that the old trainer was fired with less than three months on the job, you know that you will have to have develop some safety training programs but you don't know what kind of programs. In lectures [Broadwell's seven steps to better training] and in Mager's text, and finally with the instructor's model, you have learned about the process [steps] necessary for an effective training program. This program [SEM] emphasizes the importance of the management function. Discuss the steps in the training process and describe how each relates to management's functions [planning, organizing, leading or directing, controlling, and evaluating]. (30 pts.)

2. As the safety trainer of the Mom and Pop's Nuclear Power Plant you discover that the folks in the nearby town of Glow-in-the-Dark are very angry with Mom & Pop's. They have found many dead and/or malformed fish and aquatic life in the Mutant River, and they demand that you no longer dump the plant's wastewater in the Mutant. You decide that you need to make major improvements in your company's safety program and that as a first step you will need to train many of the employees in a 5-day program on handling nuclear waste safely. You will have to show the CEO, Mom, how much this will cost in order to justify your budget. You begin with the basic costs for trainee and instructor, and then you remember you have to develop the program, produce the materials, secure AV equipment, rent a room and provide materials, lunch, and snacks to the trainees. Here is the information you gather:

2. What will it cost Mom and Pop's to train two groups of 50 workers each in a 5-day training session? [Show and identify each of your calculations] (40 pts.)

Mom and Pop's Nuclear Power Plant training costs
		Expense items, etc.	Cost or number
		Trainees (per session)	100
		Number of sessions	2
		Trainees' average hourly salary	$25.
		Training Development
		Developers [in this case, the trainers]	2
		Days to develop [per developer]	10
		Number of trainers [instructors] per 5-day session	2
		Trainer's [instructors] daily salary	$300.
		Preparation days [per instructor, per session]	3
		Trainee materials
		Computer software, reusable [per trainee]	$25.
		Books, etc., reusable [per trainee]	$25.
		Expendable material [per trainee]	$5.
		AV equipment
		Purchase	$10,000.
		Audio-Visual equipment rental [per day]	$20.
		Training Room rental [per day]	$100.
		Lunch [per person, per day]	$20.
		Break "snacks & drinks" [per person, per day]	$5.

3-4. As the newly hired Safety Training Manager of the Phydeaux Dog Bisket Company, in Old Orleans, Louisiana. The company has two factories working two shifts each. On your first walk-through of the plants, two things jump out at you at both plants: 1) there are many confined spaces throughout each plant but you find no record of confined space training, and 2) although there are lots of dust particles in the air (from the grains that go into the biscuits and from the biscuits themselves), the workers are not wearing any respiratory protection.

3. Describe your needs assessment and how you determined which of these problem areas to tackle first. Explain "How" you conducted a training needs assessment and "Why" you selected the area to be trained. (20 pts.)

4. Design two training objectives, including at least one [1] PsychoMotor skill, identifying the performance statement, condition and standard. (20 pts.)

5. Describe the needs of adults [workers] and how you would design your training program to meet their needs. (20 pts.)

6. You read Mager and Pipe's book "Analyzing Performance Problems with its flowchart and the instructor discussed similar flowcharts. Describe the importance/value of these flowcharts to training. (10 pts.)

7. What is the difference between a process evaluation and an impact evaluation? (10 pts.)