THE POWER OF REFRESHING

At primary school, you’ve had to learn the tables by heart and you had to be able to recite them so many times that you didn’t need to think about it anymore. 1 x 8 = 8, 2 x 8 = 16, 3 x 8 = 24, and so on.

Or how about the German cases, articles and prepositions you had to learn at secondary school – Der, die, das. An, auf, hinter, neben, in, über, unter, vor and zwischen. Ich bin, du bist, wir sind – and so on and so forth. Remember the Dutch and English alphabet you had to learn by heart. All this knowledge has been ingrained in your brain and pops up automatically when needed. You don’t even think about it.

In advertising, a well known phrase is: “Repetition empowers the message”. If you repeat the message often enough, you will remember it. However, when we take a new training, a lot of the information will stay in our short term memory and we actually remember only a small part of it. It is for a reason that ERO’s for instance, are required to take a refresher or a rehearsal course every year in order to keep their skills and knowledge up-to-date.

How can we ensure that people working in riskful industries keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date? How can we make sure that the knowledge they have gathered during training will have a lasting impact on their brain? Luckily, our refresher training programs will safeguard this. Such as the Permit to Work, the Task Risk Analysis and the Last Minute Risk Analysis. Use them to your advantage!