A pub style quiz with multiple choice answers can be popular. The key is always to get them to be doing things instead of you telling them things.

I suggest meaningful health and safety is not fun or sexy, it's about ensuring people don't get hurt. Don't get me wrong, I like a good laugh and a joke as much as anyone else and when I provide training I always look to engage participants - but it's definately not a fun session. I wonder if people ask accounts, legal, HR, etc, if they present a 'fun' training session?

Preventing/ minimising the incidence of death, injury and disease associated with work is serious business, so it's absolutely appalling to read here that some people have notions about making H&S training fun!! Seriously though - the fact that far too many people have attended H&S training sessions consisting of a trainer doing all the talking and boring them rigid, especially about details they don't need, has helped to give OSH a bad name. Therefore, any ways such as quizzes and other participatory exercises which can help to make training more engaging, interesting and relevant for people are worth pursuing. There's also a chance that they might be more likely to remember and heed the content of the training. Also, the pre-information and/or start of some training sessions could start with a mock apology along the lines of "if you come expecting to be bored, told in minute detail about what the law says, (etc.) you are likely to be very disappointed - so we had better let you know now and apologise!" Graham B

I agree, the card game sounds good. You'll need to plan it well and do some trial runs to see how well it works I think.

That's a really good idea. I might pinch it too :-) It's never a bad idea to introduce some levity into training sessions. A good trainer can get their point across without resorting to droning on all day, with 300 powerpoint slides. The key is getting the participants to think about things, and if games help that, then good for you. You sound like you have a good handle on how to do these things,

I,ve often wondered if you could have a H&S cluedo game - it was the manager with a broken set of steps in the store room! But I guess H&S also lends itself to "whodunit" but may need more time. People could dress up. I would guess it depends on the message you want to impart?

I have found that issuing red and green cards to everyone at the beginning of the course is quite useful. They use these to agree or disagree with items and ideas, to express when their happy or have finished a task or to express when they need more time. Obvious for these cards your training needs to be very interactive, but it gives them something to do or play with all the way through the course because you can just ask randomly "is everyone ok with that?" and hold up a green card and then they all scrabble to hold up their green cards. It breaks up the monotony.

Hats off to you Davey Gee, that you are not only trying something different but you have POLITELY disagreed with those that say it can't/shouldn't be fun. You could have some great interactive group activities going on and maybe have the odd 'YouTube' clip of accidents/incidents going wrong to reiterate the potential implications that could happen if they take short cuts (which you could link back to your activities). I believe if you are approachable and care and can get the correct message across to your audience in your own manner that suits your style, then go for it. Please post how it all went and any feedback you get from those attending and your line manager. Good luck!