Hi all,

I am starting next week in a new role as a HSE trainer. Whilst the companys presentations are of a good standard technically there is no interesting grab yoiur attention safety/environmental materials. I was wondering if any members had a good source of ice breakers, photos, video clips etc.that would be suitable.

I shall be doing Risk Assessment training , Introduction to Safety, Behavioural Safety, and Accident Investigation training amongst others.

Appreciate any guidence.

Great ice breaker except you must be really solid on the maths and be able to challenge any clever dick who disagrees with and then you will spend the first 10 to 15 minutes arguing the toss with them and everybody else will be asking themselves the question: “Have I come for a H&S course or a maths lesson?”

To get back on subject ask people them about things like risk perception. Example: “Air liner lands in the Hudson river-nobody dies or is seriously injured but it is front page news around the world-soon to be a film starring Tom Hanks! The train crash in which one person is killed at a level crossing makes the national pages. A person is killed crossing the road-it makes a couple of column inches in the local press. Why is that? Is air travelling more or less dangerous than driving? What is the general perception of people? What is the actual risk?  How much money is spent making flying safe per passenger mile as opposed to making driving safe? Why? “

This will get then to think about things like “Common Sense vs Risk Assessment”.

Aidan

Since you asked for 'source' material,  here are three titles from which you can draw and adapt exercises and obsrvations to your own needs:

'Creaive Events for Trainers',  K Jones, McGrawHill 1997

'Terrific Training Materials. High Impact Graphic Designs', D Frank.  HRD Press 1998

'The Trainer's Toolkit.  Bringing Brain-Fridently Learning to Life'.  K Hare and L Reynolds. Crown House Publishing, 2004.

Originally Posted by: damian2701

Do the same laws of arithmetic apply when you are born on February 29th? How about that for a curve ball!!

Yes, as again this is not based solely on one person testing their birthday against 24 other people, but on each of 25 people measuring their birthdays each 24 times giving 600 possible combinations (25x24=600) and 366 different possible birthdays, including 29th February. This is what the Birthday problme is trying to do - remove perceptions.

We know that someone is less likely to have a birthday on 29th because they only come around once every four years, but all things being equal if we did this a number of times with different groups then there is also likely to be less instances of someone being in the group with that birthday so the odds level themselves out accordingly.

If the question was what is the possibility of someone in a group of 24 other people having the same birthday as me then it is massivley reduced (even more for 29th Feb) as we have only one set day to compare. But in the actual maths problem we have 25 different birthdays which we compare multiple times..

It is a complex problem to explain which is why I wouldn't present it to a roomfull.