Recently there has been a noticeable trend of rising awareness among the employers in Poland of the fact that training on occupational health and safety may to the quality and effectiveness of their business. Providing safe employment is beneficial to both the employer and the employee. Work safety has an influence among others on efficiency, which is in turn one of the fundamental factors affecting the profitability of business activity, especially at the time of crisis. Work safety is important not only at micro but also macroeconomic level as lack of accidents affects the reduction of job costs, the state spends less on accident allowances or rehabilitation benefits. In the traditional approach to training focus was placed only on the training content regardless of the assessment of its effectiveness, and particularly the quality of training measured as the assessment given by the trainee. This study presents a proposition of a new approach consisting in reviewing traditional training on occupational health and safety. This approach aims at improving the quality of training through an appropriately developed training system with the use of e-learning.
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