Safety training main objectives

Labor-intensive public works programs have two main objectives first, to provide a source of income to poor workers, and second, to construct or rehabilitate public infrastructure. In the safety net literature, the shorthand term public works is often used for such programs.Sometimes the term workfare is used, although some reserve that term for programs that are more closely linked to labor activation programs that provide job search, training, or apprenticeships than the sort of heavy construction labor that is the traditional mainstay of labor-intensive public works. For a list of workfare programs, see table B.4 in appendix B. 

Safety training may be incorporated into routine skills training, or may be delivered as a separate training programme the main objectives should be ... 

Personnel-related measures to reduce the frequency of human errors and promote safe behaviour include personnel selection, education and training, and safety campaigns and performance feedback (Salvendy, 1987, Sanders and McCormick, 1992). There are three main objectives of the personnel-related counter-measures ... 

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