At this point, there should be no doubt about the reach of videos published to YouTube. To that point, our growing audience includes Singapore’s Workplace Safety and Health Council (WSHC), whose Senior Manager very politely contacted us for permission to post our Compressed Gas Cylinder Safety clip on their iWSH Portal. Permission granted.
Display it in good health, WSHC, and we wish you great success promoting safety in Singapore.
The start of a new school year is just around the corner and that gives us the perfect opportunity to sharpen our knowledge of a number of important safety topics. Our new School Safety Combo-Pack is designed to provide training in areas especially relevant to those working in public or private schools, universities, or day-care centers.
The six DVD set consists of the following courses:
Asbestos Awareness
Bloodborne Pathogens
Electrical Safety General Awareness
Fire Extinguisher Safety
Ladder Safety
Lead-Based Paint Safety
Be prepared. Train your staff on these important safety concepts, practices, and procedures.
The newest offering from Convergence Training is called Overhead Crane Basics. This course introduces industrial workers to how floor-controlled overhead industrial cranes operate and the basic safe operating procedures for working with them or around them. Training includes:
One of our primary resources has been Frederick “Rick” Heath, of Heath and Associates. Rick is a forensic expert and consultant on industrial machines, specifically lifting equipment like cranes and forklifts. His long-time expertise in manufacturing and engineering has been of great assistance throughout this production. During the writing portion, he helped us with questions about OSHA regulations and ASME standards and how they pertained to overhead cranes. During the multimedia phase, we worked with Mr. Heath to ensure that the 3D crane animations were visually accurate from a “real world” perspective.
Watch a sample of the crane video below, and see what makes Convergence training different.
We’ve been posting clips and samples of our training videos to YouTube for years now, and all the while we’ve been using a page that was never really properly branded as “Convergence Training’s YouTube Page.”
Well, now that’s changed. We’ve created a brand new Convergence Training YouTube page, and you can now view our videos or subscribe by visiting Convergence3dVideos on YouTube.
We’ve released 8 new courses already this summer and we’ve been posting samples of everything, so if you’re a subscriber and you want to keep being notified when we upload new videos, you’ll want to head to the new page and re-subscribe there. Next week we’ll be turning kdellavalle’s page back over to kdellavalle, and the Convergence videos will no longer be available there.
Visit http://www.youtube.com/user/Convergence3dVideos to view the new page.
Hot on the heels of our 5 courses released last month, the Convergence Training production team continues to deliver. We’re proud to announce these 3 NEW Environmental Health and Safety courses now available at BuyBetterTraining.com and soon through our authorized network of resellers:
Overhead Industrial Crane Safety
Hot Work Permit
Emergency Action Plans
Check out this sample video from the Overhead Industrial Crane training below.
These new courses represent our continuing goal of improving the quality of each new course and raise the bar for the entire training industry. So check out all of our newest courses, including Safety & Health Basic, Safety & Health Advanced, Hydraulic Fluid Safety, Hot Work Safety, and Lead-Based Paint Safety at BuyBetterTraining.com.
And we’ve got even more courses lined up for release later this summer, so stay tuned to find out what’s coming next.
It’s that time of year, when temperatures skyrocket and heat-related injuries and lost time at work increase with the rising mercury. And this season, the majority of the U.S. is being hit especially hard with record temperatures. So, since our goal is to get you the training tools you need to help reduce injuries and lower costs, we’re feverishly working on one of our latest courses, Heat Stress Awareness.
Our Heat Stress Awareness course will include important information on:
We’ll keep you posted on its official release date.
If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we recently released our new Convergence Server Enterprise Learning Management System (LMS). And we’re happy to report that initial customer reviews from the field have been very positive!
As we’ve delivered the LMS to our customers, we’ve heard from people with many different roles: training managers, IT and HR leads, department and team heads, workers, and more. It’s been exciting for us to meet with everyone and to see their own excitement when they realize what our new LMS can do for them.
Here is a small sample of some of the feedback we’ve gotten:
“Convergence is the missing link of training. This new LMS finally brings everything together for me.”
“The LMS paid for itself in one week by reducing employee overtime related to training.” (Woah – this one caught even us off guard!)
“I can see how this will make my job easier.”
If you still haven’t checked out the Convergence Server Enterprise LMS, we invite you to do it now to see why our customers are raving. Key benefits of the LMS include:
Find out more about our new Learning Management System on our website.
We’re excited to announce that two new modules have made it through production and are currently available from our online store:
Safety and Health – Basic
Safety and Health – Advanced
Both courses focus on explaining key safety information to employees, and both help fulfill the Safety and Health Programs elective in the OSHA 10 requirements for General Industry. Check out the following sample from the Safety and Health – Basic video:
Safety and Health – Basic topics include:
Safety and Health – Advanced topics include:
These modules will be an essential addition to your workplace safety training program. They’re both available now from BuyBetterTraining.com
Work on our Hydraulic Fluid Safety video is finally complete and we’ve posted a sample clip to YouTube for you to preview. You can check it out below.
Hydraulics are critical in today’s world. Production at many modern workplaces would screech to a halt without them. But hydraulics can also pose hazards, and even cause injuries or deaths, if they’re not understood and used properly.
To get your workforce up to speed on hydraulics, our new module explains:
The new Hydraulic Fluid Safety video can be purchased, along with the rest our fine catalog of environmental and industrial health and safety videos, from BuyBetterTraining.com.
We’re always hard at work producing new courses for our ever-expanding library of environmental and industrial health & safety videos, and today we’re happy to announce the completion of five brand new additions to our catalog.
The new courses, Safety & Health Basic, Safety & Health Advanced, Hydraulic Fluid Safety, Hot Work Safety, and Lead-Based Paint Safety, were designed to follow OSHA 10-Hour safety training guidelines and are intended to provide workers with the tools necessary to make smart decisions regarding safety in the workplace.
The creation of these courses followed a typical Convergence production timeline. Months of storyboarding & writing, followed by the tireless 3D & compositing work of our talented media artists, led to our extensive standards & review process. After making the necessary tweaks, cuts, and twists, the review process was followed, at long last, by today’s release of the new training materials.
Look for more details and samples of the new videos in coming posts.
Convergence Training would simply like to thank the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless once again for the work they do to target the root causes of homelessness – limited access to affordable housing and too few living wage jobs in the Chicago area.
We’d also like to especially thank Michael Nameche, their Development Director, for being such a pleasure to work with and for personally transporting the furniture from our ASSE Safety 2011 Expo booth to the two women transitioning to an apartment from the homeless shelter.
Check it out. Our friends at Caterpillar are promoting our MSHA Part 46 safety training products over on the homepage of their website. Cat has always maintained a strong focus on safety and we’re proud to be teamed up with them to help bring high-quality training materials to a broader market.
Check out the MSHA safety library over at ShopCatSafety.com, if you haven’t already.