How to measure safety training effectiveness? Towards a more reliable model to overcome evaluation issues in safety training

Recently, safety training evaluation has received increasing attention. This is due both to the new Italian government guidelines and laws, and to the fact that a growing number of companies have started to perceive safety training as an investment. Many models have been published in the scientific literature on how to evaluate training in general, but less attention has been paid specifically to safety interventions and safety training. The aim of this paper is to develop a new model, which could help organizations in evaluating the effectiveness of training activities using both qualitative and quantitative data. The model is composed of different tools and it is based on the mixed methods approach, which combines quantitative and qualitative measures to provide a better understanding of research problems. Using this approach and collecting a large amount of data, it could become possible to create a national public database, which could be used to on a large scale to monitor the effectiveness of training activities and improve them.