A five-year worker training program in hospital health and safety has been implemented in the public hospital system in Costa Rica. A training-of-trainers (TOT) methodology, grounded in the principles of adult learning, has been used to develop a cadre of trainers in local hospitals who are presenting basic hospital safety training modules. Since September 1999, over 1300 hospital workers in 9 hospitals have been trained in basic health and safety, and local trainers have presented the same TOT training in Venezuela in July 2001. The training program and methodologies will be presented in detail, and plans for replicating the program in other countries in Latin America will be discussed
Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1) describe the current safety training needs in public hospitals in Costa Rica; 2) identify different methodologies used to conduct training of trainers in these settings; and 3) identify the criteria for successful models of human resource development in occupational health in Latin America.
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