Safety Action Plan: Putting Together the Pieces to Safety

Safety Action Plan

In this concept project, I was hired to design an elearning solution for a school. I collaborated with an SME at the campus that specialized in safety protocols. We met on 2 occasions to determine the problem and identify the best solution. At the end of the 2nd meeting, we completed our ADDIE layout and found that a short learning module with a scenario based practice and quiz would be the best course of action to allow learners to see the modifications to the Campus Safety Action Plan and utilize their knowledge in scenario based situations and a quiz.

We determined that the goal of the module would be:

  • By the end of the month, all learners will be able to implement and follow all modifications to the new SAP in drills and live situations.

    Explore how the ADDIE Model influenced the design process below.

The Process

Here is a step by step walkthrough of the design process for this project using the ADDIE model.

  • To begin the process, the SME and I reviewed a report by an emergency responder that highlighted areas of improvement based on results from the previous month's safety drills. The information from the report noted that our audience was proficient in all areas except Fire Drills and Lockdowns. Based on these findings, the emergency responder also suggested modifications to the SAP that can make the Fire and Lockdown drills more efficient.

    With this information, we decided to reframe our learning experience to only focus on Fire and Lockdown drills. We wanted to reduce cognitive load in the learning experience by removing areas where learners were already proficient and only focus areas that need improvement.

  • During the design process, I reviewed the notes taken during the analysis stage in order to focus on the goal that the SME and I set during the initial meetings.

    With this in mind, I decided to reframe the learning experience to only focus on Fire and Lockdown drills. The idea behind this decision is to reduce cognitive load on the learner by removing content where they were already proficient and only focus areas that need improvement.

  • Gagne's 9 Events were referenced to provide structure for this learning experience.

    Inform learners of the objective: The learning objective was presented at the beginning of the module to provide a clear goal and direction for the experience.

    Stimulate recall of prior knowledge: Learners were presented with the old SAP in order to provide an anchor point before being shown the changes to the plan.

    Presenting the content: Changes to the SAP were presented in the same manner as the old SAP, but with the new modifications in a different color font to increase visibility.

    Eliciting performance: Learners were given the opportunity to utilize their knowledge of the new SAP through 2 likely scenarios. Scenarios were designed to be relevant and realistic to ones that the audience would be put in.

    Providing feedback: Learners were given feedback based on the answers they chose in both scenarios. The feedback given gave learners an opportunity to see the degree of correctness of their answer and what would likely happen next in the scenario.

    Assessing performance: Learners were given a short quiz to assess their knowledge of the new changes to the SAP. Based on their score, they were given the option to end or restart the module.

  • When the module was completed and reviewed by the SME, it was posted on the employee LMS as an asynchronous learning experience.

  • The evaluation of the success of the learning module will be assessed when the campus' new SAP is utilized in the next monthly drill and the report from those drills is disaggregated.