Over my career in S&H and Emergency Response, I have seen the proliferation of “on-line” training get out of control in the past 10 years. Seems the sellers have sold the on-line delivery method as the “silver bullet” – the answer to all the training woes within an organization. Heck even OSHA has allowed some of their outreach training to be done on-line. But this summer, OSHA issued an LOI that makes it CLEAR…
… the use of online training by itself would not be sufficient to satisfy OSHA training requirements unless that training contains interactive and hands-on components.