Session Title: Are You at Risk? Potential Liabilities and the Legal Side of Training

 

Session Number: 442

 

Room: Fiesta 8

 

Day and Timeslot: Monday - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

 

Formats: Discussion

 

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Session Description: The primary reason for providing effective learning opportunities for employees is to increase the probability of creative and consistent performance on the job. Employers, human resource management and training personnel should be concerned for another reason. This reason involves the prevention of legal liability against the employer and its personnel. In this context, effectively designed and delivered learning programs become an affirmative defense to an allegation of failure to adequately train the organization's employees.

 

• Potential areas of liability and costs for which training is an appropriate solution
• Factors in the design, facilitation and evaluation of training that reduce the potential for liability
• An actual court case demonstrating principles that reduce the potential for liability

 

Led by: John Sample - Sample & Associates

 

John Sample is the Principal Consultant for Sample & Associates and his current research, publications and consulting focus on legal issues associated with workplace learning. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the subject.  Dr. Sample is the author of the recently released book, Avoiding Legal Liability for Adult Educators, Human Resource Developers, and Instructional Designers (Krieger Publishing). He may be reached at john_sample@sampleassociates.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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