The American Rental Association has launched its “Prioritize Safety” monthly video series focused on essential safety tips for the equipment and event rental industry. The goal of the program is to make learning rental specific topics quick, easy and fun, ARA said. Each video is no longer than two minutes in length and has a unique animation style that spans a variety of safety topics including personal protective equipment, chemical safety and defensive driving.
After a rental center employee views the video, he or she will be presented with two questions to test their knowledge on what they just learned. The entire Prioritize Safety series is available in both English and Spanish and can be assigned to employees via RentalU, ARA’s online learning platform. Each month, a link to the new video will be sent out in an email. One can enroll by emailing [email protected] to be added to the mailing list.
The first video covers PPE, the importance of wearing it, and the consequences of not wearing it.
“We are very excited to launch the Prioritize Safety monthly video series,” said ARA director of education Lauren Watts. “These videos offer training that is easy for employees to access, take only minutes to complete, and offer an entertaining spin to make the content more engaging. We hope our members have as much fun taking the training as we did creating it.”
Visit https://www.ararental.org/rentalu to sign into RentalU.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.