Workshops
COVE offers several learning opportunities and delivery formats to meet you where you are
Finding The Right Training For You
COVE workshops move beyond traditional safety training to equip participants with practical observation skills that strengthen hazard recognition and risk awareness. Through guided exercises and real-world examples, you’ll learn how to apply Visual Literacy in EHS tools to better interpret what you see, identify subtle hazards, and communicate more clearly with others.
Whether you’re new to Visual Literacy or are looking to begin developing new skills and practicing the toolsets, we offer several learning opportunities to meet you where you are.
- Skills Building -
Seeing Safety: Foundations Of Hazard Idntification
2-Day Live Workshop
Virtual Training
Seeing The Hidden Hazards - Improving Hazard Identification By Applying Visual Literacy
This workshop is a great starting point for anyone looking to better understand Visual Literacy and determine whether this approach may be a fit for their organization.
- Overview -
Introduction to Visual Literacy is a two-hour virtual workshop designed to introduce participants to why people miss hazards that are often hiding in plain sight. Participants explore how visual bias, familiarity, and human perceptions influence what we see and how strengthening observation skills can improve hazard recognition and workplace safety performance.
Through engaging examples and interactive learning experiences, participants receive an introduction to Visual Literacy concepts and discover how stronger observation, interpretation, and communication skills can support safer workplaces.
- Format: Virtual Facilitator-Led Workshop
- Duration: 2 Hours
- Delivery: Open Enrollment or Dedicated Team Sessions
- Class Size: Flexible for individual participants or organizational teams
- Learning Style: Interactive discussion, visual exercises, and practical application examples
- Purpose: Introduce foundational Visual Literacy concepts and demonstrate how they can strengthen hazard identification efforts
Participants will explore:
- What visual literacy is and why it matters
- How the brain controls what we see and why
- How simple tools can be utilized to improve our ability to see hazards
- How we can improve our ability to communicate what we see
This workshop is designed for individuals and organizations interested in learning more about Visual Literacy and exploring how stronger observation capabilities can support hazard recognition and workplace safety performance. As an introductory session, it provides a high-level overview of the concepts, science, and applications behind this unique approach without diving deeply into the tools and methodologies taught in COVE’s Foundations workshop.
Ideal participants include:
- EHS Professionals
- Safety Managers
- Frontline Supervisors
- Operational Leaders
- Trainers and Educators
- Frontline Workers
- Senior Leadership Teams
- Organizations exploring new approaches to hazard identification and safety engagement
This workshop is a great starting point for anyone looking to better understand Visual Literacy and determine whether this approach may be a fit for their organization.
July 14, 2026
Seeing Safety: Introduction to Visual Literacy
2-Hour Virtual Workshop
2PM EST - 4PM EST
September 2, 2026
Seeing Safety: Introduction to Visual Literacy
2-Hour Virtual Workshop
2PM EST - 4PM EST
November 10, 2026
Seeing Safety: Introduction to Visual Literacy
2-Hour Virtual Workshop
2PM EST - 4PM EST
Live Training
Understanding Visual Literacy And Its Application To Workplace Safety
The Foundations workshop is especially valuable for teams seeking to move beyond compliance-based approaches and build stronger observation capabilities that can support long-term safety performance improvements.
- Overview -
Seeing Safety: Foundations of Hazard Identification is a two-day immersive workshop designed to help participants strengthen the observation, interpretation, and communication skills that support more effective hazard identification. Using COVE’s Visual Literacy methodology, participants learn why hazards are often missed, how familiarity and visual bias influence perception, and practical tools that help individuals slow down, see more intentionally, and recognize conditions that may otherwise become part of the background.
Through interactive exercises, facilitated discussion, artwork analysis, and workplace application examples, participants build practical skills that can be directly integrated into existing safety processes and daily operations.
- Format: In-Person Facilitator-Led Workshop
- Duration: 2 Full Days
- Delivery: Open Enrollment or Dedicated Organizational Sessions
- Venue Options: Hosted at The Toledo Museum of Art
- Learning Style: Interactive facilitation, group discussion, visual analysis exercises, gallery exercises, and workplace application activities
- Purpose: Build practical hazard identification capability using Visual Literacy principles and methodologies
Participants will explore:
- Why people fail to see hazards in familiar environments
- The role of visual bias and habituation in hazard recognition
- The foundations of Visual Literacy and observational awareness
- Seeing the Whole PICTURE™ methodology
- The Elements of Art and Principles of Design as tools to improve ‘seeing’ skills
- Objective vs. subjective communication techniques
- Strategies to improve observation quality and hazard recognition
- Applications in workplace environments and safety processes
- Practical exercises designed to strengthen interpretation and communication skills
This workshop is designed for individuals seeking to strengthen hazard identification capability and improve the quality of workplace observation and communication.
Ideal participants include:
- EHS Professionals
- Safety Managers
- Frontline Supervisors
- Operations and Reliability Leaders
- Safety Trainers
- Incident Investigation Teams
- Maintenance and Production Teams
- Frontline Workers
- Organizations focused on proactive safety and SIF prevention initiatives