Wall, J, Carney, M, McNamee, F, Madden, D, Hurst, A, Vrasidas, C, Chanquoy, L, Baccino, T, Acar, E, Önwy-Yazici, E and Jordan, A (2007) The delivery of health and safety training applying multiple intelligences using virtual classes. In: Boyd, D (Ed) Procs 23 rd Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2007, Belfast, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 315-323. THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING APPLYING MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES USING VIRTUAL CLASSES John Wall 1 , Mannix Carney 1 , Frank McNamee 2 , David Madden 3 , Alan Hurst 4 , Charalambos Vrasidas 5 , Lucile Chanquoy 6 , Thierry Baccino 6 , Emrah Acar 7 , Ela Önwy-Yazici 7 and Ann Jordan 1 1 Department of Construction and Civil Engineering, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland 2 Multimedia Instructional Design, Waterford, Ireland 3 Blended Learning Design, Longford, Ireland 4 Nottingham Trent University, UK 5 Centre for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology, Cyprus 6 Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France 7 Istanbul Technical University, Turkey The construction industry is a challenging mix of traditional hazards, on standard repetitive construction projects coupled with complex one off landmark projects. There is a compelling moral and business case for training and learning resources addressing health and safety training in the construction industry. A network of educational institutions within Europe have undertaken an initiative that addresses the delivery of health and safety training, using e-learning, on a pan European basis in the construction industry sector. An established training need module, based on an analysis of UK, Irish and Turkish health and safety statistics has been identified. The research work proposes to use the theory of multiple intelligences (MI) which postulates that there are several independent ability areas which individuals possess. The pilot material will be delivered using falls from heights as the subject matter. The development and refinement of the resources will take an action research methodology approach. The expected impact of this initiative is to develop a new innovative framework and educational resource using multiple intelligences that is directly focused on health and safety in the construction industry. Keywords: e-learning, health, multiple intelligences, safety, virtual classes. . INTRODUCTION The construction sector is the world’s largest industrial employer with an estimated 111 million people employed accounting for as much as 10% of GNP (Wall et al., 2007). Construction remains a very labour intensive industry involving hazardous work activities that present an unusually high risk of injury and ill health. Even with technological advances and modern sophisticated plant and machinery, there are still many hazardous tasks to be carried out. More workers are killed injured or suffer ill health in construction than in any other sector (Wall et al., 2007). One of the key initiatives that can make a positive impact on improved health and safety statistics is education and training, both in the classroom and on the job training. Taylor et al. (2006) identified this when investigating the “proof of concept” stage for an e-learning package to teach engineering undergraduates. Their research found from discussions with several major industrial companies the overall response