Workplace Training is now cheaper and more effective than ever

The costs businesses incur when having to send employees on training days as well as the employee downtime is a financial burden every business faces.

Every business has a legal requirement to provide suitable and sufficient training to help the individual complete the task safely. Safety PAL (PLAN ACT LEARN) wants to highlight to all business owners and directors there is a way to meet standards while:

• reducing your training costs
• allowing you the ability to complete training anywhere anytime
• improving your worker’s productivity – worker knowing what to do and how to do it.
• increasing training frequency
• building the proof you have done so far as is reasonably practicable in preventing harm reducing your risk of prosecution.

How are you achieving compliance without Safety PAL?

Health and Safety training requirements are detailed under The Health and Safety At Work Etc. Act 1974 and the associated Management At Work Regulations 1999 , these regulations + many others apply to every business and workplace in the UK and even apply to workers working from home.

The list of training and quality requirements is an extremely long list. They start with basic slips, trips, falls, manual handling, stress and wellbeing and working from home, training continues through standard elements and very specialised requirements such as electrical, DSEAR, COSHH, LOLER and PUWER.

The current choice companies has, is in bringing in external training organisations to complete sessions in-house, sending workers out on training day sessions (incorporating travelling costs), or e-learning. All of which cost money and create ongoing work for management such as HR, admin and H&S…

Furthermore, when a worker or multiple workers are in a training session they are not working earning the business money and especially for operation managers/directors, they subsequently have reduced staffing levels impacting on the delivery  scheduled jobs.

This unproductive training solution adopted by most companies creates further additional management work as, when a worker receives his/her certificate, administrators have to scan/upload and send to HR to upload to the associated worker’s file.
The company health and safety representative has to then enter the workers training record and renew date into a separate spreadsheet/database created during their time at the organisation – Laborious, time consuming and costly.
And lastly, you may need to issue updated records and certificates to your clients as proof of their subcontractor management controls.

What does this look like as a sum…
Training sum:  Training cost + Downtime + Administration Time + HR Time + H&S time + Client time = £Financial Burden and time constraints.

Reducing your Financial Burden and other constraints

SMARTER, SAFER, FASTER with Safety PAL (PLAN ACT LEARN)

General and specific training: Safety PAL allows you to create and deliver general and specific safety training, quality and contractor induction videos. For on and off-site workers, these can be sent in advance so that on arrival, they can start work immediately.

Competency: To prove competency, Safety PAL requires that you add questions and answers to your videos, to confirm the user’s understanding. This provides the evidence you have done so far as is reasonably practicable.

Manage Certifications and Qualifications: With Safety PAL you can upload all your existing employees’ certifications, qualifications and training records and keep them up to date. This allows you to check a worker is correctly qualified and competent before adding them to a project or task,

Analytic’s: It also has an added bonus of identifying who needs further training and helps you plan future training sessions. If a number of people consistently answer certain questions incorrectly, you can focus training on these areas in future.

Workers CPD: When a worker completes a training session, their individual CPD (Continuing Development Development) profile is automatically updated, allowing managers to instantly monitor workers training and giving the workers full access to all their training records at the touch of a button.

Always in date: Automatic notifications ensure workers training can be planned in advance and never forgotten or out-of-date

Skill Gaps: Safety PAL enables you to identify gaps in your training and helps you to improve training across the entire organisation.

Increase frequency without increasing cost: Employees can confidentially let you know when they require further training. This might be because they haven’t understood a policy or procedure very well or they need more in-depth training in a particular area – fostering a workplace environment that encourages people to ask for assistance if they need it.
The result is a unified team of competent workers who know what you need from them, and how to deliver it.

Training sum with Safety PAL: Training cost + Downtime + Administration Time + HR Time + H&S time + Client time  = £ savings, compliance, proof and positive safety culture.

Seeing Safety PAL in action

You may have already realised the benefits a single-source solution like Safety PAL will bring to you and your organisation, but to be secure and to see how easy Safety PAL integrates into your business, you can watch a short 2minute video ‘A day in the life of Safety PAL’ or book an individual product tour.

What others say about Safety PAL

“There has never been a better time to use the services of Safety PAL to sign in and out of the project due to COVID19”.
Abiola Lasekan MSC. CMIOSH, PIEMA
Siemens Mobility Limited

“Although we have only scratched the surface on the capabilities of Safety PAL, it very quickly improved the delivery of H&S across the business. It helped support the successful implementation of ISO45001 by providing evidence to the auditors of our ability to: validate our legal compliance”
Paul Luker, Spectro Jet-Care 

Other Safety PAL client testimonials can be read here