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Cut risks and improve effectiveness.

The Health and Safety Executive states that over 1 million injuries and 2.3 million cases of ill-health are experienced by workers, losing around 40 million working days, with 25,000 people being forced to give up work permanently. This costs employers an estimated £3.3 to £6.5 billion each year. So, aside from the personal impact, it makes good business sense to ensure all staff in an organisation take seriously their responsibility for keeping the work place safe.

Ensuring staff take health and safety seriously is a challenge for all organisations. Like any regulatory subject training is typically mandatory and is too often delivered in a dry, stark format that focuses more on getting the compliance tick in the box than ensuring attitudes and behaviour are correctly aligned with company policy.

Your organisation may be at risk of expensive legal action and fines if you and your staff can’t positively answer the following:

Do you have detailed and accurate records of health and safety training undertaken by your staff?
Do staff (and contractors) receive training immediately as they arrive at their place of work or even pre-arrive?
Are existing staff aware of the risks in their environment, whether it be in the office or out and about?
Do staff understand how to use their PC and visual screens safely?
Do you really know what to do in the event of a fire?
Does everyone understand the risks when driving and the use of mobile phones?
Are staff vigilant to the effects of work-related stress?

These are just a selection of the topics we have covered in health and safety courses designed to meet the specific needs of our clients.

Our approach

Our e-learning design focuses on providing the context and personal message that will encourage staff to understand the importance of taking health and safety seriously. Through the use of tough, realistic scenarios set within your organisation, we can make it easy for staff to relate to their own immediate work environment.

Through the appropriate use of audio, video and interaction, you can deliver a powerful message to a wider audience at the time of need. Staff can be individually tracked through the learning content and assessed on their understanding. As well as integrating with learning management systems that your organisation may already have in place, Brightwave offers additional tracking functionality that can provide a full audit trail down to the individual screens viewed and questions answered. This data and reporting can be crucial in the event of a health and safety incident and settling liability. Our clients have saved substantial sums through being able to prove full compliance in the face of legal action.

The benefits

The immediate benefits of using e-learning to support your health and safety activities include:

Full audit trail that proves full compliance at every level.
A consistent and persistent learning programme that staff can complete at the point of need.
A wider audience can be served more regularly so reducing the cost of delivery and extending the reach of your health and safety message.
Health and safety messages can be treated in a more engaging, attitude-shifting manner that will lead to more active awareness of the everyday risks in your workplace, and so reducing the chances of serious incidents occurring.
Health and safety can be integrated/blended into a wider induction programme.

Our clients

Brightwave has developed health and safety programmes for a range of organisations including:

Sky.
BT.
Thus.
ScottishPower.