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Days until the last accident: 0.
There are three million reported cases of private workplace injuries yearly. That’s a statistical certainty for a company of 100 workers to have at least 1 work-related injury. That number multiplies per hundred employees.
You’re going to need more band-aids. Or invest in a better way of keeping your employees safe. Train your new recruits and tenured employees with online safety courses.
Keeping the safety of your employees in mind, these are the benefits of online courses.
1. Easy Updates
The woes of having safety meetings and printed handbooks are time and money. It costs companies a lot of working hours to host seminars for training. Hard-copy handbooks rarely get read, and they cost a fortune to print and update.
Safe workspace compliance is constantly evolving. Different regulations trickle in from OSHA to accommodate changes in work environments. Companies with online courses aren’t tasked with conveying these changes to their employees.
Everything is done by course administrators. Online courses allow for instant updating, company-wide. Nothing needs to be crossed out, rewritten, or researched internally.
2. Less Costly
It’s a new age. Not updating your methods of training your employees isn’t good practice.
The digital era has brought with it convenience. And convenience in business usually translates to cost-saving measures.
Calculate all of the costs of training your employees manually:
- Time costs of manual training; minutes compared to hours
- Material prices
- Seminar costs: food, entertainment, etc.
- Production costs: creating training activities, models, visuals, etc.
Doing this each time for a new set of safety regulations is unquestionably pricey.
All of this doesn’t include court fees and worker-comp. If your employees aren’t trained to code, it can result in hefty settlements.
3. Dodging Penalties
Big Brother and his friend OSHA are sticklers for compliance.
Not adhering to regulations will result in hefty penalties and fines. These penalties can accrue a pretty big bill for non-compliant companies. It’s imperative to have all of your safety regulations updated.
You know the costs of updating antiquated systems of safety training. Have a company like SafetySkills update your systems. A third-party provider makes it their job to keep your employees safe and up to date.
4. Multilingual Online Safety Courses
OSHA requires workplaces to clearly convey safety regulations to all employees.
Got any international employees or workers that aren’t English fluent? You’ve gotta keep them safe, too. It wouldn’t be sane to manually update your safety courses for so many languages.
Online courses have language toggles. Depending on the course provider, safety is available in all languages.
5. Employees Will Actually Learn About Safety
Hands-on course work is engaging. Compare it to your team cramped into a seminar room listening to a speaker yap. Those days are a real snooze.
With interactive, digital courses, videos, activities, and quizzes engage the employee.
Impaired employees benefit from a more controlled method of training. They can turn up the volume, zoom in, and take the course at their own pace.
Days Since Last Accident: 1
Keep your employees safe. But do it with online safety courses.
Courses administered online offer easy updates and lower costs. The updates will keep your company compliant. Online services are multi-lingual and are easier learning resources.
Stand up in business, make your workplace safer and healthier!
