Prioritizing Worker Safety-How Investing in E-Learning can Benefit Organizations

As employees become more alert to health and safety risks in the workplace, particularly in light of COVID-19, a safety conscious culture has become more important than ever to ensure workers have the confidence that their organization is taking action and that they’re being cared for.

Businesses, large and small, have a fundamental duty of care to protect workers and the contractors they use. And while a safety program of processes, protocols and guidance can help to mitigate risks and reduce injury and illness, every employee must be fully invested and committed to workplace safety.

The Key to Improving Safety Performance

With 98% of safety leaders saying that more front-line participation is vital when it comes to improving safety performance and building a strong safety culture, Cognibox’s end-to-end contractor management, training, and employee compliance solutions put the employer and employee front and centre with workforce health and safety.

A global risk management and supply chain leader, named in the top 20 companies in Canada for its solutions and E-Learning, Cognibox supports organizations in their drive towards a safer and more efficient work environment and helps businesses manage risk across their supply chains.

Recently acquired by global market-leading Health, Safety and Risk Management provider Alcumus, Cognibox also supports businesses by helping strengthen organizations’ safety culture with critical training across the workforce that can help save lives and set a strong path on the journey to zero incidents, injuries and fatalities.

Investing in Safety Training

In order for workplace safety to be truly effective, education and implementation needs to start at the top to set up workplaces for safety success. Investing in safety training, which should begin when an employee first joins the organization, makes good business sense, especially as the financial and indirect costs of getting it wrong continues to rise.

Yet despite these clear benefits, currently 20% of Canadian businesses do not offer safety and orientation programs which are required legally for new workers. It’s worth noting as well that 3,800 fatalities occurred in Canadian workplaces between 2017 and 2020. (Angus Reid, commissioned by Threads of Life 2022).

When it comes to education, digital safety learning provides invaluable training across an organization so that people know how to work safely and without risks to health. It contributes to a positive health and safety culture, where safe and healthy working becomes second nature, and it creates confidence that you’re meeting your legal duty to protect the health and safety of the workforce.

● A properly trained employee is a safe employee

● A winning safety culture is a competitive advantage

● Compliance is centred when safety is a part of your everyday culture

● Employee morale boost means reduced employee turnover

● An increase in efficiency and productivity

E-Learning Store

Adopting a technology-led approach to safety learning means that everyone in the organization is aligned with company safety objectives. To make learning more accessible and engaging, Cognibox has released a new E-Learning store.

 ​ Cognibox supports organizations in their drive toward a safer and more efficient work environment and helps businesses manage risk across their supply chains 

The goal of the new platform is to make it easy to use for employers, employees and contractors. The E-Learning store offers a comprehensive range of training opportunities for businesses of all sizes and sectors, leading to safer workplaces that meet and exceed the obligations of a responsible organization.

The store includes more than 400 online training courses, including specific courses that focus on hiring clients, plus essential health, safety and environment training as well as free bite-sized learning segments on risk management.

Organizations can also benefit from turnkey services for the development of new E-Learning courses—using a cloud-based platform for hosting and managing employee compliance through the Cognibox Online Training Platform. 

A global approach

With too many preventable workplace accidents still happening every year, organizations need to be proactive about risk management. Regardless of the sector or activity risks, there should be a strong focus on prevention to create a better awareness of health risks and the importance of safety in the workplace, which makes the entire company more efficient.

With a client-centric approach that serves over 300,000 members and supports businesses in over 30 countries, the team at Cognibox brings a combination of experience, expertise and solutions that are based on global best practices, industry trends and regulatory requirements.