Construction industry, often termed as ‘high-risk’, has a significant impact on the health and safety of the workers. Though it is common to see a construction worker work at heights with equipment and building materials, these scenarios are plagued by potentially dangerous situations and poor working conditions.
E-learning communicates a uniform message across its target audience and enables a higher degree of coverage. As these learnings are in sync with the modern learners, they enhance their ability to learn and implement new processes at workplace. Here is when the behavioral change takes place.
Employees are the substance to their vision and ensure that their travel remains smooth all along. The health of the employees have a direct effect on the company’s profits. When industries develop understandings in this sense, they benefit in the process of ‘engagement with the workforce’.
In EHS and OHS circles, we often get purchase from within by talking about the work culture. The work culture which should engender safety, focus on workforce wellbeing and serve environment for longevity. A similar trait needs to be identified to address behavioural successes linked with digital domain.
Safety trainings must involve the importance of safe practices such as Lock-out Tag out, Permit-to-work, incident management, near-miss management, reporting practices etc. Every company aims for zero-casualty and to achieve this, it must ensure that each person at the facility works under safe conditions.
The age of automation, AI technologies and other avenues are offering new job opportunities. The term ‘disruption’ has evolved in every field; and to weather such disruptions, it is implicit that men and women would need targeted support to be skilled, mobile and tech-savvy.