The Challenges of Contractor Safety Training

02 September 2015

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Whether you’re in construction, mining, energy or utilities, you understand the challenges of making sure everyone on site is recorded and safe. GoContractor has helped some of the largest companies in the world to efficiently deliver orientations to seemingly unmanageable volumes of workers, dispersed across many locations. The challenge lies in having everyone singing from the same ‘company vision hymn sheet’ while also being aware of hazards and responding to them accordingly. Oh, and you need this information to be in their heads from the minute they walk in the door to ensure contractor safety training. Easy? Let’s take a look.

The Challenges of contractor safety training

contractor safety training

Embedding contractor safety training into your culture

We have all been the ‘newbie’ at some stage in our careers, and it can be daunting when you don’t know where the facilities are or who’s who. That’s no different for your contingency workers but the short-term nature of their work means that there is often no structured plan in place to welcome them into the family. In order to achieve collaborative, synchronised productivity from this set of workers, it’s important that they are aware of your vision, the collective mission and what’s expected of them. GoContractor can help to inform your new hires of your company culture, through informative, digestible information on our platform.

Documenting paperwork for Contractor Safety Training

Due to the transient nature of contingency workers, contracting companies often allow a ‘free-flow’ of information without tracking details or sorting out paperwork. Our platform can help with this, by reducing the headache of paperwork and allowing you to reap the cost and effectiveness benefits associated with dealing effectively with paperwork. Furthermore, dealing with paperwork will allow you to retrieve information if required for audit or in the unfortunate case of an accident.

Safety and Health

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New legislation and self-governance means that contracting companies across the globe are responding to pressure to treat their contingency workforce with the same care they afford to their direct employees. Because accidents tend to happen to workers who are less familiar with their surroundings, there is an even greater need to educate contractors and temporary employees on the hazards they may face while carrying out their work. For contractors who work for your company for longer periods of time, refresher training is required to ensure that knowledge is retained and safe behaviours continue. Our platform is specifically designed for this purpose, allowing your company to send reminder emails to contractors for additional training.

Bringing them up to speed quickly

Due to the short-term nature of contingency workers, traditional learning and development methods are more difficult to apply. However, short term workers may require less depth in terms of the content being delivered so there is an opportunity to use technology to quicken the process while still ensuring the required standard of knowledge is reached. Our platform can be accessed anywhere, online and on the go. Our adaptability is what will ensure your contractors are up to speed quickly. You can read more about that here.

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Sonya Sikra

Sonya is the Brand Strategy Manager at GoContractor. She specializes in communicating how implementing tech in construction can drive productivity and profit.

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