Workplace training is a cornerstone of organisational health and safety across nearly every sector. For teams operating in potentially dangerous environments, including construction, manufacturing, and rail, the lessons learnt during workplace training are literally life-saving.
But in order to conduct truly effective training programmes, organisations need data about their workers’ environment, their routines, and their behaviours. This kind of personalised data enables teams to gain a broader understanding of workplace patterns and trends, it also facilitates the creation of more impactful health and safety planning for individuals, teams, and departments.
In this article, we’ll explore the key ways that wearable technology drives more relevant, more impactful training initiatives for occupational health and safety.
Data-Driven Training Plans Improve Workplace Performance and Increase Employee Engagement
A recent study from Deloitte found that “78% of organizations that use performance data report improved training effectiveness.” One analysis of the study explains how “performance data transforms training from a generic exercise into a strategic initiative” by enabling organisations to create more targeted, more impactful training programs. According to the team at Innov, a skills-building and talent analytics solution, additional benefits of using performance data to improve training outcomes include increased employee engagement, greater employee retention, and increased likelihood of innovation.
Real-time, Personalised Data Supports Better Learning Journeys
With workplace wearable technology and access to powerful Analytics, teams gain access to real time, personalised data about their workers’ exposure to workplace risk. This data can be used to identify broad patterns, trends, and hotspots, but it can also be used to develop tailored health and safety training for individual team members.
By drilling down into team members’ analytics profiles, organisations can identify workers’ unique strengths, weaknesses, and behaviours. This, in turn, enables organisations to create the kind of hyper-relevant training plans that drive better, more impactful training experiences.
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Workplace Wearables Measure Training Effectiveness and Create Opportunities for Continuous Improvement
The ability to quickly receive, analyse, and implement feedback is a critical component of whether and to what extent that feedback is ultimately effective. And frequent, small doses of feedback are proven to be more effective than periodic feedback which can require ‘massive overhauls’ of behaviour or processes.
One clear benefit of using workplace wearables to support training initiatives is the speed of the feedback loop. Wearable technology that captures personalised data in real-time enables organisations to obtain instant feedback about the effectiveness of their training and controls. And this, in turn, makes it possible for teams to iterate rapidly and achieve results faster.
Leveraging wearable technology, such as R-Link, to inform your training initiatives is an incredibly effective way to improve performance across your organisation. By adopting workplace wearable technology, teams gain access to a source of real-time, personalised data which they can use to build better individual training plans, to measure training effectiveness, and to create opportunities for continuous improvement.
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