Whether in construction, transportation, or manufacturing, keeping employees safe is a key concern for all of us. In human terms, we all want our employees to go home to their families each night as healthy as they came to work. In financial terms, the cost of injuries and fatalities can be enough to significantly harm your business.

According to the National Safety Council, 6% of employees nationally are injured annually (the figure jumps to 10% in construction), with each injury costing a company on the order of $37,000 and each fatality costing approximately $1.4M. For a construction company with 150 employees, injury costs can easily exceed $500,000 a year. The good news, though, is that an OSHA study has concluded that effective safety management programs (including effective policies, good internal controls, good communication, and good training programs) can help companies reduce injuries by as much as 35%. Further, every $1 spent on injury prevention can provide up to $6 in savings.

OSHA also has found that a surprising 60% of construction accidents happen in an employee's first year of employment. This seems to offer a clear opportunity for improving safety by improving safety training. eFrontPro is an ideal platform for safety training. Key features include:

• The ability to train employees remotely in short sessions rather than requiring long face-to-face sessions
• The ability to easily create custom content, such as a site overview depicting the unique hazards of a specific job site
• The ability to monitor who has taken which training. This can help with identifying workers who are qualified for specific jobs, with identifying who needs which training, and with providing records for audits.
• The ability to automate the assignment of annual training so that employees stay current.

If you would like to learn more about how to use eFrontPro for safety training, please email us at info@dhxsoftware.com

For more on the National Safety Council study, click here.