L&D intervention that builds a strong health and safety culture

Your L&D team is part of a medium-sized construction company that is seeking to grow and expand its current operations. It was set up five years ago and is establishing itself within the local, regional market in the North of England, but it is now reaching into the national UK market more strongly.

However, over the past couple of years, there have been a small number of serious health and safety incidents across three of the five main operational sites. Given that health and safety is paramount to the company and its reputation, you are very much aware that you need to implement an L&D intervention that builds a strong health and safety culture. There are five sites, each managed by an Operations Manager (OM), and approximately 300 employees spread evenly across the five sites.

The OMs have informed you that not only do they find the current e-learning provision (a 1-hour PowerPoint-based instruction through the intranet system followed by a multiple choice quiz) on safety inadequate, but they also find it difficult to monitor and share information about potential safety concerns with each other.

You, therefore, need to design an L&D intervention that overhauls the current e-learning provision and enables the operations managers to share information and insights with each other so that any potential safety concerns are identified and acted upon quickly.  Should you decide to outsource any training provision, then there is a budget available however, there is always pressure to keep costs down.