A successful Training Management program includes the following best practices: Why care about employee training? A company in Omaha, Nebraska was fined over $15K for serious violations identified by OSHA including; lack of proper training and inadequate supervision of powered industrial-truck-operators-in-training and lack of training for energy control procedures. A new report by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reveals that 5,631 workers were injured or killed in work-related accidents in 2008. Most were injured after being sent out to work in manufacturing jobs, which accounted for two-thirds of the accidents. Most workers were injured within three months of starting work – i.e., limited experience was a factor in most injuries. Ensuring that appropriate employee training is assigned and is completed is important to preventing workplace accidents and maintaining compliance! • Assigning appropriate training based on location, job title, operation, or even by task • Tracking training completion and notifying employees and supervisors of progress • Recording training completion and being able to quickly access completion records • Providing or establishing a connection with HR systems & Learning Management Systems to ensure new employees are trained when they join the company and materials are delivered The Gensuite Training Tracker application was developed in 1998 and to precisely meet these process needs and is being used by ~2000 sites world-wide. On average, annual site productivity savings has been estimated at $27.5 K per site!* *Productivity savings based on a site with 100 employees and an estimated 812 hours of managing approvals and workflow for changes at a rate of $45/hr. More Information? Just check out Gensuite Help Me!… • Click Help Me! from Gensuite Home for more information on Training Training Tracker Functionality Build a site-specific EHS training matrix based on site operations and applicable EHS regulations/best practices Maintain the active site employee list through automatic updates from HR management systems Update training needs using automatic emails on new/ moved/ terminated site employees Generate pending training lists and training plans/rosters by course/student/department/job or other custom criteria Quickly record employee training completion using online options, bar-coding, Pocket PC, e-learning & batch uploads Identify employees qualified to perform specific tasks based on training completion records Email employees and supervisors as-needed or automatically each month regarding pending training Automatically report EHS Regulatory Training Completion % metrics based on company requirements Customize…facilitate e-learning using integration with Learning Management Systems or the use of Training Tracker’s built in LMS module; and site-specific training options using e-Tests Control employee-specific training requirement dates through custom activation & effective dates Monitor training completion using monthly status email Tracker or any other Gensuite app! • Ready to get started? Check the Quick Start Guide. • Click on the Help Me link • Click on the link for the New User Guide • Keyword search Answer Wizard for common questions • Click Need Training for upcoming training!