There are a lot of companies on the internet offering online safety training. What makes SafetySkills™ so different?

SafetySkills™ is different because it is based on a fundamental belief that irrelevant, overly generic training is not only inefficient, but can be counterproductive to the very goal of the training in the first place. SafetySkills™ is designed to allow organizations of all sizes to deploy an enterprise online safety training platform that provides meaningful, effective training targeted at the organizations specific EHS and HR compliance aspects.

SafetySkills™ is different because our online safety training content is unrivaled in its production value. SafetySkills™ online safety training content contains dynamic, engaging Flash™-based animations, high-definition video and studio-produced audio narrations. Our standard design complexity includes at least one interaction for every three frames.

SafetySkills™ is different because of its competency-based design because it provides standards conformance and analytics to management with the resolution necessary to support sound EHS and HR compliance decision-making.

SafetySkills™ is different because we are first and foremost an environmental, health and safety compliance training company (and have been for over 15 years) with substantial experience in designing, developing and delivering environmental, health and safety training conventionally (in the classroom). We leverage that unique experience in our online training solutions.

What do you mean by competency-based online safety training?

We believe that training is not the ultimate goal, but a means to an end. The real objective is that your employee's have the knowledge, skill and ability (or "competency") to ensure your organization's EHS performance.

The emergence of performance based standards (e.g., NFPA 472) has resulted in a new approach to personnel training for critical activities. While most online safety training is developed to achieve "terminal and enabling learning objectives," every SafetySkills™ learning element requires the learner to "demonstrate the ability to ..." With SafetySkills™ managers are assured that learners not only received relevant training, but actually demonstrated a particular competency at a point in time.

Process based standards (e.g, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18000) require organizations to maintain mechanisms that ensure that employees associated with critical processes (linked to significant impacts) have the required competencies. Through this unique competency-based approach, SafetySkills™ Enterprise provides such a mechanism by allowing organizations to "map" individual learning elements to critical processes.

Can our online safety training platform be customized to reflect our corporate brand?

Yes! All SafetySkills™ Enterprise solutions include (no additional fee) custom interfaces in both your learning management system and in the training itself. Your corporate logos, your corporate colors, your corporate style.

Can SafetySkills™ online safety training be customized to target our specific workplace hazards and compliance issues?

Yes. SafetySkills™ is about customization! We built SafetySkills™ in order to allow for the deployment of highly targeted and need specific online safety training programs. All SafetySkills™ learning content is developed in small components we call Active Learning Elements™. Each learning element ranging from 2 to 5 minutes in duration targets a specific competency. When we configure a "course," for an individual learning group, we are able to rapidly aggregate a series of learning elements together to address that specific set of competencies.

For those identified competency requirements for which we have no existing relevant learning elements, our experienced development teams create one. The result is a highly customized online safety training solution at off-the-shelf costs.

Can I do my own customization?

Yes, you can! Today, most of the premier online safety training providers offer some user customization capability. Most of these however are rarely more than a simple content management system that allows only rudimentary edits. As always, we take it one step better. Through a unique partnership with Trivantis Corporation, the maker's of the industry leading authoring tool Lectora™, our customers can not only customize SafetySkills™ learning content, but create and deploy their own e-learning courses from scratch. Contact an account representative for more information.

The training sure looks great. But how do I know it's accurate and credible? Who writes SafetySkills™?

We do! Many leading online safety training providers will resell courses developed by other companies, or sub-contract the subject matter expertise. All SafetySkills™ online safety training courses are developed by our in-house staff of EHS professionals. We have been providing EHS compliance training services since 1993. We have successfully deployed over 450 conventional platform-based, as well as web-based, EHS training solutions, in sixteen countries and in seven languages with our development team. Our development staff includes board-certified professionals, most with advanced degrees in their fields who are actively engaged in supporting conventional training programs. Our instructors hold certifications with the EPA External Provider Program, OSHA's Outreach Program, International Fire Service Accreditation Congress, Institute for Hazardous Materials Management, National Environmental, Safety and Health Training Association and the Registry for Environmental Professionals.

I'd sure like to take advantage of the substantial benefits of an online safety training solution. But what if a substantial number of our employees are not "computer-savvy" and do not have routine access to the internet.

Actually, you may be surprised. Recent studies indicate the prevalence of broadband approaching 85% and increasing rapidly. Your employees are using the internet in all facets of their lives from entertainment to banking. In any case, SafetySkills™ was designed to be simple enough to be used by those with no computer skills, as well as dynamic and engaging enough to reach even the most avid computer gamer.

You can also deliver SafetySkills™ conventionally. For those offline, we offer Instructor Packs for many of our SafetySkills™ titles. These Instructor Packs include a PowerPoint™ presentation complete with instructor notes and course examinations in MS Word™. They are developed to mirror what is delivered online to ensure consistency and standardization in your EHS training program. If you'd like we can even provide a certified instructor. Contact an account representative for more information.

What if, after we deploy our online safety training program pertinent regulations or referenced industry standards change, is my training then obsolete?

No, all SafetySkills™ Enterprise subscriptions are equipped with LiveUpdate. With LiveUpdate, you can rest assured that your training is always current. If a referenced regulation or standard changes, you are promptly notified and your deployed training updated with no effort required on your part.

What is the difference between SafetySkills™ Direct and SafetySkills™ Enterprise?

SafetySkills™ Direct is our on-demand, pay as you go, solution for deploying our effective, competency-based EHS training. SafetySkills™ Direct is targeted primarily for organizations with up to 100 employees.Your employees can take their assigned training from anywhere, at anytime. Select, assign, track and manage your training assignments with your customized learning management system. No long term commitment, no minimum purchases. You can get started with just $19.95.

SafetySkills™ Enterprise is our corporate EHS e-learning solution for organizations with over 100 employees. The service includes our full-feature learning management system complete with fully customized administrative and learner interfaces. Active Learning Elements™ are aggregated to provide targeted and need specific training.