Tackling the Challenges of Managing the Competence and Compliance of a Dispersed and Mobile Workforce

With a workforce spread across multiple regions, including remote or hazardous locations, it becomes difficult to ensure that all employees' training compliance levels are in accordance with your internal or external regulations. In our fast-paced world, it is even more important than ever to be agile not only to manage but to avoid accidents. Preventing and resolving possible training gaps in a complex environment can become overly tedious and susceptible to human error, resulting in accidents and safety violations. Therefore, managers in high-risk industries need tools that help them stay connected across regions and locations to be able to manage the compliance and competence of their workforce. 

Managing the workforce is evolving into a more complex problem in safety-critical industries like energy, maritime, and manufacturing, where teams often operate across various locations, including offshore platforms, remote worksites, or in high-risk areas. From ensuring consistently that safety and compliance training requirements are met, to tracking certifications and competency while also minimizing cost and administrative workload, competence and compliance management presents decision makes with a specific challenge. 

Managing people requires a combination of technological solutions for training, tracking, and communication, alongside human-centric strategies like mental health monitoring and cross-cultural understanding. Trends such as aging workforce, regionalization and enhanced data proliferation are shaping the landscape of safety critical industries, laying the foundation for innovative technologies to provide ample solutions to these complex challenges. The rapid rise of digital technologies and the growing role of platform environments in workforce management will play a crucial role in ensuring that workers remain competent, safe, and compliant, no matter where they are located.

Compliance and Competence Management in Safety-Critical Industries 

Creating a compliance and competence management framework is overwhelming and time consuming, but an important element of keeping risks at bay and maintaining a culture of safety. Platform environments offer substantial benefits for managing processes digitally in safety-critical industries, particularly by enabling seamless oversight of training and compliance.  

Ensuring that everyone remains compliant with industry standards and reducing the likelihood of human error is pivotal for companies operating in high-risk environments. This kind of automation can help eliminate the need for manual record-keeping and reduces the risk of non-compliance due to oversight. Furthermore, it can provide real-time updates, enabling managers to access current training data instantly, regardless of where their employees are located, which is critical in industries with dispersed or mobile workforces.

Enhancing Operational Efficiency and Data Management 

Operational efficiency and data transparency are becoming standards, foreshadowing the need to have a system that effectively collects and stores data in a central system for easy access and reporting, providing a collective overview of all employees, both permanent and temporary, across multiple locations. By digitizing processes to improve compliance tracking across different geographical locations, digital tools give management ways to enhance data efficiency and quality while ensuring safety on-site.  

Digital platforms also offer powerful analytics tools, enabling companies to analyze employee performance, track competency gaps, and improve training programs based on actual data. This results in more efficient training processes and ensures that all workers are prepared to handle safety-critical tasks effectively. These capabilities improve both safety and operational efficiency, as they foster a proactive approach to workforce management, ensuring that issues are addressed before they escalate into larger problems.

Discover RelyOn’s modular system and advance your business with digital applications 

To combat the challenges our customers face, RelyOn has developed software application RIDER – an integrated modular system that stores and tracks workforce compliance, competence and training requirements, supporting customers to make improvements in operational efficiency, reductions in administration time, and ultimately to deliver cost savings. 

RIDER combines learning, compliance, and competence solutions in a scalable digital platform, offering full visibility to your employees' training compliance levels according to your internal or external regulations. 

• Learning Management Module: Our state-of-the-art learning management platform allows for the booking of training and the delivery of digital learning content within one integrated system. The system allows companies to easily book employees onto any blended or digital learning products within its portfolio. Employees can access all digital learning content from a single location, either via desktop or mobile app, ensuring convenience and flexibility.
  
  The system also enables tracking of employee performance across their digital learning activities, streamlining the learning management process. This not only supports employee training and compliance but also helps reduce the administrative workload associated with managing learning programs. 

• Training Compliance Module: The training compliance module centralizes all training data in one user-friendly, cloud-based location which allows for full visibility of compliance levels across the organization, ultimately reducing administrative workload and supports with the delivery of organizational compliance.
  
  The platform offers a customizable dashboard with reporting, tracking, and forecasting capabilities, allowing organizations to monitor compliance levels effectively. Users can book, track, and manage training while also uploading and storing certifications. The employee portal enables individuals to manage their own training requirements, enhancing autonomy and streamlining the overall training management process. 

• Competence Management Module: The competence management module enables the digital and real-time tracking of employees towards the competence requirements as set out in an organization's competence framework.
  
  The Assessor and Verifier portals offer visibility into status and outstanding actions, ensuring efficient oversight. Users can upload images, documents, and more into a secure evidence locker, providing a fully documented trail of evidence to support audits and bid submissions. The system tracks workforce competence, aiding in workforce planning, while the employee portal allows individuals to take ownership of their own competence progress and career development. 

Book your DEMO today 

Discover how RIDER can revolutionize your organization's training and compliance processes. With customizable dashboards, sophisticated tracking and forecasting capabilities, secure evidence lockers, and employee self-management tools, RIDER streamlines workforce competence and planning. From booking and managing training to supporting audits with a fully documented trail of evidence, this all-in-one platform empowers both managers and employees.  

Ready to see how RIDER can work for you? Book a demo today and experience firsthand how it can simplify administration and enhance compliance while giving your team control over their own development.