16 August 2005
Figures Prove Benefits of Health and Safety Training
It’s official – quality training can dramatically improve a company’s health and safety performance and reduce workplace injuries. Figures just released by ALSTOM Power Turbo-Systems - Power Plant Construction Business provide demonstrable proof that a bespoke corporate health and safety training programme, designed and delivered by leading training providers RRC, has significantly contributed to the reduction in the number of lost time injuries suffered by ALSTOM employees and its contractors.
Data which shows the combined Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) for the employees and contractors of ALSTOM Power Turbo-Systems Power Plant Construction Business over two years shows that in the last twelve months the number of lost time injuries has fallen by almost half, from over seventy in the previous period to under forty since the RRC/ALSTOM EHS Elevator Training programme was launched in March 2004. The LTIFR has also dropped from 3.1 to 1.75 lost time injuries/1,000,000 hours worked. This makes the LTIFR now well below the HSE’s National UK All Construction rate and the LTI rate of the Engineering Construction Industry Association.
To date, ALSTOM has trained over 60% of its staff to the appropriate level on the RRC/ALSTOM EHS Elevator Training programme, developed by RRC to provide a health and safety e-learning programme tailored specifically to the needs of ALSTOM’s staff in 7 different countries. Based on its progressive RRC Key2Safety three stage programme, which is divided up into Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced levels, the course provides training from induction to Certificate level. It is designed on an international framework, making reference to International standards rather than country-specific legislation and can be delivered anywhere in the world to field service personnel via the Internet.
‘There is no question that RRC’s training has contributed significantly to the improvement in our health and safety performance,’ says Glynn Carty, Head of Environmental, Health and Safety, Plant Business at ALSTOM Power-Turbo Systems, who has worked with RRC since the training programme was first piloted in 2003. ‘Having a corporate programme designed specifically to address our needs has made all the difference. Working within the Global Power Plant Construction business, delivering a course based upon the legislation of one particular country would have been of limited benefit to us. We needed a course that would be based upon international best practice and cover the more general environmental, health and safety (EHS) requirements. It was also necessary that it could be delivered at numerous locations at minimum cost.’
RRC MD Gary Fallaize, concludes:
‘There is no question that well-designed health and safety training can deliver results and the LTIFR figures are the perfect illustration of the benefits of a bespoke programme designed to meet a particular organisation’s specific needs. We are delighted that the RRC/ALSTOM EHS Elevator Training programme has been so successful for ALSTOM.’
The RRC Key2Safety programme is available through face-to-face, distance learning and e-learning and blended solutions are also available through RRC’s growing number of International partners.
For more information contact RRC on 44 (0) 20 8944 3100,
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