Learn how organizations in the construction industry can use an LMS to streamline onboarding processes, improve employee retention, and minimize risk.
Onboarding matters for every organization, but when you work in a high-turnover industry like construction, it’s crucial. After all, you need to know that you have a sustainable workforce capable of delivering your projects.
A learning management system like Bridge can become your greatest ally in minimizing risk and setting clear expectations during onboarding, leading to lower turnover.
Why High Turnover Is a Persistent Issue in the Construction Industry
If you’re always busy hiring and onboarding construction workers, it’s more than likely that you're not alone. What’s more, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs Report, 67% of infrastructure professionals (encompassing construction, engineering, and waste management industries) predict that talent retention rates will decline between 2025 and 2030.
High employee turnover and skills gaps can expose construction companies to project delays, spiraling budgets, and increased on-site accidents and injuries. In fact, 75% of firms surveyed by the Associated General Contractors of America cite labor and skills shortages as the primary threat to workforce safety.
So, what's the solution? Further World Economic Forum data indicates that 73% of construction companies are doubling down on reskilling employees to improve talent availability and skills shortages.
Your organization's onboarding experience lays the foundation for new hires and is key to retaining talent. With a strategic approach to training and a learning platform to automate the experience, you get your people up to speed, share business-critical information to minimize risk, and create an environment that makes them want to stay.
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How Bridge LMS Streamlines Onboarding for Seasonal and New Hires
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1) Keeping Employees Compliant With Industry-Standard Regulations
An effective onboarding program is about more than just sharing information. You need to be sure that your new hires have all they need to do their job with confidence and clarity. Bridge LMS enables you to tailor learning programs and pathways to target learners with relevant content based on department, location, or job title.
Bridge comes pre-bundled with a library of content from recognized providers, helping fill content gaps with off-the-shelf courses. You can use this content alongside your own courses and content from third-party providers to design experiences that engage your learners while keeping them up-to-date with the latest information and empowering them in their roles.
Making health and safety a priority among your workforce has measurable benefits. In a report published by OHSA, figures estimate that work-related injuries and illnesses resulted in more than 18 million days of lost work and 22 million days of transferred work in 2023—that’s before you factor in costs for lawyers, compensation packages, and punitive fines.
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2) Reaching Your Dispersed Workforce With a Dedicated Mobile App
According to a report published by SHRM, 75% of HR professionals see onboarding deskless workers as more challenging than office-based employees. They name the top barriers as limited access to computers, irregular schedules, and a lack of face-to-face communication.
Overcoming these barriers is about understanding your workers and investing in mobile-friendly learning. 61% of HR pros say that deskless workers use mobile devices to learn, and 54% agree that they access information both during and outside of working hours.
Since your learners aren't tied to a desk or a classroom, their learning experience should meet them where they are. An LMS with a dedicated mobile app like Bridge makes training manageable and enjoyable for employees. This way, new hires are more likely to breeze through your onboarding training–even when they're on the go or without access to Wi-Fi.
Bridge's user interface is designed to be quick to learn, easy to use, and to support flexible learning styles. Within the app, people can complete courses in small, snack-sized bites, access live training, and search the content library to find the necessary information. As a result, you create a learning environment that engages people, motivates them to complete training, and encourages ongoing development and upskilling.
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3) Fostering Communication and Feedback
Ensure that you communicate clear expectations to your new workers and that they know who to turn to with questions or concerns. With Bridge, it's easy to bake communication into learning journeys. And since managers play a crucial role in driving engagement and development, you can equip them with the insights to oversee and support onboarding within their team.
During onboarding journeys, you can facilitate ongoing communication by scheduling regular manager-employee check-ins and prompting employees to request feedback from peers and their direct manager. They can also conduct check-ins via the mobile app, using the agenda to record and share discussion points.
4) Personalizing the Learning Experience
In diverse work environments where a portion of your people might speak different languages, it's crucial that every member of your workforce understands your processes and policies. By breaking down language barriers, you can be sure that everyone has access to business-critical information.
It’s not just about reinforcing the health and safety of your workforce. Making learners feel like they belong matters, and offering dedicated onboarding training and documentation in their native language can help to build this sense of belonging. By providing materials in multiple languages, you're also more likely to boost morale and teamwork among your crew.
A learning platform can assist you in translating your assets. For instance, Bridge supports over 30 languages within the LMS, video authoring tool, and content authoring tools. When you use Bridge Advanced Authoring, you can translate entire courses or single assets into multiple languages with a single click and localize translations, including relevant examples and touchpoints for specific cultures and contexts.
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5) Tracking Training and Development With Learning Analytics
An LMS takes the guesswork out of keeping your people safe. Using Bridge's in-depth learning analytics, you can surface course completion, assessment rates, and certifications, ensuring people have completed training. Plus, with the ability to automatically enroll new employees in training and schedule time-sensitive alerts and reminders for upcoming deadlines, you let the platform do the heavy lifting with the confidence your organization and its people are protected.
But it's not just about checking that employees complete mandatory training. You'll also want to ensure your new hires know how to apply this knowledge on-site. Connecting your learning, performance, and skills development data within the platform helps you translate how training leads to measurable improvements.
Furthermore, access to your learning and performance data can help you see how onboarding training impacts retention and other business-critical metrics. With this insight, you can refine L&D strategies to maximize impact. When organizations proactively measure and refine their learning and upskilling, they’re more likely to see higher levels of employee retention.
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Using Automation to Ensure Consistency During Onboarding
The right HR and L&D tools streamline your onboarding processes, reducing the manual work required by automating content delivery and reporting. With Bridge Journeys, you can customize and deploy learning pathways, enroll individuals or entire groups, and space out training, making it available immediately or scheduling it for the future.
Breaking the onboarding journey into small steps of time-synced content reduces the administrative effort for HR and L&D teams. This avoids overwhelming new hires, creating a smooth and fuss-free experience.
By blending learning, performance, upskilling, and development, you can incorporate the following steps into your L&D pathways:
- Single courses
- Multi-step programs
- Live training events
- Evidence-based checkpoints
- Perform actions (1:1 meetings and skills feedback requests)
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Real-World Results: How Construction Customers Use Bridge to Improve Processes
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1) Automating Employee Training and Development Programs
One of Bridge’s most powerful features is its versatility. The ability to automate learning journeys means you can go beyond basic training and craft personalized learning and development pathways.
In addition to making onboarding an easier and more engaging experience, Journeys can be used for employee development and upskilling, encouraging ongoing skills development.
2) Reducing Time-to-Productivity
You want the newest members of your workforce up to speed with your regulatory requirements as quickly as possible. With an intuitive and easy-to-navigate learning environment, you make it easy for people to complete required training quickly and without issues.
You don't need extensive training or expertise to use the LMS–learners will immediately know what's required of them when they log into the platform or mobile app.
3) Measuring the Impact of L&D
By pairing powerful performance management features with configurable learning reports, Bridge allows you to measure the business impact of your training programs and translate these results into measurable business impact.
You can also use this insight to optimize your learning programs, ensuring people have the skills they need to complete their jobs and motivating them with targeted talent development opportunities.
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4) Making Training a Priority
A single learning platform integrated with your tech stack increases learning access across a dispersed workforce. As a result, you standardize your reporting and uncover deeper insight.
In addition, you enable people managers to oversee training and development, allowing them to prioritize communication and drive performance by tracking progress, conducting check-ins, and assigning tasks to direct reports.
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5) Improving On-Site Safety
It's no secret that people learn better with access to modern, engaging eLearning content. And when it comes to safety and compliance training, you need to be sure people are learning and retaining their potentially life-saving knowledge.
By using Bridge to implement modern safety training for its clients, SafetyNow saw the following improvements:
- One SafetyNow client saw a $1 million decrease in insurance premiums due to a 57% reduction in accidents and incidents
- Compared with those who didn’t receive training through Bridge, learner retention of core safety training was five times greater after two weeks
- The same group of learners completed courses in half the usual time and experienced a marked improvement in engagement
- Another client saw a 7% reduction in insurance premiums and a 71% reduction in accidents and incidents
Onboard Construction Workers With Ease Using Bridge’s Training Software
Bridge's platform is a single destination for all things learning and development, equipped with all you need to address safety requirements and build skills.
A dedicated mobile app and advanced authoring tool give you the flexibility and reach to engage your workforce in any location, language, or device with responsive eLearning and one-click translation.
Pairing these capabilities with automated learning pathways, in-depth reporting and analytics, and personalized content via your learning library, you get a fast and effective solution for the entire learner experience.
