Keeping your people safe wherever they are is one of your top priorities as an HR or safety professional. However, the skills crisis across the manufacturing industry can make this incredibly challenging. How do you reduce costly downtime and keep your workforce safe from injury when it feels like you never have enough skilled labor where and when you need it? Bridge can help. It’s a powerful, all-in-one learning management system (LMS) that empowers you to offer more effective safety training while closing skills gaps fast, streamlining new employee onboarding, monitoring development, and keeping your workforce engaged.
Read on to discover three key ways Bridge LMS can help you keep your teams safe while driving skills development across your organization.
1) Getting the Basics Right: Offer Effective Safety Training for Your Manufacturing Crew With Bridge
Stalled productivity, damage to machinery, poor employee morale, and reputational damage—these are just some of the costly effects of a workplace accident on the shop floor or a manufacturing site.
An unskilled workforce significantly increases the likelihood of an accident, making the current landscape extra challenging for manufacturing organizations across the globe. A shocking 97.5% of manufacturers surveyed across the UK say that hiring and retaining skilled labor poses a significant challenge to their business. The picture looks equally bleak in the U.S. The net need for new employees in manufacturing may be around 3.8 million between 2024 and 2033, but about 1.9 million vacancies could remain unfilled if companies can’t address the skills and applicant gap.
To stay safe amid the skills and labor crisis, you need a robust safety strategy that’s easy to implement and maintain across your workforce. With Bridge LMS, safety training couldn't be easier. Harness the power of:
Industry-Compliant Safety Courses
Compliance training is crucial to minimizing safety incidents. Cut the risk of accidents and stay ahead of ever-evolving regulations with courses that comply with OSHA, LOTO, and ISO.
Speedy Onboarding
Improve onboarding by equipping new employees with essential safety knowledge or crucial information on specific projects in double time.
Easy and Intuitive Mobile Learning
Let your workforce take their training on the go to keep them safe, engaged, and learning—wherever they are.
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2) Overcoming Skills Gaps Across Your Workforce in Record Time
Skill gaps in the manufacturing field can have significant consequences. Less skilled workers may struggle to be as productive as their more experienced peers. If management is also under pressure, workers may even find themselves in the challenging position of being stretched beyond their capabilities when it comes to operating complicated machinery. This can exacerbate existing challenges and lead to unplanned downtime. Worst of all, it makes the manufacturing site less safe and can lead to serious workplace accidents.
A powerful learning platform can make all the difference. When you take advantage of Bridge’s skills-boosting features, you'll confidently upskill less experienced workers faster than ever before, helping them stay safe and productive.
Segmented Learning Journeys Boost Skills—Fast!
With Bridge Journeys, your organization can deliver training in segments, making it easy for less skilled staff or new hires to get up to speed without feeling overwhelmed. Instead of throwing learning at the wall and seeing what sticks, Bridge gives you the ability to deliver strategic and sophisticated training journeys that produce results every step of the way.
Create simple, effective training that guides learners through structured development paths and ensures they learn exactly what they need to be successful.
Harness the Power of Community
Peer-to-peer learning can be a powerful tool for motivating employees to improve their knowledge and skills. Bridge's Skills Communities seamlessly facilitate mentorship between colleagues. Employees simply search for a desired skill on an intuitive interface, and a colleague who can help them close that specific skills gap is automatically recommended.
This feature is particularly useful for manufacturing organizations that struggle with knowledge transfer between experienced and less experienced workers. Bridge gives you much-needed visibility over the skills landscape within your organization and instantly offers employees the ability to overcome training gaps.
What Gets Measured Gets Managed
You want to keep your manufacturing workforce focused and engaged, as well as prove training ROI. Bridge offers robust analytical tools that help you monitor progress to provide the right kind of support at the right time.
You can easily track course completion, learner engagement, and performance to identify knowledge gaps and understand where employees need support. This is targeted skills development that ensures workers rapidly build the specific skills they need to succeed on projects at the top of your organization's list.
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3) Ensure Every Employee in Your Organization Stays Engaged
You won't be able to close skill caps and boost safety on your sites if employees aren’t interested in training or if they have poor relationships with management. Bridge can strengthen employee engagement, not just in learning and development but also by fostering meaningful and productive relationships between managers and their reports.
You can take advantage of an AI-powered skills database with over 30,000 skills. These skills are automatically mapped to jobs and roles within your organization and tagged with relevant learning content. This helps managers understand the specific skills employees in certain roles may require and promote targeted development.
Bridge makes capturing feedback a breeze too. Reports can easily request skills feedback from peers or leaders, helping them and their managers understand where they can make improvements. Employees and their managers can link learning content to goals with the click of a button, meaning training is always targeted and strategic.
Managers can also conduct performance conversations within the platform. This provides an excellent structure to:
- Reinforce positive behaviors
- Point out areas for improvement
- Lay out personalized development plans
Best of all, Bridge’s performance features seamlessly integrate with your HRIS— that's one less digital transformation headache for you or your IT team to worry about!
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Ready to See What Bridge Can Do for Your Manufacturing Organization?
Manufacturers around the world trust Bridge LMS to increase safety across their organizations while closing skills gaps and boosting engagement. Effective safety training on an intuitive, easy-to-use learning platform is yours for the taking too!
Try a walkthrough to get a better understanding of Bridge’s capabilities, or get in touch with us today, and we can set you up with a custom demo.
