In office risk assessment training for the best way to comply

There are certain rules that every office has to comply with – even if they don’t feel they have the time. All staff, for example, must undergo risk assessment training to make sure that their work stations and working practices are not damaging them in any way. Many employers find this necessary evil an extraordinary inconvenience: mainly because they think they have to pack all their workers off to a training course, thereby losing their productivity for an entire day or more.
Actually, this isn’t the case. Most risk assessment type training can be conducted from the office, more or less according to the availability of the staff in question. Companies like Comply Wise deliver extremely robust risk assessment training software, which trains each staff member individually in his or her own time- completely, removing the need for sending staff on long training days when they would be better employed in the office.
In many cases, a risk assessment like a VDU risk assessment can be completed in around an hour: at the end of the day, say, or just after lunch. All online risk assessment courses can be saved at any time, too – so if an employee is in the middle of one, and has to attend a meeting or has some urgent work come in, then he or she simply hits “save” and returns to the questionnaire at a later date.
Modern risk assessment training modules are really very clever. For the most part, they use multiple choice question parameters to get trainees to deliver a really clear picture of the true state of their working environment. The questions, which are designed according to psychological ideas as well as referring to the actual physical environment of the worker, are able to construct a kind of virtual picture of an employee’s working conditions in a mainframe server hosted by the company delivering the training. The risk assessment training module, once completed, is analysed by that company’s own computers, which will flag any areas of concern for attention by the client. A report is delivered to the client with areas of attention clearly marked in it: and a length of time in which to comply.
Sounds good – but can a computer really carry out a successful risk assessment? In most cases, yes. The training software is pretty smart – it is able to identify almost all grey areas by analysing the responses trainees have given to the questions it has posed. The questions run by the risk assessment training software have been specifically architected to make grey areas obvious to the machine running the collation of the data: if answers do not match a cleverly defined set of criteria, they will be sent up for attention by a human operator, who will contact the client directly and attempt to sort out the discrepancy. If, after human contact is made, the answers are still unclear, a human operative will undertake that part of the risk assessment manually.
In all cases, even up to this worst case scenario of someone having to come in and do a bit of the risk assessment training in a manual fashion, most of the work involved is outsourced to computers at the host company. The managers and owners of the company doing the risk assessment, then, need only lose their staff for an hour or so each. Good news for all those who want to comply.

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