NASHUA, N.H., July 8, 2014 – Skillsoft, the international learning solutions provider, has launched a range of brand new health and safety courses for UK businesses. The courses cover a broad range of topics designed to help prevent accidents and ensure employees remain compliant with the law.
Ensuring occupational health and safety (OHS) is not only a legal requirement, but is also good for business. OHS compliance is essential not only for protecting the health and well-being of your workforce, but also promotes employee engagement, leading to increased productivity and improved standards of quality and customer service.
Health and safety executive statistics state that each year, 27 million days are lost to work-related ill health or injury, costing the British economy an estimated $23 billion, 20 percent of which was borne directly by employers. Nearly half of all newly-reported cases of work-related illness or injury related to musculoskeletal disorders, with slips, trips and falls and poor ergonomics being the most common causes.
Skillsoft enables businesses to combat these common issues with new compliance courses in slips, trips and falls, first aid awareness and ergonomics in the Workplace. With 13,000 work-related deaths a year, many relating to illnesses caused by inadequate respiratory protection or a lack of awareness of defensive driving skills, the new set of health and safety courses also include courses in defensive driving fundamentals and respiratory protection.
“We have worked hard to produce a dynamic range of elearning courses in order to help businesses reduce accidents at work and maintain the highest possible business productivity,” said Mike Newton, Skillsoft’s UK Director of Compliance. “Our learning solutions also enable clients to offer their staff access to compliance courses through tablet devices as well as PCs, which addresses the needs of mobile work forces and makes health and safety courses more accessible.”
About Skillsoft
Skillsoft is a pioneer in the field of learning with a long history of innovation. Skillsoft provides cloud based learning solutions for its customers worldwide, ranging from global enterprises, government, and education to mid-sized and small businesses. Skillsoft’s customer support teams draw on a wealth of in-house experience and a comprehensive learning e-library to develop off-the-shelf and custom learning programs tailored to cost-effectively meet customer needs. Skillsoft’s courses, books and videos have been developed by industry leading learning experts to ensure that they maximize business skills, performance, and talent development.
