Astel Risk & Safety Consulting provides cost saving solutions for corporate training

Astel Risk & Safety Consulting Limited in conjunction with a US-based organization, Comprehensive Loss Management Inc. has introduced an online training management system known as Resourcenow to simplify employee training and cut organization’s training cost by about fifty percent.

The program comes with pre-loaded safety courses and enhances flexibility by allowing organisations create their own courses and any other contents they choose.

Chukwuka Igbokwe, chief executive officer of the company said the aim of the solution is to reduce the loss of productive hours as a result of assembling employees in classroom for hours or days presenting materials that can be deployed online.

“This is a training management solution, not just an online product. Before we deploy the solutions, we carry out an assessment of an organization’s training programmes to know what can be moved online and what can be deployed face-to-face.”
Igbokwe further said that the decision to launch an online learning management system came from a desire to simplify the process make corporate learning cost effective.
Resourcenow makes learning easy and fast with pre-loaded courses delivered through video and text creating an effective learning experience for employees.
A key feature of the online solution, is that it comes with the flexibility of organisations creating their own courses and other contents.
A fully automated suite, it assigns and tracks training completion and includes a mobile app for easy access for employees.
It has over 3000 documents and 94 computer based programs that can be modified to the companys’ needs as well as end of course evaluation among others.
“It takes less than half the time of classroom instruction and cost far less than half of classroom training,” said Igbokwe.
Companies installing learning programmes for their employees have to combat with challenges especially inadequate funding which makes human capital development one of the first casualties of budget cuts.
Igbokwe says his solution can simplify personnel training process, reduce course fee per head and at the same time increase the level of employees’ awareness of safety practices and operational procedures in the workplace.
E-learning plays catch up in Africa, according to Igbokwe not because the technology is not available, but due to inadequate knowledge of available technologies and a dated perception that education only happens in a physical classroom.
However the rate at which learning programmes, both academic and professional, are being deployed online signals that online education is the next frontier in learning.
According to WCET Distance Education Enrollment 2016, from 2002 to 2014, the number of students enrolling in “at least one distance education course” increased from 1.6 to 5.8 million students.

 

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