Effectively managing employee compliance training
Compliance training is an essential part of any business’s operations, as it ensures you are undertaking your legal responsibilities to adhere to any rules and regulations your business must comply with. Employee compliance training is an umbrella term, that covers many business functions including health and safety, HR, data security and many more that may be pertinent to a specific sector or business. These include but are not limited to:
- Health and safety including fire safety, DSE, food safety and COSHH if applicable
- GDPR and data security
- HR processes
- Confidentiality
- Conflicts of interest
- Code of conduct
A good compliance training programme helps businesses to manage all aspects of compliance without missing something vital. To set up an appropriate compliance training portfolio, you’ll need to list all of the regulations that you must comply with (both mandatory and optional, such as ISO’s) to run your business and then seek out or create the necessary training.
Beyond the mandatory legal requirements, an effective employee compliance training can have many benefits, including:
- Improved workplace safety
- Increased productivity
- Less working days lost due to injury, mental health issues, etc.
- Improved employee retention
- Protecting your business’ reputation
- Reducing the risk of legal action
- Improved eligibility for standards and accreditations (which can improve your businesses competitiveness)
Compliance training also shows your employees that you are taking their safety seriously and are a reputable business that should be taken seriously.
How can you manage your training records?
Depending on the size of your business and the complexity of your training strategy, the solution to manage your employees will vary, whilst paper-based records may be sufficient for some, many businesses would benefit from a purpose build training management system.
AssessNET’s training module has been created with simplicity in mind allowing you to add as many employees, bespoke courses and training providers as needed, with automatic reminders for expired courses, allowing you to ascertain a real-time overview of your entire business’s compliance levels. For more information, book a demonstration.
