TrainingToday product update: Launch of new EHS content and LMS functionality

BLR’s learning and development and content teams have released new training content and learning management system (LMS) functionality over the past several months. Read on for the latest product and content updates. If you’re not a current TrainingToday subscriber and are interested in learning more about our LMS or course offerings, get in touch!

New content releases

Transportation safety courses

With more than 110,000 injuries and 4,500 fatalities involving commercial motor vehicle (CMV) accidents each year, transportation safety continues to be an important training focus for organizations. We’ve added new courses to our library to help employees add additional safe practices to their driving routines.

• Final-Mile Delivery Safety. This course discusses the hazards associated with final-mile delivery and how drivers can keep themselves safe.
• Safe Driving: Backing Up. This session covers the causes of backing accidents and the safe driving practices that can help prevent such accidents.
• Safe Driving: Preventing Rear-End Collisions. This session discusses the primary causes of rear-end vehicle collisions and details the safe driving practices that can prevent these incidents.

Additional construction safety courses in Spanish

We’ve added 10 new courses on construction safety in Spanish to help deliver training in the most impactful form for your employees.

• Lockout/Tagout: Affected Employees (Spanish). This session covers the safety procedure known as “lockout/tagout” and related hazardous energy control measures designed to protect you from injuries due to unexpected start-up of machinery or equipment or the release of stored hazardous energy during servicing and maintenance operations after the equipment has been turned off.
• Forklifts and Pedestrian Safety (Spanish). This course provides information for workers and others who walk in areas where forklifts operate about the hazards of forklifts and safe practices to prevent contact incidents and injuries.
• Arc Flash Safety: Unqualified Person (Spanish). This course provides information about arc flash and shock hazards and safe work practices for “unqualified” persons who work around but not directly on or near exposed, energized electrical equipment or parts.
• Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish). This course provides information about how employees can prepare for a disaster in the workplace and how to react if one should happen.
• Good Housekeeping (Spanish). The main objective of this session is to emphasize the importance of good housekeeping and explain what it really involves.
• Ladder Safety (Spanish). Ladder accidents, injuries, and even fatalities are one of the most common forms of accidents that happen on the job. But there is a lot you can do to avoid becoming one of those accident statistics—and it starts with using the information you will be provided during this training session.
• Personal Protective Equipment: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish). After this training session, you will understand how a personal protective equipment (PPE) hazard assessment is conducted, which involves evaluating the workplace and job functions for any potential hazards that can be controlled through the use of PPE; be able to select the proper PPE to protect against the hazards found during the hazard assessment; and be able to show employees how to properly wear and care for their PPE.
• Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction: Preventing Exposure (Spanish). This presentation will help prepare workers at construction sites to recognize potential exposures to hazardous silica dust and take measures to prevent exposure.
• Respiratory Protection (Spanish). Millions of workers wear respirators in workplaces across a wide variety of industries to protect against airborne contaminants and poor oxygen environments. But just wearing a respirator is not enough. Respirator users must know how to properly fit, use, inspect, and maintain their respirators to fully protect against respiratory hazards.
• Scissor Lifts: Operator Safety (Spanish). This presentation will train scissor lift operators to appreciate the hazards associated with scissor lifts; minimize those hazards; and safely operate, handle materials on, and inspect and maintain scissor lifts.

Features and functionality updates

My training on learner’s dashboard

On the learner’s dashboard, we’ve updated the widget that displays the learner’s assigned training. The widget title is now My Training. It displays the most recent training additions and updates and provides access to a new page that displays all assigned training and provides filtering options.

We updated the widget to improve learners’ experience and make it easier for learners to navigate to their assigned training.

How it looks now

Now, the 12 most recent courses in each category are displayed in the My Training widget on the learner’s dashboard. The learner can select “See All Assigned Courses and Learning Paths” to view all assigned training, no matter the status on this newly created page with additional filter options.

Filter options include Assignment Type, Content Type, Completion Status, Overdue, and Compliance Status.

How it looked before

Before, all assigned trainings were displayed in a widget on learners’ dashboards and could be sorted by various filter options. As learners scrolled down, they could choose to load more tiles in a category and keep scrolling, repeating until all tiles were displayed.

The new content is available in the following libraries:

All-Access: EH&S

• Final-Mile Delivery Safety
• Safe Driving: Backing Up
• Safe Driving: Preventing Rear-End Collisions
• Lockout/Tagout: Affected Employees (Spanish)
• Forklifts and Pedestrian Safety (Spanish)
• Arc Flash Safety: Unqualified Person (Spanish)
• Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
• Good Housekeeping (Spanish)
• Ladder Safety (Spanish)
• Personal Protective Equipment: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
• Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction: Preventing Exposure (Spanish)
• Respiratory Protection (Spanish)
• Scissor Lifts: Operator Safety (Spanish)

All-Access: Spanish

• Lockout/Tagout: Affected Employees (Spanish)
• Forklifts and Pedestrian Safety (Spanish)
• Arc Flash Safety: Unqualified Person (Spanish)
• Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
• Good Housekeeping (Spanish)
• Ladder Safety (Spanish)
• Personal Protective Equipment: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
• Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction: Preventing Exposure (Spanish)
• Respiratory Protection (Spanish)
• Scissor Lifts: Operator Safety (Spanish)

Transportation Safety

• Final-Mile Delivery Safety
• Safe Driving: Backing Up
• Safe Driving: Preventing Rear-End Collisions

Workplace Safety

• Lockout/Tagout: Affected Employees (Spanish)
• Forklifts and Pedestrian Safety (Spanish)
• Arc Flash Safety: Unqualified Person (Spanish)
• Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
• Good Housekeeping (Spanish)
• Ladder Safety (Spanish)
• Personal Protective Equipment: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
• Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction: Preventing Exposure (Spanish)
• Respiratory Protection (Spanish)
• Scissor Lifts: Operator Safety (Spanish)

Workplace Safety CA

• Lockout/Tagout: Affected Employees (Spanish)
• Forklifts and Pedestrian Safety (Spanish)
• Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
• Good Housekeeping (Spanish)
• Ladder Safety (Spanish)
• Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction: Preventing Exposure (Spanish)
• Respiratory Protection (Spanish)

Construction Safety

• Arc Flash Safety: Unqualified Person (Spanish)
• Ladder Safety (Spanish)
• Scissor Lifts: Operator Safety (Spanish)

Environmental Compliance

• Personal Protective Equipment: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)

All-Access: Health Care

• Respiratory Protection (Spanish)

HAZWOPER

• Respiratory Protection (Spanish)

Laboratory Safety

• Respiratory Protection (Spanish)

Safety for Healthcare Workers

• Respiratory Protection (Spanish)

All-Access: Human Resources

• Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)

HR Employment

• Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)

Pandemic Preparedness

• Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)