Compliance & Workplace Safety

Safety is still a major concern for workers, especially in the construction and manufacturing industries. According to the National Safety Council, a worker gets injured on the job every seven seconds. That adds up to 540 work injuries an hour. In 2020, there were 4,113 preventable injury-related deaths among workers, and the cost ran into...

With acts of violence increasing in society each day, workplaces cannot remain immune to them. Today it is common to witness incidents of verbal abuse, intimidations, and physical assaults in the workplace. Confirming this are some shocking statistics from the National Safety Council: Assault is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. workplace....

Online learning is helpful to every business sector, but it is particularly remarkable for the corporate world. This is because most companies today employ online learning solutions for employee training software.  According to a survey conducted by Bersin & Associates, 60% of 2,000 managers they interviewed prefer to use online training because they find it...

Compliance training is a serious matter and non-compliance has cost many companies dear. For example, in June 2020, the British investment banking and financial services company, Barclays PLC, was imposed an administrative penalty of €700,000 by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). The reason? Simple. Breaches of administrative regulations. In another case, OSHA fined Dollar...

Along with logging, refuse collection, and truck driving, construction is considered a high-risk occupation. That’s why construction safety training is so important. In 2020, more than 130,000 construction workers lost their work time due to illness or injuries. Roughly 20% of worker fatalities are reported from this industry, costing companies billions of dollars each year....

If you think compliance is expensive, try non-compliance – Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, Paul McNulty A recent study indicates that healthcare providers in the U.S. still have a long way to go when it comes to compliance. One-third of the respondents said that their organizations have only one person in the compliance office. 50% of...

Google. Gap. Pandora. Dropbox. Accenture. BlackRock. What’s common between these companies? They are diversity champions! Known for their successful business, these companies are also talent magnets. Wonder why? Let these numbers tell you a little story. According to the online job portal Glassdoor, more than 65% of job seekers consider workplace diversity important while accepting...

Data security is the biggest challenge in the healthcare industry. The largest medical health record breach ever in history was that of the health insurance company Anthem in 2015, where data of 79 million patients was compromised. More than 41.4 million patient record breaches were reported in the United States alone in 2019. In 2020,...