You know you need to train your employees, but it needs to be flexible enough to accommodate a mobile workforce. Arcoro’s mobile app’s new learning capabilities lets teams learn in the field, where they spend most of their day.

Here’s the problem with conventional training methods: they typically require an office, a desktop, and leaving the jobsite down a worker or two. For construction HR teams, scheduling times for everyone to train can be a logistical nightmare. You don’t want to leave jobsites without enough workers, but you need your field-based employees to get training and certifications, like OSHA hazard training, trade licenses, and specialized machinery certifications. A lack or lapse in training can put your company at risk.

According to a recent report, 37% of workplace injuries occurred during a worker’s first year on the job, resulting in more than 5 million missed workdays and roughly 34% of all workers’ compensation claim costs. Missed workdays cost you real dollars and each workers’ compensation claim averages $47,316 per employee, according to the National Safety Council.

And a missed certification renewal can make a qualified worker suddenly unavailable for certain work, creating compliance exposure, forcing last-minute crew changes, and potentially delaying a job.

Skipping training and certification renewal is not an option, but skipping the office is.

Construction Training in the Field

There are more than 8 million construction workers in the U.S. and nearly all are mobile. Not only do they travel from jobsite to jobsite; they move between buildings, floors, and work zones. Some even travel long distances for projects, spending days and weeks away from home. They don’t need another trip to the office; they need tools that go where they go.

Arcoro’s app lets workers track and complete training, right from their phone, even in spots with limited connectivity.

From the jobsite, employees can:

• View assigned and overdue courses from their phone
• Launch and complete online coursework
• Request approval or acknowledge a policy when a course requires it
• Review a complete training history, including certifications, and completion certificates

Having the tools to complete training and update certifications in the field keeps workers safe, companies compliant, and projects on track.

Benefits of Learning in the Field with Arcoro

With Arcoro’s Unified Mobile App with learning capabilities, construction companies can:

• Give employees a convenient way to complete required learning without a desktop, helping improve course completion rates and reduce overdue or abandoned training for field-based crews.
• Let employees quickly show proof of completed training and certifications in the field, so managers can confirm jobsite compliance without extra back-office follow-up.
• Give frontline employees one place to manage training, track hours, access benefits information and more, all from their pocket.
• Keep every worker’s certifications current as the company grows, without adding administrative work for the HR team.

With 42% of construction HR teams saying their biggest burden is time-consuming administrative tasks, having the ability to train workers in the field, without HR office intervention, is a huge benefit that saves hours.

This new feature is part of Arcoro’s Unified Mobile App, which brings Arcoro Time, formerly ExakTime, and its HRIS, Core HR, together with one login.

Whether you are already using Arcoro or exploring HR technology built for construction, mobile learning is one more way to keep your workforce trained, certified, and ready for the job.

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