Strategic Focus: Identifying And Closing Safety Competency Gaps

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Executive Summary

Making certain that all workers have a sufficient level of safety competency is paramount in ensuring compliance and preventing incidents. Safety managers can leverage a combination of complementary processes and technologies to identify and close competency gaps that may emerge, especially as the composition of workforces and workflows changes over time. This report highlights priority areas of the workforce for assessments of competency gaps and examines the processes and technologies that can close such gaps.

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Competency is a key enabler of safer operations
Assessing the workforce for safety competency gaps will highlight intervention areas
Continuous processes must be implemented to address safety competency gaps
Technologies play a pivotal role in identifying and closing competency gaps

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Figure 1. Competency lifecycle management

About the authors

Moses Makin

Industry Analyst
Moses joined Verdantix in 2023 and now works as an Industry Analyst in the EHS and Quality team. He focuses on EHS topics such as contractor management, quality management and environmental services. Before joining the EHS and Quality team, Moses worked as a conference producer, developing events designed for business leaders on a wide range of topics, such as EHS, supply chain sustainability, power purchase agreements, energy storage and artificial intelligence. Moses has a BA in Economics and History from the University of Leeds. Whilst studying for that, he completed a summer exchange in Hong Kong and an internship at the UK Civil Service.

Bill Pennington

VP Research, EHS & Risk Management
Bill is the VP Research for the Verdantix EHS & Risk Management practices. His current agenda focuses on understanding the evolution of EHS and enterprise risk management, evaluating emerging strategic risks and benchmarking technology buyers’ budgets, priorities and preferences globally.

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