WORKPLACE SAFETY AT ITS BEST
At Aalborg Forsyning, safety is a top priority for the entire organisation, and with the requirement of zero accidents as a high-risk company, there is a particular focus on ensuring that all employees are aware of the conditions to create a safe working environment.
Therefore, Aalborg Forsyning has set a clear requirement that everyone working for or with the utility company must undergo the company’s digital courses on environmental and workplace safety. These courses are provided by us at Conzentrate through our Learning Management System, Learning Arena. But how do you ensure that employees—both internal and external—complete the required courses before accessing the workplace? For Aalborg Forsyning, this was one of their challenges. A challenge that we at Conzentrate could solve for them.
LEARNING ARENA AS AN ACCESS CARD
Aalborg Forsyning’s access control system, Symmetry, is provided by G4S. Previously, employees and external parties were manually entered into the access control system when they needed access to the company’s buildings or permission to work at external locations. When employees’ access needed to be extended or updated, this also required manual handling from the company’s side. It was difficult to maintain an overview of who had access to the building and who needed to update their access cards.
In collaboration with Aalborg Forsyning, we have created a solution where Learning Arena works together with G4S Symmetry for issuing access cards. This means that every time an employee completes one of Aalborg Forsyning’s mandatory e-learning courses on workplace safety, they are automatically registered in G4S Symmetry with a profile that matches the course or courses they have completed. This way, Learning Arena ensures that the skills an employee or external visitor acquires through digital learning directly relate to the parts of the location where the access card is valid.
“At G4S, we are pleased with the collaboration we have with both Aalborg Forsyning and Conzentrate. Through this collaboration, we have developed a really good and easy solution where we help Aalborg Forsyning keep track of all their employees and guests.”
– Casper Nielsen, Installation Manager at G4S
All employees at Aalborg Forsyning are automatically enrolled in Learning Arena via the utility company’s employee system. This automatic transfer of employee data gives them easy access to Learning Arena. External parties are enrolled by a contact person at Aalborg Forsyning and subsequently receive a link to the SAFE course.
Both internal and external individuals are automatically reminded when it’s time to update their skills to renew their access cards. Learning Arena thus supports a smooth enrollment process and automated reminders to users, minimizing the daily operational effort for Aalborg Forsyning.
“We take our safety seriously. It has been a priority for us to ensure that only those employees who have completed the course have access to the workplace.”
– Allan Jeppesen, IT Project Manager at Aalborg Forsyning
With its structure, Learning Arena offers a highly flexible approach to developing customer-specific extensions. We are therefore very proud to have been part of driving a significant digital transformation together with Aalborg Forsyning.
LEARNING WITH A FOCUS ON WORKPLACE SAFETY
In 2019, Aalborg Forsyning began to think differently about their learning materials, which they wanted to update to fully align with the organization. Digital learning was particularly attractive to Aalborg Forsyning, and with this in mind, they put the task out to tender to various suppliers. We won the tender at Conzentrate because both quality and price were aligned.
“We wanted to create new learning materials with more specific communication and the ability to change the content.”
– Allan Jeppesen, IT Project Manager at Aalborg Forsyning
