Elevating Competency Frameworks Through eLearning Solutions

How Do You Meet the Competency Challenge Today?

Download this paper to examine how a Learning Management System (LMS) champions competency-based training, demonstrating its benefits in building and managing succession planning to improve overall safety performance. Several case studies offer invaluable insight into lessons learned.

The IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) devised a notable roadmap plan to help organizations establish process safety competency and develop a framework to maintain and assess competency. This guidance recommends six practical steps to support the implementation of a framework or model. Formal training with planned learning track programs and competency mapping is key to assessing its competency. A competency framework like the one developed by ISC can be further enhanced when using an LMS.

A competency-based training approach provides learners / employees with an understanding of which skills and knowledge are needed to carry out their jobs, record progression, and offers visible status tracking of a learning path for themselves and management. An LMS is a software application designed as an eLearning ecosystem to handle all aspects from delivery, management, and assessment, to reporting. Moreover, a quality LMS enables individuals and organizations to identify competency knowledge gaps, providing a realistic understanding of how and where to improve future training development.

Several case studies will highlight these benefits “before” and “after” the pandemic to offer invaluable insight into lessons learned. Applying the ISC’s six recommended steps for Development Activities with a quality LMS designed for process safety strengthens overall competency development.