Wallet certificates will soon be a thing of the past?
This year the Ontario Ministry of Labour in partnership with technology provider SkillsPass, provide certificates for mandatory training like Working at Heights and Joint Health and Safety Committee certification access to proof of training online.
On SkillsPass, every training record is associated with a worker’s unique online profile and safely secured in an online database. The Worker Portal is the tool workers use to maintain their profile of training records and demonstrate their safety competency at the jobsite.
Each worker carries a unique, scan-ready QR code, which links back to their complete history of training. Print it or go paperless, SkillsPass’s one card validation is accessible from anywhere, and expiry notifications ensure timely retraining.
Employers can create corporate accounts that can be customized without wasting time duplicating data while providing useful search functionality so that finding specific worker training records is easy and accessible. As a SkillsPass partner, Act First Safety can even register all of your workers participating in non-CPO approved training programs into the SkillsPass system for a nominal fee.
SkillsPass represents a fundamental shift away from the wallet card system of yesterday. SkillsPass awards digital training certificates to a worker in our cloud-based training record database. When a worker claims these certifications by setting up a worker profile, they are building a lifelong learning record that can never be lost, misplaced, faked, or falsified. In return, those participating employers and training providers that populate the system with these records get a maintenance-free record keeping system to support their compliance efforts, reduce red tape, and save lives.
This new system is really changing the way training records are tracked and shared.
Why Should You Join SkillsPass?
Safety training is a critically important part of a safe workplace. But take a moment and consider all the barriers that manually tracked safety credentials impose on your workers. How many are refused access to a worksite? How many retrain unnecessarily? Wallet cards can get left at home or another vehicle, are lost and stolen. Training can lapse when expiry dates aren’t watched carefully. Electronic certificates remove these concerns.
- Lost and/or damaged certificates can be easily replaced without visiting the original training provider
- Training records are online, so certificates can be viewed from any desktop computer, tablet or mobile phone.
Skillspass helps workers with training renewal, issuing them email notifications when training is due to expire