Global economic shifts, evolving digital privacy laws, changing sustainability mandates, and new workforce safety requirements are pushing compliance, HR, and L&D professionals everywhere to be more proactive and strategic when it comes to compliance training programs.
Whether you’re navigating HIPAA regulations in healthcare, KYC protocols in financial services, or OSHA and GDPR rules across all sectors, regulatory compliance today is complex. Staying current with frequent updates to policies and legal mandates, and ensuring every employee stays informed, is no easy feat.
Bridge LMS can help. With our all-in-one training and analytics platform, your company can simplify compliance while reducing the administrative burden on your team. Read on for six tips on making compliance training a breeze with Bridge.
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1) Easily Engage New Hires In Compliance Courses
Starting new hires off right couldn’t be simpler when you’re using Bridge. You can set up automated enrollments for all your essential courses so that each new employee is assigned the necessary training materials upon joining. This ensures no one is overlooked and frees up your HR team to focus on other onboarding activities.
Bridge LMS also offers various tools to enhance the learning experience and help newer employees engage with their training from day one. You can create appealing learning content using multimedia elements—like videos, quizzes, and interactive scenarios—which makes training more dynamic and interesting. This can help improve information retention and keep new hires motivated throughout the crucial onboarding period.
Additionally, you can monitor each new hire’s progress in real time, ensuring they complete their training on schedule. This visibility helps you identify any areas where an employee might be struggling, allowing you to provide timely support or additional resources as needed.
2) Automate Annual Compliance Training
Are you battling through back-office compliance work year after year? Bridge takes the admin pressure off your team with powerful automation. You can easily set up recurring enrollments for courses that need to be taken on a regular basis. This way, employees are automatically re-enrolled in essential training, ensuring they stay up-to-date with the latest information and requirements—all without L&D or HR departments breaking a sweat.
Say goodbye to the stressful scramble to get compliance training set up annually! Instead, you’ll have peace of mind that the right employees are assigned the right courses at the right time, while HR and L&D are freed up to focus on more strategic tasks.
3) Keep Training On Track With Notifications
To maintain a strong compliance posture throughout the year, you need to be strategic in your communication. Setting up reminders and notifications within Bridge LMS is simple and will help you keep learners accountable.
You can easily set up email reminders—tailored to arrive in inboxes as often as you need, depending on what works best for your team.
You can send out the following notification types:
- Program Assigned: Learners are pinged immediately after a program is assigned to them.
- Course Invitation: Employees are notified when they’re added to a published course.
- Completed Course Notification: When an employee completes a course that contains a relevant attachment, they get an email containing the attachment to keep their learning on track.
- Course Update Notification: You can optionally alert employees when a course they’re enrolled in is updated.
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4) Make Mandatory Training Easy With a Mobile App
Employees don't need to be chained to desks to keep up with their training! Bridge makes compliance convenient with a user-friendly mobile learning app.
Employees can engage in their training from virtually anywhere—whether they’re at the office, on the road, or working from home. The same forms of interactivity and media available on the desktop version—such as quizzes and videos—are seamlessly integrated into the mobile platform, ensuring that employees remain engaged no matter where they access training.
The app also keeps learning on track with push notifications that remind learners to complete all of their training modules. With compliance in their pockets, don’t be surprised if you see uptake skyrocket!
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5) Access all the Compliance Content You Need
With Bridge, handling the full spectrum of compliance training challenges is a breeze. If you’re looking for content, we’ve got you covered. We offer a range of pre-built compliance courses. These include modules designed by the workplace safety experts SafetyNow.
You can hit the ground running with engaging content that keeps your workforce safe and compliant from day one. The course catalog includes these safety modules:
- Fire Extinguisher Basics: Teaches fire extinguisher best practices and demonstrates extinguishing techniques.
- First Aid Fundamentals: Covers initial responder responsibilities, legal and ethical issues, and safe patient movement.
- Office Safety: Trains workers in the importance of office safety and potential health and safety hazards.
- Preventing Workplace Harassment: Explores options for preventing harassment to maintain a positive and respectful workplace culture.
- Stress Management: Covers stress, including common reactions, types, and management techniques.
- Five Reasons to Work Safely Today: Helps workers understand the importance of workplace safety and associated dangers.
- Active Shooter Response: Identifies warning signs, explains situational awareness, and outlines actions upon law enforcement arrival.
- Fatigue Can Be Fatal: Ensures that staff can recognize the dangers of working while fatigued and helps them understand how to protect themselves and others.
- Glove Selection and Use: Teaches staff about different safety gloves, their protection, proper fit, care, and use.
- An Injury-Free Office: Helps workers identify common office hazards and learn how to avoid them.
It doesn't end with safety. Courses on topics including soft skills, anti-bias, customer service, conflict resolution, generational awareness, and leadership are all available with your Bridge subscription. These courses can help you create a positive and productive workplace and ensure you keep up with the full range of standards across your industry.
6) Get the Full Compliance Picture Across Your Organization
To ensure compliance across your organization, you need complete visibility. In fact, 64% of organizations that use technology and data to automate compliance activities report better visibility of risks.
Bridge empowers you with analytics that track every learner's engagement, no matter where they are in your organization. You can easily see which learners completed their courses and how they performed. Segmenting learners into groups based on their roles, locations, or regulatory needs is simple too—presenting you with clean, actionable data instead of a deluge of individual figures.
Your compliance team can also take advantage of advanced reporting features, which help you gain a deep understanding of training programs. This gives you the insight you need to continuously improve your compliance strategy. Bridge also simplifies reporting: you can generate comprehensive reports in a few clicks and take the pressure off your team during high-stakes audit periods.
Bridge Helped a Large UK Fast Food Chain Streamline Compliance Across 1,200 Locations
Bridge LMS has helped countless organizations across the globe streamline their compliance processes while reducing the pressure on their HR and L&D teams. Our work with one of the UK's leading fast food chains is a prime example.
This organization’s L&D team was grappling with the complexities of training a franchise-based workforce. A great deal of worker and manager fluidity across locations contributed to the challenge.
They needed a centralized LMS capable of providing consistent coursework, high levels of accountability, and a simple way to carry over learning activities from one franchise to another.
Bridge is the ideal solution for these challenges. The platform helped this organization take their compliance activities to new levels of excellence across more than 1,200 stores. Thanks to Bridge Journeys, the training experience is now streamlined and automated for every learner regardless of where they’re located, without creating additional work for the L&D team.
Bridge Analytics is also helping the organization enforce consistent compliance from both managers and their reports. The L&D team is continuously leveraging data insights that help improve and refine training strategies across all locations.
Thanks to Bridge, this fast food chain is benefiting from:
- An 80% improvement in key performance and service metrics
- 2x higher customer satisfaction rates
- 1.5x increased worker productivity
Stay Compliant With Bridge
Whether you're meeting regulatory mandates, upholding industry norms, or cultivating a culture of safety and accountability, Bridge makes compliance training easy. Get in touch with us today, and we can set up a custom demo to illustrate what we can do for you.
