What is e-Learning?
e-Learning refers to learning and supportive resources that are made available through a computer and are usually delivered via the web.

What the law says
The law requires that proper training be provided to all workplace parties. e-Learning can help you provide health and safety training in a cost-effective and timely manner.

How e-Learning can help your business
e-Learning can offer many benefits to a workplace:

• Greater retention and faster learning
• Courses available at times that suit the organization’s schedule
• Reduction of employees’ time away from work for extended periods of time
• Elimination of travel and its attendant expenses
• Self-paced learning, allowing participants to take the course at times appropriate and convenient to them, and not just when a public course or instructor is available
• Ability to customize courses to help meet a company’s specific needs
• Ability for learners to see and hear exactly the same content (classroom courses delivered at different times by different instructors may vary)
• Ability for employers to automatically track employees’ progress, including dates, time spent, and scores on any exams
• Availability, for the most part, in multiple languages

What you can do
Consider adding e-Learning programs to support your company’s health and safety training program. Review with your health and safety provider what e-Learning programs are available to suit your particular needs.