In this newsletter from EssentialSkillz:

• Drug & Alcohol Awareness this Festive Season
• Environmental Awareness training for ISO 14001
• One in three sick days falls on a Monday!
• Quick, easy & cost effective safety e-learning
  

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Drug & Alcohol Awareness this Festive Season
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The approaching Festive Season is a timely reminder for organisations to review
their Drug & Alcohol Policy. However, even with an appropriate policy in place
how can organisations ensure their staff are fully aware of it?

EssentialSkillz have developed a 20-minute online Drug & Alcohol Awareness course
that provides employees with information regarding the dangers of alcohol and drug
abuse as well as specific rules regarding the use of these substances in the workplace.
Following the course a multiple choice test demonstrates each employee's awareness
and understanding of the policy should this ever be required by the organisation.
The course can be easily customised, free of charge, using our Content Development
Tool (CDT) to reflect each organisations own policy and inform employees of any
specific assistance or testing programmes that may be in place.

Once the course has been customised it can be exported to run on an organisations
own Learning Management System, or, on EssentialSkillz purpose built Compliance
Management System, O-LAS. Using O-LAS will not only drive completion but it will
also record on each individual's record who failed to start, or complete the programme
within the allocated time frame.

For a free, no obligation, evaluation of Drug & Alcohol Awareness, or any of
the latest range of E-information courses including Data Protection and Swine Flu
and You, please call us on 0844 448 4414 or Click Here.

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Environmental Awareness training for ISO 14001
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Over the past few weeks we have noticed an increased demand for our Environmental
Awareness course. As part of their ongoing commitment to ISO 14001 customers are
looking at effective ways of increasing employee awareness and participation in
their endeavours.

EssentialSkillz 'Environmental Essentials' course was designed for this purpose
and like all our courses can be easily customised and run from either a customer's
Learning Management System or our purpose built Compliance Management System, O-LAS.

For a free, no obligation, evaluation of Environmental Essentials or any of the
other titles on EssentialSkillz growing library of H&S and HR courses please
call us on 0844 448 4414 or Click Here.

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One in three sick days falls on a Monday!
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A recent analysis of sickness management records for 11,000 individual employees
across a range of private sector organisations has confirmed that UK workers definitely
don't like Mondays!

While we all knew this already the analysis has shown that 35% of sickies happen
on a Monday with only 3% being taken on a Friday, surprisingly. The highest rate
of absence, by far, occurs in January, and musculo-skeletal problems are the most
common cause, followed by viral infections and stress-related illnesses.

EssentialSkillz Absence Management Software is designed to compliment and enhance
our market-leading DSE Compliance and Stress Management solutions. O-LAS is the
only system that can report on the rate, cause and cost of absence, while also managing
ergonomic and stress programmes such as the DSE Regulations and the HSE's Stress
Management Standards.

Without comprehensive absence data the effectiveness of health screening and wellbeing
programmes cannot be properly measured, monitored or targeted. As the well respected
mantra goes, "you cannot begin to manage what you do not measure".

To fully appreciate the capability of the software and the range of the dashboard
style reporting within our software we would encourage interested parties to conduct
a free trial and/or ask for a full on-site demo by calling us on 0844 448 4414 or Click Here.

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Quick, Easy & Cost Effective Safety E-Learning.
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As the end of the year fast approaches we would encourage you to consider using
any remaining budget to make a wise investment in e-learning!

To remain competitive organisations need to embrace technology and switch at least
a proportion of their spend into proven, value for money, investments such as e-learning.
EssentialSkillz offer the most technologically advanced yet easy to use e-learning
system in the UK Health, Safety & Compliance market. Our software is unique
in allowing you to:

• Create your own Risk Assessments
• Create your own online Courses and Tests
• Free to customise online H&S and HR courses, Click Here for a full list of courses
• Run other SCORM compliant courses
• Manage absence across your organisation
• Use just one system to comply with the DSE Regs and the Stress Management Standards