Testimonial "On the second Tuesday of each month, Konover has a mandatory Project Managers and Superintendents meeting. When this group gets together, we discuss PureSafety training and they always comment that it is much more enjoyable than the "old way of training"." Mike Capazzi Corporate Safety Director

Konover Construction, based in Farmington, Connecticut, provides construction management, design-build and general contracting services to New England and the Mid-Atlantic since 1950. Konover Constructions' buildings include retail brands, custom-built education, senior living, and corporate facilities.

Mike Capazzi, the Corporate Safety Director, is responsible for ensuring that his 89 Site Supervisors and Project Managers receive the proper safety training. Prior to PureSafety, Konover Construction relied on standard classroom training, held either after 5:00 or on weekends, in a variety of locations. This methodology created many problems:

• When people were trained on a Saturday, they felt resentful because it interrupted family time. When they were trained after 5:00, they were too tired to pay attention.
• A 5:00 training class usually meant shutting down the construction site at 3:00, costing Konover money and valuable construction time.
• For a variety of personal or business reasons, every training class had many no shows, requiring significant time to be spent coordinating make-up classes. These classes translated to more time and money lost.
• As a certified OSHA instructor, Mike wanted to provide the best training he could spending hours preparing for training classes, which translated into less time spent on construction sites.
• Tracking class completion was 100% manual and generating reports was a major chore.
• When all of the above factors were added up, the total cost of classroom training was outrageous.

While Mike was attending a construction meeting, he happened to talk to an insurance vendor who had a PureSafety training CD. Mike was impressed with the animation and decided to do a little research relating to online training. He soon found out that OSHA recognizes online training and aggressively pursued this alternate (and simpler) method of training Konover Site Supervisors and Project Managers. Between personal laptops (or home computer) and the trailer computer, employees had easy access to their assigned courses.

Since August 2004, Konover Construction has enjoyed many benefits as a result of implementing the PureSafety online training solution.

Supervisors and Project Managers do not have to leave their jobs and sites never need to be closed down, resulting in an estimated savings of over $2,000 a month.

Employees do not have to take the entire course at one time. If they need to get back to work, they simply bookmark the section, and return to the exact spot when time allows.

Employees love the fact that they can take courses on their own time, day, night or weekend. Employees enjoy the interactive nature of the courses and compliance is close to 100%.

Supervisors and Project Managers no longer have to travel to a training site after hours or on weekends. Mike no longer has to spend countless hours coordinating classes, preparing for classes and manually tracking course completion.

Once a week, Mike runs a training report and sends it to the Senior Vice President of Operations, who likes to stay informed relative to who has been trained and on what subject. Previously, obtaining this information would have been a serious manual effort.

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