Using MYSKILLSmanager for quality assurance compared to the CM3 pre qualification and compliance standards offers several clear benefits that enhance workforce compliance, safety, and overall performance
1. Core Functionality
- CM3: Primarily focuses on contractor prequalification and compliance with safety standards. It provides organisations with a structured system to verify that contractors meet specific safety requirements, certifications, and risk management protocols before beginning work.
- MYSKILLSmanager: Goes beyond prequalification by providing an integrated skills management system that continuously monitors, measures, and documents employees’ performance, skills, and competencies. MYSKILLSmanager also addresses safety but is broader in scope, covering workforce productivity, skills development, and evidence-based performance management.
2. Scope of Safety Management
- CM3: Focuses heavily on the initial screening for safety compliance, ensuring contractors have proper documentation, certifications, and qualifications to minimise workplace safety risks from the outset.
- MYSKILLSmanager: Emphasises continuous safety management and development through its Evidence Excellence feature. This feature ensures that safety practices are not just a one-time compliance check but are reinforced through ongoing evidence collection, skill assessments, and field evaluations, helping to foster a safety culture and keep compliance up to date.
3. Evidence-Based Approach
- CM3: Provides a snapshot of safety qualifications at the prequalification stage, relying on contractors to provide documentation for their credentials and licenses. However, it may lack the ongoing evidence collection and detailed skill tracking post-qualification.
- MYSKILLSmanager: Built around the concept of Evidence Excellence, MYSKILLSmanager continuously collects data and evidence of skills performance, safety practices, and competencies. This system can provide real-time evidence to support compliance, such as during audits or in response to new legislation (e.g., industrial manslaughter laws). This continuous approach strengthens accountability and transparency within the organisation.
4. Skills Development and Productivity
- CM3: Primarily aimed at meeting safety standards and compliance, CM3 doesn’t extend into areas of skills development or productivity enhancement. It focuses on ensuring contractors meet baseline qualifications but does not actively measure or improve worker performance.
- MYSKILLSmanager: Designed with a focus on workforce productivity, it leverages a Performance Skills Measurement Framework that monitors skill levels across key areas. MYSKILLSmanager drives workforce improvement by identifying and bridging skill gaps, enhancing both safety and productivity through an evidence-based framework for development.
5. Integration with Workforce Development
- CM3: Acts as a standalone system for safety prequalification and may have limited integration with broader workforce development systems.
- MYSKILLSmanager: Easily integrates into organisational workforce development strategies, supporting talent management, onboarding, and training. Its capabilities extend into roles and responsibilities, helping to create structured pathways for career growth and competency-based development within the organisation.
6. User Engagement
- CM3: Used primarily by compliance and procurement teams to ensure contractors meet minimum safety requirements.
- MYSKILLSmanager: Designed for broader usage across HR, management, and operational teams. It promotes active engagement from employees and supervisors by gamifying performance management, encouraging skills improvement, and integrating real-time feedback loops.
7. Compliance and Risk Mitigation
- CM3: Well-suited for initial risk mitigation by verifying that contractors meet regulatory safety standards before project commencement.
- MYSKILLSmanager: Provides a more dynamic approach to compliance. With a continuous evidence trail, organisations using MYSKILLSmanager can reduce long-term risks by maintaining up-to-date records of skills, compliance, and performance standards over time, helping them stay resilient in the face of evolving safety and legal standards.
Summary
While CM3 is a valuable prequalification tool for contractor safety compliance, MYSKILLSmanager offers a more holistic, ongoing approach that combines skills development, safety management, and productivity tracking within a single system. MYSKILLSmanager’s emphasis on continuous evidence-based performance and integration into broader workforce development strategies makes it particularly well-suited for organisations seeking a comprehensive approach to building a safer, more skilled, and productive workforce.
