With the new HRDD legislation, HP sought a holistic and proactive approach to its value chain capacity building program, seek to cover both breadth and depth (specific risk focused) and scale the worker empowerment program. HP’s value chain is large, cutting across several industries and in dozens of countries, a scalable, flexible approach for supplier worker training was critical. Finding a solution that could be implemented in a variety of locations, supplier types and languages, resources on a system level to monitor learning progress was key for HP’s deployment success.
HP wanted to ensure all workers in its value chain, regardless of their risk levels, are educated on rights and responsibilities.
The Solution: Focused Training, Flexible Deployment, Dynamic Reporting
Using WOVO eLearning, Labor Solutions worked with HP to help achieve this goal. In the first year HP mandated 40 suppliers ensure all workers completed Labor Solutions’ digital training on Fair Working Conditions.
The initial goal was to establish fundamental awareness on rights and responsibilities. “People is a core HP sustainability pillar. HP make serious efforts to ensure human rights due diligence in our value chain. As part of mitigating, preventing Human Rights issues, HP aims to increase knowledge and awareness of value chain towards Human Rights by providing capability building in the form of all accessible and ever convenient e-Learning approach,” said the HP Human Rights Team.
HP choose to partner with Labor Solutions to select and deliver relevant lessons for its value chain. Labor Solutions creates and regularly updates the eLearning in partnerships with industry leading subject experts such as Better Work, IOM, ETI, etc., ensuring workers get the most accurate and updated knowledge about their rights and responsibilities. The lessons are all interactive and workers' knowledge is assessed through embedded quizzes and assessments.
Labor Solutions designed a practical phased training program for supply chain workers.
Focused: Workers are provided with only one lesson at a time.
Flexible: The digital training could be deployed in multiple ways according to workers' and suppliers' workplace and technology environment.
Workers accessed the learning via WOVO App or web-based Learning Management System, allowing them to take the lesson anytime, anywhere.
Offline training mode means workers can take eLearning without using data.
Suppliers also used WOVO LMS for group classroom learning.
Live, Dynamic Reporting: HP’s WOVO dashboard allows them to track eLearning progress by supplier and view data at facility, country or global level. This reduced the amount of time the HP team needed to spend on oversight and collecting data from suppliers.
Focused: Workers are provided with only one lesson at a time.
Outcomes:
71,525 workers at 40 suppliers, completed training on Fair Working Conditions within one year.
Soon, these workers will be trained on additional specific topics like Health and Safety, Responsible Recruitment.
HP looks forward to expanding the eLearning program and has integrated it into its human rights strategy.
In the coming years, in addition to expanding the depth of the digital training, HP plans on expanding training to even more workers throughout its supply chain.
“HP is committed to empowering 1 million workers through worker empowerment program. The trainings serve as a part of the channel to realize our commitment towards empowerment to the value chain,” said HP Human Rights Team.
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Labor Solutions’ tools and services are designed to engage, connect, and educate workers across global supply chains by empowering suppliers to own human rights data and address risks as they arise. Whether you are starting with any scale supplier employment project – we tackle all challenges big or small – get in touch with our team at info@laborsolutions.tech.