Years of construction industry know-how in the palm of your hand

aQuiRe™ is a workforce development and safety training platform that helps construction-related companies improve their workforce’s safety and readiness. The app works on iOS, Android, and Windows platforms with a simple interface, allowing easy access to workers in the construction field. Supervisors and managers have access to a web portal for tracking and obtaining actionable insights.

As companies strive to maintain a skilled workforce with a safety mindset, the aQuiRe™ platform helps eliminate training bottlenecks. It eliminates travel and the situations where skilled workers must take time out from the field for their refreshers. Put simply, the aQuiRe™ system brings the training room out to the field.

Providing a virtual mentor, the aQuiRe™ video library contains decades of organized industry knowledge from experienced tradespeople. Truly a knowledge-sharing system with hundreds of unique, industry-relevant video training modules, and thousands of resources currently available. As companies work towards a safe and compliant worksite, aQuiRe™ helps them become more proactive by assigning training and required procedures ahead of time. Supervisors can track progress and address gaps in real-time.

By reducing risk through quicker training and better compliance, companies can ensure better safety ratings and reduced insurance costs.

The aQuiRe™ platform is offered at a low annual subscription cost per employee. Current clients report a return value of 10x or more annually. The benefits of making know-how instantly available and eliminating paper in the field are immeasurable. aQuiRe™ allows supervisors to take action in real-time, eliminating frustrating work stoppages.

When companies subscribe, their workforce has a variety of training programs immediately available for workers to dive into through the mobile aQuiRe™ app. Categories include Comply, Safety, Site Ops, and Iron. A few module examples:

• Comply: Sexual Harassment annual training, compliance
• Safety: Ergonomics, Falling, Importance of PPE, Confined Spaces
• Site Ops: Track Time (best practices for operating a machine with tracks)
• Iron: Motor Grader Systems Check

Additional modules and categories are continually added at no extra cost.
Companies can develop their custom catalogs of training and testing. Many clients appoint their most experienced workers to work with our media team to create custom content. Supervisors and owners can track progress and reward good behavior. The CAHill TECH team has some best practice recommendations for encouraging participation through reward and recognition programs.

The aQuiRe™ mobile app was designed specifically for construction workers. Many training functions are available with one button click and pointing the mobile camera towards a QR code. These QRs are included on jobsite posters that can be hung in site trailers or made into a decal installed on a piece of equipment.

In our experience, many younger workers are resistant to asking for help from older, more experienced workers and are more productive with mobile-based training. To ensure workers get the correct information at the right time, providing a high level of confidence on the job, many modules are concise, focused, and specific.

Based on the feedback from our users, workers love getting recognition for their efforts. The app includes a function where workers can self-report their accomplishments by displaying or printing a certificate of accomplishment. This is especially meaningful after a series of training and quizzes showing an advanced level of proficiency. Some clients include a popular program of hard hat stickers for displaying training results.

While the reporting analytics for this use case is still somewhat limited (and on the roadmap for future development), we can create surveys for each worker, used for daily logging of working hours.

Recurring Skill Modules are a popular new feature scheduled regularly- daily, weekly, monthly, or annually. This can be helpful for important training topics or standard process adherence. Setting recurrence can be very helpful when companies need to reinforce critical processes and require workers to repeat the associated training regularly.