The pilot was established with a little over 拢360,000 of support from the CITB, to enable the four businesses to become accredited GIRI training providers. During the pilot, trainees were asked about steps they took to mitigate errors and their awareness of potential causes, before and after they had completed training programmes.
'Errors', in the context of the programme, extend through the design and build process, including failures of clash detection during design, and mistakes during construction.
The businesses involved have trained 4,575 delegates between them, working across 25 projects over 26 months. Over the course of the programme, those who had completed training spotted 拢92.6m in potential cost of errors.
The programme employs a 'train the trainer' approach, with the companies becoming the first four employer GIRI approved training providers. This contributes to low training costs per employee, as training is designed to be delivered in groups of 12 people. On average, cost of training was 拢79 per person.
On the basis that the training had cost 拢361,306 and had avoided errors potentially costing up to 拢92m, GIRI calculated the return on investment of 拢1 of training as 拢256.48 in savings.
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