The Workforce & Compliance Panel will focus on improving the industry’s workforce development ecosystem, recruiting, maximizing training efficiency and effectiveness, and developing technologies to solve workforce challenges. It also includes researching and addressing current and emerging environmental, health and safety issues to ensure stewardship of industry and communities.

The Workforce & Compliance Panel reflects a recent merger of the Workforce Development and the Environmental, Health and Safety Panels. Projects will focus on improving the industry’s workforce development ecosystem, recruiting, maximizing training efficiency and effectiveness, and developing technologies to solve workforce challenges. It also includes researching and addressing current and emerging environmental, health, and safety issues to ensure stewardship of industry and communities.

In addition to the NSRP major focus areas, the Workforce Panel will focus more specifically in the following areas:

• Recruit, retain and continually develop a skilled and motivated workforce (pathway for critical skills development
• Improve the effectiveness of training content and delivery to reduce the training time for knowledge capture, training transfer, and quality outcomes.
• Develop new and leverage existing technologies to enhance occupational health, safety, and environmental factors and/or reduce injury rates, property damage, and costs associated with compliance.