Intertek Alchemy Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Course Authoring Tools: This program can help create courses and add videos, SOPs, photos, videos and other assets to make courseware applicable. Content can be customized and given to large groups. Users can build new courses or copy and tweak old courses. Engaging elements include voiceovers, interactive quizzes, remediation loops, “game show” type competitions and more. It’s modeled after PowerPoint. Courses come in English, Spanish and French and can be automatically translated for employees who speak a different language.
• Auditing and Compliance It offers tools to help an organization get ready for audits. This includes a safe place to store training records and access to records while offline. It saves time that would be spent manually entering records. The software also helps with scheduling training, paperless reporting, automatic reporting and verification and training comprehension and application. For managers, it can supply standardized action plans or corrective behaviors.
• Courseware: The platform provides a library full of course materials such as practical training for manufacturing workers, frontline workers or other technical employees. Users can insert content that varies from site to site to ensure accuracy. It then helps with retention through gamification, competitions and quizzes. Courses can be viewed at the most convenient time for workers.
• Industry-Specific Topics: Each industry comes with tailored training so employees are only learning what they most need to succeed. Here is some of the training that’s offered:
  
• EHS: The environment, health and safety classes include prevention for back injuries, ammonia accidents, combustible bust, electrical safety, ergonomics, falls, hearing protection, knife safety, machine guarding, lockout/tagout procedures, preventing fires and protective equipment. It also covers how to communicate in GHS accordant ways.
  
• Food Safety: The food safety classes include the basics of bacteria, cleaning and sanitization, effective hand washing food contamination prevention, HAACP, handling food allergens, listeria and others.
• Leadership Training: The Alchemy of Leadership uses coaching tools, short modules and retention techniques to fully equip supervisors. Courses include active listening, anger management, building trust, communication, dealing with difficult conversations or people, engaging employees, delegation HR courses, leader behavior, managing change, performance evaluations, teamwork and more.
• Operations: Classes in this category are contamination trim, GLPS or Good Laboratory Practices, handling cargo, lean manufacturing, preventative maintenance, root cause analysis and more.
• Customization: The platform can create learning plans catered to specific jobs, departments or skill gaps. Reinforce the material with evaluations, tests and hands-on teaching.
• Professional Development: For management teams looking to facilitate learning and development, it helps with training, career development and career education. The classes come from industry experts and help employees keep in top shape.
• Coaching App: The app is geared toward helping manufacturing supervisors with pre-training observations, strengthening relations with workers and opening lines of clear communication between different stores or locations. It can measure training effectiveness and reinforce important information. For high performers, it’s a great way to recognize them.
• Consulting: For organizations that need extra help, the company offers custom solutions regarding topics like GFSI certification, food safety plans, internal auditors, HAACP plans, FSMA compliance and helps companies get high scores on the SQF, BRC and FSSC 22000.

Limitations

• Users say the videos and tests are generally very long
• Some say the reporting doesn’t cover enough
• The training is very specifically geared toward the distribution, food service and manufacturing industries

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