Insights, updates and thinking on workforce readiness.

The second in a monthly note on the people, customers, product, and ideas moving LUMA1 forward.

New workers are statistically the highest-risk people on your site. The safety program most organizations run for them lasts about four hours.

The first in a monthly note on the people, customers, product, and ideas moving LUMA1 forward.

Every retiring worker takes two things with them: a seat that needs filling, and years of judgment calls and knowledge that were never written down. Most organizations plan for the first and ignore the second.

Most organizations that digitize safety training follow the same shape: years of evaluation, followed by a rollout that takes days. The decision drags. The implementation doesn't.

The UK has committed to the biggest infrastructure build in living memory. The limiting factor isn't funding. It's people. And the question nobody is answering yet is what happens on site while we wait for the workforce to arrive.

77% of workers killed in falls had completed working-at-heights training. Only 16% were properly protected at the moment of their incident. That is not a knowledge failure. It is a gap between training completion and verified readiness at the moment of work.

Most UK contractors can prove competence for every direct employee. Then a subcontractor walks on site, and the audit trail goes dark.

Workforce readiness tends to be treated as a compliance formality. Our April 2026 study, drawing on published data from HSE, OSHA, BLS, and industry bodies across the UK, US, and Canada, suggests the stakes are considerably higher than that.