Plans are to design, test, and facilitate the program and services in the pilot project, and later provide these services as learning center portals to companies. The full-scale project would include all training levels and commence a nation-wide training program once the expanded model was developed and approved. Development, however, would be on-going as change continued to impact Thai industry. For each company (institution or business) the model would be as be as self-sustaining as possible.

Costs and Benefits

The awareness training is experiential, enhancing retention for application, and reducing contact time to achieve competency. (See Appendix for additional benefits). Detailed cost breakdown would come from the Strategic Plan and Pilot Project but a suggested annual budget for achieving a life long learning competency process for safety awareness would be 4000 baht.Costs – 4000 baht per person per year to establish and maintain competency; 4000 baht per person for each additional level sought (Executive, Manager / Supervisor, Safety Officers, and Basic training).

The fee for competency would not include cost of factory learning stations but would include learning systems, server hardware, and software. It also would include the provision of system start up costs for facilitating, maintenance, overseeing usage and feedback, on-line operating fees, tutorial for computer-based training, and upgrading processes.

Full-scale development costs would be approximately 4,500,000 baht; capital expenditures for central computer server and operating system to handle 2 million users (2,500,000 baht). Total development costs would be estimated to be 10,500,000 baht.

The breakeven point in numbers of safety trainees (x) would be conservatively estimated to be less than 1000, calculated as follows:

10,500,000 + 4000(x) = 20,000(x) = 10,500,000 / 16,000 x = 656 (<1000)

In summary, LIS will: