Safety Tech in the UK: Skills and Capabilities
An analysis of skills and capability needs within the UK safety tech sector.
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The report, ‘Safety tech in the UK: skills & capabilities’, looks at how the safety technology sector (‘safety tech’) accesses the talent it needs, in particular the skills and capabilities for digital, data and technology roles. The findings are based on qualitative research carried out with 11 safety tech companies and underpinned by quantitative analysis of the UK’s technology labour market.
The report outlines the technical skills and capabilities required by safety tech businesses and highlights the challenges experienced, namely:
- Safety tech is losing out on technology talent who would find its mission compelling
- Safety tech needs to actively recruit for diversity while it builds its profile
- Safety tech companies take the burden of putting data privacy, security and ethics first
- Safety tech companies need support in how to sell their products and how to keep users at the centre of their development process
The report makes recommendations against each of these challenge areas in order to ensure that safety tech continues its rapid early-stage growth.