December is often a busy time for companies. Between year-end closings, stock-taking, production demands and accumulated fatigue, it is not always easy to keep teams focused on occupational risks.
Yet prevention efforts remain necessary, even as schedules fill up and the holidays approach.
To keep raising awareness during this period, Ludengo offers a prevention Advent calendar, made up of mini-games, quizzes and challenges about occupational health and safety.
Each day, employees discover a new activity that takes just a few minutes on their smartphone, tablet or computer. The format builds on a familiar December ritual while adapting it to the company’s prevention priorities.
How does the prevention Advent calendar work?
The principle is that of a classic Advent calendar: a new door to open every day. The difference is that participants do not find a chocolate behind it, but an activity dedicated to occupational risks.
Depending on the calendar’s theme, this may involve spotting a hazard in a work situation, answering a question about personal protective equipment, choosing the right behaviour in the face of a risk, or taking on a small challenge.
Each activity takes a few minutes and can be completed on a smartphone, tablet or computer.
Employees therefore do not need to gather at a set time. They can take part whenever they have a free moment in their day, whether they work in an office, a workshop or on a construction site.
The calendar also includes a points system. Participants progress through the activities and can track their results. At the end of the campaign, a gift can reward the employee with the highest score.
This approach keeps interest going over several days while gradually covering different safety topics.
Why use an Advent calendar to talk about prevention?
An awareness campaign has to find its place among the many messages employees receive every day.
In December, this challenge can be heightened by year-end constraints. The calendar spreads prevention messages over several days, with activities short enough not to take up much of the teams’ time.
Regular reminders rather than a one-off action
The calendar makes it possible to come back to safety concepts every day, without concentrating every message into a single event.
One day might focus on slips and trips, another on manual handling, then on protective equipment or business travel.
This progression offers several opportunities to test one’s knowledge and review instructions that are often known but not always applied with the same care.
Concrete situations to test knowledge
The value of mini-games lies in getting employees actively involved.
In an observation game, for example, the participant has to spot the hazards in a work situation. In a quiz, they choose an answer and can revisit a rule they had misunderstood.
These activities make it possible to approach prevention differently from posters or top-down communication.
Content remains essential, however. A game about occupational risks is most relevant when it is based on situations participants may actually encounter in their job.
An activity accessible to field teams
The calendar requires neither a training room nor any special equipment, apart from a device to access it.
This flexibility makes it easier to roll out in companies whose employees are spread across several sites, work shifts, or spend much of their day in the field.
Everyone accesses the activities when they are available, while following the same calendar as their colleagues.
Playing solo or as a team: two ways to take part
The Ludengo Advent calendar can be run in individual or team mode.
In individual mode, each employee answers the questions and earns their own points. This format lets everyone take part at their own pace, whatever their position or workplace.
In team mode, points are attributed to a group of employees. It then becomes possible to run a challenge between workshops, departments, branches or site teams.
In a construction company, for example, several sites can take part in the same calendar. Each team accesses the daily activities and contributes to a shared leaderboard.
The team format can also encourage discussion around the questions. An answer can spark a conversation between colleagues or provide an opportunity to revisit an instruction that is applied differently from one team to another.
The leaderboard adds a game dimension, but the calendar’s main purpose remains to involve as many people as possible.
Which occupational risks can be covered?
The Advent calendar can be dedicated to a single risk or bring together several prevention topics.
Ludengo offers in particular two ready-made themed calendars, each addressing different work situations.
The construction prevention Advent calendar
Building and civil engineering trades expose workers to a wide range of risks. Falls from height, manual handling, co-activity and the movement of machinery all require daily vigilance.
The construction calendar covers these themes through activities adapted to the situations encountered on construction sites.
Participants may be asked to identify a hazard, check their knowledge of personal protective equipment, or think about the precautions to take before starting a task.
The aim is to reinforce good practices using examples close to the field.
This calendar can be offered to a single site team, several branches, or all employees of a construction company.
The road risk Advent calendar
Road risk concerns professional drivers, but also employees who regularly or occasionally use a vehicle for work travel.
The road risk calendar offered by Ludengo includes 18 mini-games playable on a smartphone.
The activities cover topics such as speed, driver fatigue, phone use, safe following distances and vehicle loading.
Each mini-game addresses a driving situation or reinforces a safety rule.
This calendar can support an awareness campaign aimed at mobile employees, van drivers or sales teams.
How to prepare and roll out your Advent calendar
Even though the format is easy to use, a few decisions need to be made before launch.
The first concerns the topics to cover. A company can choose an existing themed calendar or focus on the risks most present in its activity. The occupational risk assessment (in France, the DUERP), feedback from the field and incidents that occurred during the year can help select the themes.
Next, you need to decide who will take part. The campaign can involve all employees or a specific audience, such as site teams, drivers or the staff of a particular facility.
The choice between individual participation and a team challenge also depends on how the company is organised.
Finally, it is worth announcing the calendar before 1 December to explain how it works, how to access it and any rewards on offer.
Self-service deployment or with the Ludengo team
The calendar can be deployed independently from the Ludengo platform. Companies that want to manage the campaign themselves can prepare their calendar, share the access link with employees and track participation throughout.
For those who prefer support, the Ludengo team can also help prepare and roll out the calendar.
The team can assist with choosing content, configuration and organising the campaign, depending on the company’s needs.
The goal is to let prevention teams set up the calendar without having to spend significant time on its technical preparation.
Once the campaign is under way, the results make it possible to track participation and identify topics that caused difficulty. This information can then be used to plan further awareness actions.
It is worth bearing in mind, however, that a good quiz score does not guarantee the right behaviours in the field. The calendar complements the training, discussions and prevention measures already in place.
What options does Ludengo offer?
Depending on the time available, internal resources and the level of customisation required, there are three ways to set up an Advent calendar.
The ready-to-use calendar: €380
This option lets you choose a ready-made themed calendar, without having to prepare the questions and mini-games.
Ludengo offers content dedicated in particular to construction risks and road risk.
The calendar is configured, then an access link is sent to the company to share with employees. The activities are then unlocked according to the planned schedule.
This option suits organisations that want to run a prevention campaign without spending time creating content.
Price: €380 for a ready-to-use calendar.
The custom calendar: on quotation
When a company wants to address risks specific to its activity, a personalised calendar can be designed.
The questions, mini-games and challenges can then draw on internal procedures, the risks identified in the risk assessment, or situations employees actually encounter.
The company’s visual identity can also be included, as can content linked to a specific prevention campaign.
The calendar is designed with the Ludengo team, based on the objectives and materials provided by the company.
Price: on quotation, depending on customisation needs.
The do-it-yourself calendar: from €39 per month
QHSE managers and prevention departments who want to design their own activities can use the Ludengo app directly.
The authoring tools let you create quizzes, mini-games and challenges, then arrange them into a calendar.
The company keeps full control over the content, the topics covered and how the campaign unfolds.
This option also lets you reuse the app for other awareness actions throughout the year.
Price: from €39 per month, depending on the chosen subscription.
A format that can also be used outside December
Even though the Advent calendar is associated with the year-end holidays, the principle of a daily activity can be reused at other times.
A safety week, a campaign on musculoskeletal disorders, road risk awareness or the onboarding of new employees can also be organised as a progressive journey.
A company could, for example, offer five activities over one week or run a challenge between several teams on a specific theme.
The Ludengo app thus makes it possible to keep using quizzes and mini-games beyond December, in line with the actions planned in the prevention programme.
Key takeaways
The prevention Advent calendar offers employees a short activity every day in December, on topics related to occupational health and safety.
Accessible from a smartphone, tablet or computer, it can be run individually or in teams, with a points system and a leaderboard.
Ludengo offers ready-to-use themed calendars, customised versions and tools for creating your own activities. Deployment can be handled independently or with support from the Ludengo team.
For QHSE managers and prevention professionals, this format is an additional way to keep safety conversations going at the end of the year, without adding long awareness sessions to teams’ schedules.
Would you like to prepare a prevention Advent calendar? Explore the solutions on ludengo.com or contact the team to discuss how to set one up.