Leveling up Recruiting and Safety with Gaming Apps

Mobile games encourage continued usage by promising prizes, levels and rewards for advancing through challenges.

Construction managers are capitalizing on younger generations’ interest in these types of games, especially on mobile platforms, to recruit and promote safety through educational construction apps.

Simcoach, a Pittsburgh-based educational app developer that has been creating educational apps for about 15 years, has partnered with local contracting associations, such as the Constructors Association of Western Pennsylvania (CAWP), to help teach young, potential construction workers the basics of onsite safety and equipment usage.