Keeping Students and Staff Safer at Kirklees College.

West Yorkshire, UK

Location

Huddersfield and Dewsbury

Completion Date

March 2024

Project Duration

2 weeks

Project Information.

Kirklees College

Kirklees College is a large further education provider in West Yorkshire, offering a wide range of academic and vocational courses to over 13,000 students. With campuses across Huddersfield and Dewsbury, the College supports school leavers, apprentices, adult learners, and businesses with high-quality education and training.

The challenge

With thousands of students and staff moving through its sites each day, Kirklees College needed a more effective way to share important health, safety, and wellbeing messages with staff and students across its busy campuses.

Traditional printed signage was easily missed, quickly outdated, and didn’t provide the flexibility to respond to incidents or changing guidance.

The Health and Safety team were looking for a more modern, efficient solution - one that would help them keep people informed and create a strong culture of awareness across the College.

The solution

The Audiebant Mass Communication system was installed across key locations within the College. Screens were strategically placed in high-traffic areas which ensures that messages are seen and absorbed. Using a simple, secure content management platform, the Health and Safety team can now:

Instantly publish urgent messages or updates

Keep safety and wellbeing guidance front of mind

Share tailored content relevant to each location

Manage everything centrally, from any device

The system is designed to be intuitive and future-ready, with the ability to scale and adapt as the College’s needs evolve.

The results

Working in partnership with the College’s Health and Safety team, Audiebant delivered a tailored solution that’s now supporting a safer, more informed college community. The system also plays a key role in helping the College meet its obligations under the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (also known as Martyn’s Law) that requires venues and public spaces to have robust plans in place to protect people from terrorist threats.

Audiebant has significantly improved how Kirklees College communicates with its students and staff. The team now has complete control over content, ensuring that vital safety messages are delivered quickly, consistently, and effectively.

The Feedback

"This has been transformational. The system is simple to use and allows us to communicate the right message, to the right people, at the right time. It’s helping us keep people safe and informed, and the support we’ve had from the team has been outstanding."

- Rob Harwood, Head of Health and Safety, Kirklees College