Safety is a not a new topic or a topic that will ever disappear from the minds of many professionals in any manufacturing, construction and service industry. What may change is how organizations plan for safety. We recently read an interesting article about how the occupational health and safety of organizations is shifting from a reactive to more proactive approach. The goal of the organization is to spend less time reacting to situations and to spend more time on tactics that will prevent safety issues. These prevention initiatives include spending more time on employee training, assessment of risks and adoption of a management or prevention system.
The study also indicates that the number one driver of organizations to develop their safety plan is to comply with laws and regulations. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but if the goal is to be more proactive it is critical that organizations find a cost effective method of implementation to manage the regulations that they face on a day to day basis. Many of the regulations and laws require some sort of time and resource consuming audit, observation, or inspection be completed and recorded to ensure that the “rules” are being followed.
One way organizations can help manage the regulations and be more proactive to safety needs is to implement a mobile inspection, audit and observation system. A mobile system can help complete and document faster and more efficiently the inspections and audits required to comply with many regulations and laws. It can also help manage the assessment of safety risks that occurring in an organization by allowing the organization to complete an inspection of the facilities and ensure that the resolutions of concerns are dealt with in a time efficient manner.
One mobile inspection system that can help organizations is inspectiTRAC. inspectiTRAC™ tablet-based software is designed to make the inspection and auditing process trouble-free by integrating the inspection/audit criteria and location visuals directly into the program design, thus reduces the time needed to complete inspections while also reducing errors in data entry. The system links seamlessly with inspectiTRAC™ manager, a cloud-based management tool for reporting, alerting and scheduling audits and inspections, and inspectiTRAC™ administrator, a platform for creating and editing the maps and inspection criteria used by the inspectiTRAC™ program. Read more about how inspectiTRAC is helping a Fortune 500 organization manage their safety inspections then visit the inspectiTRAC website to learn more about how it help your organization be more practice in managing safety.