Construction has its fair share of risks. Working at heights predisposes workers to slips and falls, improper wiring is a major cause of electrical accidents, asbestos and other toxic airborne fibres can cause respiratory problems, and plant equipment may cause on-site accidents.
With all of these potential risks, it’s clear why safety is such an integral part of the construction industry. In fact, it goes beyond a matter of simply keeping staff safe, but protecting your business from non-compliance with industry standards like AS 4801 in Australia and OSHA in the United States.
Today, technological innovation has driven effective digital tools to ensure safety and compliance in construction. Here are five apps you can consider using to create a safer job site.
1. Safety Meeting Construction App
The Safety Meeting app covers more than 950 safety topics and 34 trade types. This makes it suitable for general contractors, subcontractors, and specialty contractors. This app enables you to document and track OSHA required meetings, and provides for an unlimited number of users and multiple administrators.
It also enables you to document meetings, incidents, accidents and near misses, create checklists, take pictures of meeting attendees, incidents as well generate reports.
2. Safety Reports App
The Safety Reports app is a web-based inspection management system compatible with iOS and Android mobile devices. It’s an inspection app that utilises comprehensive inspection checklists that are based on regulatory standards. These checklists do not only refer to applicable standards, but also have hyperlinks to the standards themselves.
You can choose from 22 preloaded construction and general industry standards, and safety categories with customisable multiple inspection items. Safety observations and reports are automatically generated.
3. iAuditor
iAuditor app by Safety Culture allows you to conduct paperless inspections and audits anywhere, using any mobile device or tablet. It also consists of a drag-and-drop template that makes it easy to create customisable checklists that fit the safety demands of your construction project.
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iAuditor also generates detailed inspection reports that provide insight and facilitate quick response to problems. This app enables you to use inspection data to improve end-to-end safety and quality.
4. CCS APP
The CCS app enables stakeholders to review 7000 plus best-practice safety questions in 180 work categories depending on the work being performed. This is a tool designed to ensure workplace safety that avails quantitative and intuitive tools, for safe practices to be created, updated and shared.
The CCS app also enables toolbox talks and includes the ability to take digital signatures. It enables you to track leading and lagging indicators such as pre-task planning, site observation, supervisor assessment, and job hazard analysis. Incident reports, property damage reports, accident reports and utility hit reports are also generated. This app is great for transparent, real-time safety audits.
5. Vault Notify, Check and Audit Apps
If an incident occurs at a job site, it’s important that all required information is gathered in a timely and effective manner. The Vault Notify app enables you to record information and take photos from any mobile device. This app also sends incident alerts and gathers immediate feedback on corrective actions to be taken. This is a cloud based app and can also operate offline.
The Vault Check app makes it easy to conduct record and share inspections. With this app you are able to manage your processes, assets and people. You can create schedules as well as access reports from your phone. This tool makes inspections fast and easy.
The Vault Audit app allows you to plan your audit while in the office and complete your investigations from your mobile device. It comes with templates that you can use for different audits, and allows you to collect visual evidence such as photos and drawings.
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