Occupational Health & Safety Inspections with Paperless Solutions

Occupational Health & Safety inspection or commonly known as OH&S inspection is something that has ever grown in importance. What seemed trivial at certain times, now seems crucial. What is important is that businesses and organisations are able control their OHS in the workplace to the best of their abilities, not only in a responsive manner but a preventative one too. This means adequate inception methods to catch things way before the issues become problems, and inaction turns into consequences. Leading businesses and organisations across several industry sectors and fields are now turning to paperless inspection solutions to manage their OH&S inspections. This not only gives them the best platform to launch their OH&S within the workplace, but the digital nature keeps them up to date with the latest regulations, and up to date with the ways of working in the 21st century.

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Forward thinking organisations and businesses have always been rewarded for changing early to impending changes in the operating environment. Those that challenge the status quo gain the first mover advantage and can showcase genuine leadership in the industry. For safety inspections, many businesses and organisations saw the benefits of having their OH&S on a digital platform. Managed by mobile device in the form of tablets and smartphones, OH&S inspection means that there are several inspections that can feed into an OH&S inspection ecosystem. It means that there are several data points to be measured, which through the various devices and inspection methods, can be kept track of in a better way than with ‘regular’ inspection methods. New features such as photo evidence or using QR codes or RFID for information storage and retrieval improve the speed and accuracy of the OH&S inspection data itself.

?For OH&S managers, digital OH&S platforms are a welcome tool to utilise in the name of safety. Not only is there the knowledge that it represents the best inspection process and tool that is available for use, but there are several tailoring or customisation opportunities. Besides the trigger notification and automatic email alert mentioned above, there can be automatically suggested corrective actions. Going back to the incident, a user that reports the issue can get a corrective action that either solves the issue straight away, or remedies the state to the best possible temporary outcome. This can give management a great peace of mind in knowing that OH&S inspectors or general staff that flag incidents not only let everyone else know of the issue, but have the knowledge available to know exactly what to do until reinforcements arrive.

?Revolutionising OH&S inspection doesn’t have to be a tough and lengthy process, with digital it can be neither. Whether you work in an construction, agricultural, oil and gas or mining organisation, OH&S inspections remains a fundamental aspect of your workplace.

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