The Impact of Digitizing Workplace Safety Management on Construction Industry

In a post-COVID-19 world, workplace health and safety management is going to be more important than ever before. Over the past few decades, business owners have realized that safety of human-capital is the secret behind a successful workplace environment. Stakeholders in businesses that require strict safety norms are constantly in pursuit of finding ways to improve the processes that ensure an accident-free work environment. The construction domain is one of the biggest employers in the world with more than 7% population working in some capacity.

Historically, it is also an industry that has accounted for a large chunk of safety incidents with as many as 20 percent of workplace fatalities in the last decade being attributed to the construction domain. Thanks to technological advancement, health and safety management software are turning out a major boon and a driving force behind the successful deployment of safety inspection at the workplace.  Leveraging Safety management software to overlook the different daily on-goings at the workplace has several benefits for the on-site safety managers, supervisors, and quality assurance experts. In today’s blog, we highlight how digitizing safety management at construction sites can elevate safety measures and eliminate workplace accidents. 

1. Quality Inspection Checklist

A typical constriction on-site is constantly buzzing with a lot of movement of material and human-capital that often includes heavy machinery being operated constantly. In such a dynamic environment, quality inspection software enables the safety supervisors to swiftly create and modify the inspection checklist and digitally record any anomalies during the daily inspection. Digitizing this process empowers the stakeholders and the employees by virtue of knowing which aspects need immediate attention, thereby ensuring the process is constantly optimized for better results.

2. Control Heavy Machinery

As the work on the construction site comes into full gear, the need for comprehensive safety measures increases; especially due to the involvement of heavy equipment such as cranes, excavators, forklifts, etc. Managing the operations manually can become complicated, often leading to avoidable workplace accidents. With a top-class digital health & safety management system, managers can ensure there are no hurdles in the operational flow, thereby empowering the stakeholders to ensure a perfectly safe construction site.

3. Safety Incident Management

Perhaps the biggest impact of deploying a safety management system can be found in the way on-site safety personnel report and manage workplace accidents and safety incidents. Digitizing the incident reporting enables the on-site managers to quickly escalate issues that need immediate attention. A robust ehs management system may also come with value-adding features such as documenting the injured body part, nature of the injury, first-person observations of the accidents, etc., making it easier for anyone in the organization to quickly access key information.

4. Data-Driven Decision Making

Businesses in the construction industry that have already implemented Safety management software have a competitive advantage over their industry peers thanks to the KPI-based reporting. When you capture everything from inspection checklists to accident reporting and safety incident management on a digital system, you capture valuable data that can be analyzed to further optimize safety measures on the construction site. Such insights play a critical role in ensuring the safety measures are always per statutory compliance, leading to a massive reduction in workplace accidents. 

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