Leveraging Technology To Manage Safety Operations on Construction Sites

Construction job sites are one of the most unsafe work environments with more than 20 percent of private-industry worker fatalities being associated with the construction domain. The constant interaction of workers and large machinery exposed wiring, and safety lapses result in non-fatal injuries that can cost the business thousands of dollars every year. On top of medical and hospitalization costs, the organization also has to bear any penalties issues due to the violations of statutory compliances.

Today, technology such as quality inspection software is proving to be a major boon for the construction industry that was riddled with safety lapses due to manual processes and human ignorance. In this blog, we will look at how safety supervisors and on-site managers can leverage robust health and safety management software to optimize the safety measures and considerably reduce accidents and workers injuries on the construction site.

A. Inspection Checking

Safety inspection checklists are critical and help the supervisors and officers to identify potential on-site hazards that can cause injury to the workers. A dynamic safety management system will have features that let the stakeholders create and configure inspection checklists on the go. Swiftly adding/deleting new checklists and immediate organization-wide deployment is one of the biggest advantages of leveraging technology to enhance workplace safety.

B. Safety Gear Lists

At any construction site, the occurrence of bizarre or unforeseen accidents is not a rarity. To ensure the workers are safe on-site at any given point, having proper safety gear is a necessity. If all the workers have access to safety management software, supervisors can rest assured that they are reminded about wearing hardhats, eye, and wearing protective gear and harness through timely push notifications. These features may seem small but the impact it can have on the safety of workers at the construction site is immense!

C. Safety Incident Reporting

One fatal injury at a construction site costs an average of $991,027 in hospital costs to the organization and there is no doubt that safety incidents can have a long and short-term impact on the operations and revenue. While over 50% of the incidents go unreported when you have a robust health and safety management system the incident reporting process can be accelerated depending on the seriousness of the injury thereby leading to effective action and quick response by the concerned authorities. Leveraging technology such as quality inspection software to report safety accidents not only helps address the medical emergencies but also enables the users to inform the stakeholders/team members for immediate attention.

D. Data-Driven Decision Making

The transition from manual-paper based safety management to a digital safety management system empowers the organization to leverage the data about safety inspections, incidents, observations of all the locations to unlock hidden insights. Data collected on the numbers of incidents and the nature of injuries can help the safety managers to identify patterns and optimize the safety operations by the virtue of data-driven insights.

Qualcon is one of the best EHS management systems with a proven impact on the construction domain. If you are eager to know how Qualcon can have a massive impact on workplace safety, talk to our experts and reach us at inquiry@itcube.net

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