There are a lot of moving parts to a company’s health and safety programme but an app can bring them all under the same
platform.
In an environment of stringent regulation, it is essential for businesses to have a cost-effective platform to ensure
health and safety compliance for everyone who enters potentially dangerous building sites.
SiteConnect gives employees an easy, convenient way to stay engaged. They can access reporting features on the go,
logging data as they work, saving time by avoiding double entry or tedious engagement with outmoded or separate sources
and systems.
A business’s entire program, from incident reporting to compliance to training to audits and inspections, can exist
within a single, seamlessly configured ecosystem.
“Businesses can protect their people using SiteConnect as their one-stop-shop” says Edward Baddeley, BDM with SiteSoft.
“It is dynamic and malleable enough to be integrated into, and to enhance, businesses at all levels. We also partner
with H Consultants who use it with their clients.
“For medium-sized businesses SiteConnect makes health and safety compliance simple by creating greater engagement among
everyone at all levels,” says Baddeley.
“Bigger enterprises, with personnel on several sites at once, can be confident knowing they have a unified health and
safety platform that can be utilised efficiently.”Emerging and evolving technology
Health and safety technology is evolving rapidly, and many contractors and sub-contractors who still rely inefficient
record keeping are beginning to acknowledge that such methods are obsolete.
“Mobility, too, is a factor. Safety managers can’t be tucked behind their desks all day,” says Baddeley.
“They need to be actively present in work areas, with a mobile app, finding and eliminating potential hazards,
conducting audits, assessing risks, and undertaking other tasks to keep employees safe on the job.”
The different functionality offered by the app creates an ecosystem of compliance, connecting all roles and
responsibilities, maximising efficiency.
The SiteConnect app enables seamless functionality across an entire health and safety ecosystem. It covers compliance
from site sign in, geo-fencing, auto sign-in, QR Code sign-in and site registration to the swift reporting of incidents
and hazards — upline to the board and downstream to all those in close proximity on site.Ensuring safety legislation compliance
Every work site carries inherent risks to those attending for work and visits.
Thousands of work-related accidents are reported to the Health and Safety Authority each year.
These cases are largely due to failures and deficiencies in the occupational safety and health management in
organisations. Injuries and deaths remain all too common occurrences.
To confront this reality, WorkSafe NZ has introduced a rigorous scheme of legislative measures, placing responsibility
for managing work sites squarely on PCBU — executives, and even workers and sub-contractors, with an expectation they be
more proactive and vigilant than ever in order to save lives and prevent injuries at worksites.
Companies, their boards and management teams, workers and sub-contractors all face harsh penalties depending on the
severity of the offence, with failure to comply leading, in some instances, to prison time and multi-million-dollar
fines.
In this environment of stringent compliance standards and responsibility at every level, a mobile health and safety app
like SiteConnect is a crucial element in business operations.
SiteConnect offers multiple layers of protection: reducing the likelihood of injuries to those on site, preventing
inefficiency, and fortifying a business against severe penalties that might ensue as a result of a muddled, neglected or
outmoded health and safety protocols.
Authored by Ed Baddeley, Business Development Manager for SiteSoft