MANAGING HEALTH & SAFETY

ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

People are the most important asset for any organisation. Keeping them safe is not just a compliance obligation, but a social and moral one as well. Deploying an application set on industry standards will simplify and streamline your risk management, hazard awareness and compliance reporting processes. More importantly, it ensures you provide maximum protection for your people.

RISK MANAGEMENT

There is a high level of risk working in the utilities sector. How well do you communicate the level of risk to your stakeholders? Does your Risk Management strategy reduce the probability of incidents occurring?

The greatest potential risk in the Health, Safety and Environmental discipline is to expose your workforce to an unsafe operating environment. The ensuing reputational and financial implications pose a serious threat to your organisation.

What are the core components of reducing that risk portfolio to your stakeholder community?

RISK ASSESSMENT HAZARD AWARENESS

Does your organisation have a “Single Point of Truth” for assessing risk for your locations and assets? The ability to simply and easily understand what the level of risk is throughout your asset portfolio will serve your entire stakeholder community.

Many organisations find this information distributed across multiple business units and software solutions, with little clarity as to who is responsible for maintaining the information. More importantly, there is no method to ensure the information is correct and being communicated to the people who need to know every day.

HAZARD AWARENESS

Hazard Awareness alerts workers to the dangers that exist as they arrive at an asset to perform maintenance or repairs. 

By deploying a dependable mobile technology solution into the field, an organisation can allow field staff to carry the operations centre in their pocket – enabling almost immediate productivity, efficiency and safety outcomes.

In the case of a power pylon, a beacon on the tower can activate a notification on a worker’s smartphone that says, “Here are the 3 things you need to to be aware of at this particular site.” This builds on the consolidation of information and brings it to the mobile devices of your workforce to keep them constantly informed of potential hazards.

EVENT MANAGEMENT

With workers operating in hazardous and remote environment, ensure effect and compliant responses to Health & Safety events is critical.

In order to safeguard employees, satisfy regulatory compliance and internal policy, it is essential to provide a document and effective process for the reporting and managing of incidents or H&S events. Facilitating this process through mobile applications speeds up the process by instantly alerting the appropriate response team or individuals,  dramatically improves the quality of the data provided and creates a full audit trail and response log, ensuring compliance and providing a powerful tool for continual process improvement.

AUTOMATING 'PERMIT TO WORK'

Where proposed work is identified as having a high risk, strict controls are required to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the workforce. Utilising Certus’ Mobility platform allows remote worker to ensure that their work is carried out against previously agreed safety procedures, with a documented and auditable procedure designed specific to ensure that their skill sets match the ‘risk’ associated with any given maintenance procedure.

MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

It is essential to ensure compliance and that the safety of employees is not compromised by any direct or indirect changes to either processes or physical assets. Managing this through a documented and automated change process, ensure that the correct process owners are notifies and up or down-steam ramification are proactively identified, ultimately ensuring employees remain safe and that all procedures are current and accurate. Change management also provides a full audit trail for compliance.