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Digitization reduces risk, optimizes safety lifecycle

Automated approach

May 6, 2020

In the process industries, poor safety performance has significant business implications. Plants need a comprehensive approach to the safety lifecycle addressing key requirements ranging from HAZOP studies, to operations and maintenance, and finally revalidation with the plant’s historian and maintenance data.

Predictive analytics: A powerful new tool

Identify at-risk workers & teams for pilot projects

Jessica Shields

June 19, 2018

Most companies have data that can be used to prioritize and analyze employees, processes or workspaces at elevated risk. But currently, most organizations must first compile and export their data from multiple EHSQ and HCM platforms and then analyze it outside of these applications.

From Safety 2016

Data-driven safety has arrived

Dave Johnson

June 26, 2016

A walk through the Safety 2016 expo floor on Sunday afternoon revealed a stronger emphasis than ever on safety data collection and analysis. The age of "going mobile" has come to professional safety. The idea is to make safety inspections, audits, job safety analyses and job observations faster, smarter, and easier to do.

Alexandria Fire Dept. receives Health & Safety Award in Virginia

March 10, 2016

The Virginia Fire Chiefs Foundation’s “Best Practices in Fire Service Health and Safety Award” was presented to the Alexandria, VA, Fire Department last week during the 2016 Virginia Fire and Rescue Conference.

New version of Predictive Solutions’ SafetyNet App for iPhone and iPad now available

This latest version makes it even easier to conduct jobsite inspections and collect workplace safety observations

January 13, 2015

Predictive Solutions announced today that version 2.0 of the SafetyNet app is now available for download from the App Store. Since the release of the SafetyNet app for iPhone® and iPad® in 2011, customers have been using the app to easily upload inspection and observation data to SafetyNet – the leading workplace safety software for predicting and preventing workplace injuries.

Safety’s thirst for injury data

It is so easy to be seduced by data and somehow think we now “know” how organization thinks about safety

Dr. Rob Long

October 28, 2014

Everything we “know” is retrospective. Humans have unlimited hindsight but limited foresight. This is most apparent in the preoccupation with counting injury statistics. Statistics in themselves don’t tell us the “story” of what they mean; significance is subjectively determined.

ASSE’s Professional Safety Journal:

A new view of the great safety pyramid

September 11, 2014

Since its creation 83 years ago by H. W. Heinrich, the safety triangle offered a ratio formula that encouraged safety professionals to focus on the causes of minor injuries as a way to reduce the probability of having major accidents. It sparked a new way of interpreting safety data that may be flawed.