Embrace Digital Safety Solutions and Enhance Profitability
Compliance with industry safety regulations goes far beyond just protecting the organisation.
Outside of moral responsibilities related to employee health. It is also evident that a workplace centred on worker wellbeing will generally experience increased productivity. In turn, gains in operational efficiency and profitability can also be expected.
In seeking to better adapt their safety protocols, businesses should focus their efforts on how to effectively make the transition into digitised spaces for safety and compliance.
This sort of digital transformation is primarily about empowering employees by helping them stay informed around operational compliance. Additionally, it is about providing tools to better manage exposure to risky situations they might be exposed to while performing their duties.
Key Challenges in Traditional Safety and Compliance
The creation of an environment (and culture) of safety is an obvious prerequisite to the larger benefits that it ends up bringing a company.
One of the initial steps in this process is identifying and addressing limitations within an organisation’s established operations.
One of the more notable factors often overlooked or otherwise dismissed is the continued usage of outmoded mediums and outdated systems within the workplace.
Relevant examples can include things like paper forms and logbooks being used to fill out incident reports. In the digital environment the use of overextended and poorly accessible spreadsheets for the recording of workplace injuries is also counterproductive.
Connected to these challenges are additional limitations related to safety compliance and general worker productivity. When employees are required to make use of manual and inefficient platforms, delays in their duties should be expected. This is simply because they are ill equipped to effectively manage their safety while also having to comply to regulations.
It should therefore be unsurprising that when companies focus on increased profitability, against the backdrop of inefficient safety systems, there is a far greater risk of staff injury and related disasters. Companies also run the risk of lawsuits, fines and other restitution costs.
Benefits of Digitising Safety and Compliance
- Emphasising Control, Management & Promoting Streamlining
Proactive management is crucial when it comes to effectively handling workplace incidents and worker wellbeing.
In seeking to achieve this, companies can make use of centralised digital platforms (such as Wyzetalk) that focus on information accessibility – both for active workers and their managers. By providing employees with the ability to easily access safety and compliance protocols relevant to their duties. Companies promote situational awareness and help reassure business leaders that safety resources are available.
Furthermore, as part of being proactive, digitisation also includes far more readily available data and analytics around risks faced by workers. As a result, internal leaders can more accurately predict high-intensity scenarios and formulate strategies to minimise any threats to workers in those environments.
Regarding compliance with industry statutes, centralised solutions like Wyzetalk enable employees to easily log any incidents. Workers can also report developing hazards or concerns and communicate any additional information applicable to safety situations.
This assists both managers and auditors/inspectors in more effectively assessing and tracking proposed solutions to safety concerns. While also promoting transparency and organisational accountability when it comes to documenting dangers in workplaces.
ROI Metrics of Digital Safety and Compliance Systems
In the face of the challenges outlined above its readily apparent that a digital safety transformation process should be high on the agenda for companies that have not yet undertaken one. There are multiple benefits to such an exercise and this includes:
- Combatting Workplace Accidents & Delays
By utilising platforms (like Wyzetalk), business leaders are provided with ways to effectively manage risks in order to prevent operational incidents. Simultaneously they are also being equipped to handle any eventualities that would have previously caused extensive periods of downtime.
- Bottom Line Impact
Cost savings around the upkeep of outmoded systems (reduced paperwork and maintenance) as well as eliminating potential fines for compliance failures, insurance costs for incidents and any resultant legal issues.
- Creating Additional Value through Bolstered Productivity
As already highlighted, increased employee productivity is one of the key benefits brought on by digitisation. With workers better able to quickly and effectively perform their daily tasks, there is additional space created for activities previously constrained by a lack of available time.
Overall, it is clear that the ROI when implementing digital safety and compliance solutions is significant. It is fundamental to the success of any organisation’s efforts in creating and maintaining a competitive advantage within their industry.
Looking to the Future
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow daily, especially when it comes to the utilisation of AI.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many look to AI’s abilities with algorithms and how automation could be implemented in predictive safety. With proactivity at the centre of risk control and with current solutions relying on ‘growing’ data sets. It appears that solutions for highly accurate risk mitigation and safety promotion are not all that far from the horizon.
This also applies to industry compliance through better workplace monitoring. By equipping company leaders with the ability to analyse an extremely diverse range of factors within their working environments. While providing them with the ability to check these against previous incidents, it allows organisations to more easily be proactive in the compliance space.
Based on current developments in predictive safety and [better] compliance through automation, it certainly appears that its utilisation will feature strongly in future developments in digital safety.
Key Takeaways
By taking steps to promote incident management and prevention through centralised digital platforms while also providing staff with tools to help them better understand risks associated with their duties, companies can create an internal culture focused around employee wellbeing and empowerment through information.
Digital safety transformation is essential for businesses and is an underlying component in creating a competitive advantage within any industry. As the focus on worker well-being increases. The need to enhance and in some cases overhaul safety approaches is going to become a business imperative business leaders will not be able to ignore.
To bolster your organisation’s safety protocols, talk to an expert.