Is safety compliance on the top of your mind as often as it should be?  Creating a safe jobsite isn’t always easy, but safety negligence is the one thing that can hit your bottom line like a ton of bricks when overlooked.

The good news is that safety experts in our industry are introducing easier ways to be prepared with the help of new technology and automation.  Knowing that the necessary compliance and disaster prevention records are submitted, stored and analyzed with more ease and automation, we are now free to focus our management energy on education, improved gear, and productivity.

OSHA continues to require safety forms be completed within a timely manner, and now it is required Form 300A be submitted electronically through its Injury Tracking Application online portal when an incident occurs, with no exception.  Form 300A provides OSHA with a summary of injuries and illnesses that occurred in your company within the previous year. Automation is the key to decreasing human errors to reporting, reducing time spent on data collection, and minimizing risks of incurring fines.

Here are three additional benefits to following the crowds of successful companies moving away from paper reporting and recordkeeping:

1. Increased Productivity.  With your reports, systems, and team communication all placed online, the time saved on your payroll will be significant.  Time spent filing, sorting and locating important reports will be reduced, and in some cases, eliminated with automation. Incident report submission will be quick and simple.
2. Improved Risk Management.  The amount of data we collect from year to year is increasing and the ability to accurately analyze that data is becoming increasingly crucial.  With automated reporting, we can now customize our reports to reduce time spent in analysis while increasing the scope of risk management with pinpointed data needed to create simple deductions and valuable insight.
3. Boosted Employee Morale and Attendance. The ability to shift our focus more on educating and checking in on our employees has a domino effect impact on your company’s overall profitability.  The direct costs of an injured employee are missed work, workers’ compensation costs, and even potential higher legal costs. The indirect costs become apparent, however, through decreased employee morale.  Automation allows us to spend less time on data collection and analysis and spend more time building, managing and protecting our teams.

Thanks to technological advances, maintaining safety compliance doesn’t have to be time intensive or challenging. Companies like eesyQ are producing customizable software that allows for easy and effective data collection and analysis. A more simple equipment inspection operation standard, performed on a digital device, results in decreased machine downtime and decreased injuries.  Improved communication with a tool such as the eesyQ app contributes to the morale and safety of teams, boosting productivity and overall company profit.

Compliance requirements are not going away, but the process of collecting and submitting data and required reports no longer have to be a dreaded time-consuming task.  Increase your company’s profitability and maintain safety compliance the easy way in just two clicks with eesyQ’s digital inspection and compliance tool.