A Risk Assessment Productivity Case Study: how to save time and money
Your business has a problem that you may not even realise exists. It bites way at your productivity, drains your resources and cripples the moral of your workforce. This problem is so embedded into your business model that the prospect of any alternative seems unnecessary and even unpleasant.
In construction, risk assessments are just part of the job. Completing safe work method statements, formulating risk management strategies and then consulting with your workforce is all part of the typical risk assessment workflow. The paperwork is a hassle, filing takes time and compliance requests are just one of those annoyances you have to put up with, right?
Wrong.
You may feel comfortable with the old way of doing risk assessment forms but unfortunately the paper-based method, although tried and tested, is wasteful and costing your business time and money. Whether you’re a business owner, site manager or tradie, risk assessments in the workplace are unnecessarily long and time consuming.
The Problem with the Paper-Based Risk Assessment Process
The sheer number of different safe work method statements (SWMS) in circulation is enough to give you a headache. Organising them all into one place costs money in terms of administrative overhead, not to mention the amount of office space filing takes up. Each worksite is unique and comes with different hazards and risks. Finding the right paperwork for the job takes an almost supernatural sense of premonition. Unfortunately you are not a fortune-teller so predicting how the risks in construction will change as a job develops can throw all your paperwork into a tailspin and render it utterly useless. Also, and let’s be honest here, all this paperwork is just bloody annoying.
Take our risk assessment case study for example. Using an electrical contractor that employees 12 workers, we estimated that our risk assessment software could save this business between $10k to $17k every year. We looked at how much time was spent of paper-based risk assessments and then at how much this process cost. The old saying ‘time is money’, has never been so true but if you’re still not convinced, just check out the below flowchart.
How Risk Assessment Software Can Help
Now all this isn’t to say you should just stick your head in the ground and forget about the risk management process altogether. You could try but sooner or later the regulators would catch up and you’d be facing some pretty serious penalties. Instead it’s time to think about how practical risk assessment software can help you identify risks and neutralise them. Check out just how much quicker the software alternative is below.\
That’s right, technology has the answer but don’t go running for the hills just yet. At SafeWorkPro we’ve developed safety management software that is so simple even your mate’s work dog could figure it out. We’ve achieved this through active consultation with tradies and contractors, not computer technicians who have never even touched a hammer before. SafeWorkPro’s risk management tool can be used on any smart phone or tablet device, and works to streamline the entire risk assessment process. Your safe work method statements are stored digitally – ready to be accessed and implemented into your risk assessment at any point. Then it’s as simple as of scrolling through various options, signing it and sending it away to the manager for storage as a PDF file. All this is done without the hassle of multiple forms or filing, and leaves you with more time to get the job done.
SafeWorkPro gets you on the job quicker, with more safety and in total compliance.
