SafeWorkPro is used by businesses of all types and sizes. From electrical contractors, construction businesses, manufacturing plants and even industry organisations like NECA Vic. Our customers vary in many aspects, but they all share something in common. They are all interested in making safety simple.

In this article, I will cover why safety needs to be simple, why our customers rave about our safety platform and what makes SafeWorkPro simple in the first place. Lets dig in.

The Safety of People Needs To Be Simple

There are countless sayings in culture about how important simplicity is and this is no coincidence. When was the last time you chose something complicated over something simple? Besides being forced to take the complex route, I would say never. When it comes to something as important as workplace safety on the coal face, simplicity truly is key.  

“The simpler your design, product, or service, the more your users will want to use it, and the easier it is to communicate its value to them.”  – UX Planet

Let’s face it, work is complicated enough as it is. When you throw in a process to improve the safety of the workplace, this just adds another layer of complexity to the work. Convincing them of the value of safety is likely to go right over their head if the process is not simple. The average worker just wants to get their work done, any extra friction to this is likely to cause frustration and leads to an inefficient and ineffective process.  

“high-performance organisations understand that people have a big influence over the productivity and success of the organisation, so they put effort into understanding them.” – Klaus Hofer, CEO of CAT-j

Infact, a lot of the time it is your people that will make or break the effectiveness of your safety system. If your system, process and interface on the coal face or site is too complex, you’re at risk of taking a significant hit to efficiency and effectiveness. In workplace safety, this means an increased probability of someone getting hurt, or worse. So what to do? 

To increase the productivity and success of your safety system, we need to look towards understanding our people. From this understanding, we can better deliver ways to make their work safer, simply. The reality is, our people want to be safe, but they want it to be simple. 

Why Businesses Big and Small Rave About SafeWorkPro

We have covered in an article before how a simple process drives safety compliance, but this is also true for the success of your safety system in actively preventing incidents before they happen. 

The SafeWorkPro platform puts simplicity first. Compliance with legislation like the WHS Act of 2011 and all the various state and federal regulations around safety can be very complex. At it’s core though, they all allude to the same high-level goal. 

What are you doing to keep your workplace safe and to prevent people from being hurt in the future?  

When your organisation is aligned around this goal and everyone can make decisions and take action towards it in a simple manner, the compliance side of things will fall into place. Compliance does not explicitly imply a safe workplace. But a truly safe workplace almost guarantees compliance. 

“Collaboration and consultation are now a key part of any management system, at the centre of this are people.”  – Klaus Hofer

SafeWorkPro makes it simple to align your people to work towards a common safety goal and contribute at their own level, whether that be on the coal face, construction site, processing plant or the back office. Our platform involves and aligns everyone towards the common goal. From designing new job step workflows to completing risk assessments in person, our platform makes every step of the safety process simple and easy for everyone. 

What Makes SafeWorkPro Simple?

The answer to the question is simple. Are you ready? 

SafeWorkPro focusses on keeping people safe

It sounds crazy and obvious, but let me elaborate on why this is not the norm. 

Instead of thinking about how we can comply with all the tick boxes of traditional safety compliance, regulations and standards, we think about people first.  We don’t ask how we can make our platform compliant with as many standards as possible. We ask questions like:  

• How can we keep people safe at work? 
• What prevents people from being safe at work? 
• Where and when do people get hurt? 
• What can we provide that delivers the most impact to prevent people from getting hurt? 

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Our platform was built to be used in our founders electrical contracting business, meaning the primary focus when it was started was not on making just another piece of software on the market. It was made to keep our own people safe. From over half a decade of this journey in creating our workplace safety platform, we have found a few key features that have really made this possible. 

Simplicity at the Coalface: No Fluff User Experience

Our platform is highly intuitive and simple to understand for almost anyone. Your workers don’t need to be high tech literate to sign in, complete a document and submit it. We have taken out as much of the fluff when it comes to the interface to make it as simple as possible, while actually increasing the quality of information that is captured. 

Additional features like fast login, offline submissions and automatic push notifications enhance the effectiveness of our platform. We have spent the time optimizing our user experience to turn complex on the ground actions into quick, simple steps anyone can take in minutes. 

Dynamic and Personal Information Capture: Digital Forms

Why worry about messy paper forms, correcting spelling and crossed out mistakes. Apart from the wider user experience, our digital forms allow managers to build simple and easy to follow step by step processes for any traditional document in minutes with no coding. Our drag and drop form builder can turn the most complex of documents into an easy to follow and complete workflow that anyone can understand. 

Need documents built for you? We provide document building services to help you either convert your existing library into digital forms or start from scratch working with our in-house safety experts. 

Understandable and Actionable Data: Liveboards

We make it easy to bring together all of the data from your safety platform into 1 centralised hub called Liveboards. Visualize your data, see what is happening in your organisation right now and even make projections into the future with pin-point precision. Take control of your decisions with accurate data in real time, not assumptions.