Your Health and Safety Software Partner

In short:

• Health and Safety Software, otherwise known as Environmental Health and Safety Software (EHS Software) or Occupational health software (OSH Software), is a cloud based platform that enables safety professionals and management teams to proactively manage and reduce workplace risks.
• It typically features tools for conducting risk assessments, carrying our audits and inspections, reporting incidents, completing investigations, training and compliance tracking.
• More often than not, Health and Safety Software replaces manual, paper and excel based processes, with a centralised digital system to enable organisations to continually monitor and improve workplace safety.

In short:

Health and Safety Software is used to help organisations ensure a safe, healthy and productive workplace environment for all employees, contractors and the general public.

It can be used to create and centralise risk assessments, schedule and carry out audits and inspections, report and investigate hazards, near-misses and accidents, track CAPA’s, and store important safety documentation such as policies and procedures.

Key features include:

• Risk Assessments: helps organisations to quickly and easily identify, manage and control workplace risks, from one central location.
• Audit Management: empowers organisations to create, schedule, track and complete audits and inspections from anywhere, in real-time.
• Incident Reporting: tools that allow organisations to capture, action, report and analyse information on hazards, near misses, accidents and injuries.
• Action Tracking: help organisations assign and track the status of open and closed corrective or preventative actions.
• Document Management: provides a central repository for all safety policies, process and procedures. These can also be linked to risk assessments.
• Data and Analytics: provides real-time insight into safety performance across an organisation.

Typically, it will comprise of a cloud based web platform and a mobile application. The features that exist within each safety management system differ from various suppliers.

Key benefits of Health and Safety software:

• Visualise safety data across different companies, sites or departments
• Easily create and share risk assessments across your business and supply chain
• Be assured that risk assessments are read and understood across your business
• Report and investigate safety events such as near-misses or accidents – on or offline, via the web or mobile devices.
  Assign and track actions in real time
• Be assured that audits, inspections and checklists are completed on time, to the desired standard
• Demonstrate that the latest versions of policies, procedures and processes are being accessed and followed.

SHEQ Software allows organisations to effectively manage and control health and safety risks across their business. It also enables organisations to manage their quality processes and keep track of their environmental goals.

This can include product quality reporting or conducting environmental inspections for example.

The best safety management software incorporates ease of use and flexibility for users. This includes tools such as mobile-first applications to help engage employees in safety reporting and customisation elements so organisations can tailor the system to their exact business needs.

A good health and safety management system also allows safety professionals to quickly and easily identify and analyse trends in data. This enables organisations to prioritise improvement initiatives and implement corrective or preventative actions before a more serious accident occurs.