Over the past 4 years, Field ID has made progression from tracking safety for rigging gear, to cranes and hoists to fall protection. Now we handle work area inspections and tracking safety data about people as well. You would think that once you have software to track chain slings, it must be no problem to track hoists; but it’s not that easy. After 4 years of hard work, Field ID is now flexible enough to track safety inspections for almost anything in a manufacturing facility, oil and gas facility or mine site. This is commonly referred to as Inspection and Safety Compliance Management (ISCM) on our website, but I have heard another term for this as well: facility safety management. There is even a magazine dedicated to this exact topic of the same name. So what does facility safety management cover? I have listed the top 3 we hear about daily below, but these are just a few.
1. Fall Protection
If you have a harness, you have to inspect it according to the manufacturers recommendations, which is at least once a year. If you have a lot of harnesses (more than 10) you now need to know where they are and when they are due for inspection. Imagine a harness is out on a job for weeks and it is due for inspection, Multiply that problem by hundreds of harnesses and you have a lot to keep track of!
2. Ladders
Before we started up Field ID, I never really thought about ladders. Now I think about them all the time, which is somewhat embarrassing. I certainly never put any thought into the fact that they are required to be inspected. Similar to most items that need to be inspected, a few of them are no problem – but how do you manage hundreds, or even thousands of ladders. Excel just doesn’t cut it.
3. Fire Extinguishers
We have all seen fire extinguishers with stickers hanging off of them. Whether it has been at the shopping mall or a restaurant. Quite often that sticker is a record of inspection, someones initials or signature beside the date that they inspected it. What you probably don’t think about when seeing that sticker, is who is keeping track of it? Who ensures that it is inspected regularly? Well, at a large oil and gas facility or mine site, it is the responsibility of the safety manager, and guess what? That safety manager is required to keep track of hundreds of fire extinguishers and ensure they are ready for action in the case of an emergency.
These are only the top 3 challenges that we hear about every single day. Sure, managing one of them may not seem that challenging, but combine all 3 and add eye-wash stations, first aid kits, hoses, valves, rigging gear (the list goes on) and this is more than a full time job. Having the right tool makes a world of difference.
Tags: End User, fall protection, Field ID, fire extinguishers, Fire Safety, Gas Detection Safety, Harness Safety, Inspection Software, ladders, Safety Compliance, workplace safety
All the 3 protection is almost used everywhere and needed also. Really appreciable, thanks for sharing.
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