Beiträge von Lance Hodgson
Safety – Safety KPIs
Safety KPIs and how to calculate them Which safety KPI’s are you looking for? The pressure on companies to create healthy and safe working environments is constantly increasing. Part of this pressure comes from external stakeholders, parties and authorities, while the other portion stems from internal workers and teams. These pressures (from all angles) have…
Read more →Software – Fillable forms on mobile devices
Fillable forms on mobile devices What are ‘fillable forms on mobile devices’ People have been filling in forms for a long time, but the way in which they fill in those forms has evolved incrementally but quite dramatically, from pen and paper, to word docs and spreadsheets on computers, and now the latest iterations of…
Read more →Safety – Safety dashboard template
Safety dashboard template A word on why you shouldn’t use those excel based safety templates Excel based safety dashboards were the best and most effective way to track safety number and metrics for many years. Companies could download excel safety dashboard templates and begin filling them out and updating them as new data and information…
Read more →Plant – Field service report
What is a field service report? Let’s answer the question, “What is a field service report?”, and then provide you with enough detail and confidence to do whatever it is that you need to do around the topic of field service reporting. Field service reports are the reports created and completed by field and ‘site’…
Read more →Safety – Key performance indicators for health safety and environment
Key performance indicators for health safety and environment What are key performance indicators and why do they matter? Key performance indicators are the ‘indicators’ which people and companies use to measure performance and progress towards certain goals. Key performance indicators or ‘KPI’s’ have become increasingly popular in recent years as measuring these indicators with smarter…
Read more →Plant – How to create a preventative maintenance plan
How to create a preventative maintenance plan Why create a preventative maintenance plan? Preventative maintenance is defined as the maintenance performed on a piece of plant, equipment or asset (buildings etc.) to lessen the likelihood of it failing. Unlike regular maintenance, preventative maintenance is the proactive maintenance which companies and workers engage in while the…
Read more →Safety – Safety metrics examples
Safety metrics examples Why should you care about safety metrics? All companies understand that it is crucial to create a safe working environment where people can come, do their job, and go home after work. Companies understand this from a moral standpoint, and are acutely aware of the financial and reputation issues associated with not…
Read more →Safety – Safety dashboards
Safety dashboards: Here’s what you need to know Safety dashboard examples The first safety dashboard example below is an incident dashboard. As you can see, this dashboard was created or ‘selected’ in a designated system which automatically aggregates and formats the data into different types of charts and graphs. For example, the top chart is…
Read more →Plant – Lifting equipment inspection frequency
Lifting equipment inspection frequency The importance of lifting equipment Different workers and different companies may be referring to slightly different things when they talk about ‘lifting equipment’. As a relatively general term, the term usually requires a little more context around the industry and use case to fully understand the exact type of lifting equipment…
Read more →Plant – Lifting equipment inspection procedure
The right lifting equipment inspection procedure for you What is lifting equipment? The construction and heavy industries require a lot of lifting; lifting materials, lifting other plant and equipment and moving any ‘load’ from point A to point B (which can be anything from the deepest tunnel to the tallest tower). There are two main…
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