Consistent Safety Inspections require Convenient Data Entry

Traditionally, safety inspections have been tedious for everyone involved, but their potential difficulty does not negate the importance of their place in any effective safety management system. One of the greatest hurdles in gaining the “buy in” of any facility’s workforce is the “ask”. We aim to persuade employees to change not only the way they operate, but also their approach to operating altogether. It’s not that we’re all inherently lazy as much as our resistance to change is inherently strong.

Too many big changes in a short space of time often yield mediocre long-term results in terms of adoption. Additionally, too many “asks” that may make an employee’s job perceivably harder quickly cuts down on their willingness to hear us out in the first place. In other words, as Safety Professionals, we tend to become just as infamous as those door-to-door salesmen our parents used to avoid.

Without leading indicators, we’re basically shooting in the dark. At some point, hazard prevention may even come to a standstill. Neither of these scenarios are good news for a positive safety culture, nor our efforts to maintain compliance. Therefore, a third “C” could potentially hold the solution, especially when it comes to safety inspections: CONVENIENCE. The easier any change is to adopt and complete, the greater the momentum that can be created over time. This is the stuff sustainable processes are made of. Presenting safety inspections with a convenient means of completion helps bridge the gap between systematic hazard awareness, identification, and human nature. In this case, the method of data entry fundamentally determines whether our various inspections go from tedious to expeditious.

Streamlining your safety inspection methods with electronic submission software makes the entire process less of a chore. This provides an efficient way to not only collect important data, but also better analyze that information while making critical business decisions. A safety culture largely depends on employee engagement. When we make data entry less of a hassle, everyone is willing to participate. We can better focus on what matters most: keeping your workplace safe through continuous improvement. No longer are we shooting in the dark, we begin to see exactly what might be heading our way.

Regardless of what type of safety inspections you need to conduct, make sure the data entry processes are as streamlined and consistent as possible with reliable, customized software that fulfills your safety management system’s specific needs. Safety should be at the forefront of any workplace, and consistent safety inspections require convenient data entry to keep those processes easy enough for everyone to get involved and stay engaged in the long term.