Modern construction sites face constant, high-pressure risk, yet most safety systems still lag behind. AI, robotics, and site cameras now give field teams faster visibility, tighter coordination, and a better shot at preventing injuries before they happen.
Standards are vital in upholding health and safety best practices, yet the key challenge lies in effectively translating standards into digital inspections with actionable processes for various workplace scenarios. Our on-demand webinar offers essential insights on converting these standards into digital inspections, enabling more efficient and comprehensive safety checks.
Fulcrum, a recent partner of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), introduced the Fulcrum ASSP Starter field inspection platform back in April. One of the two fully-customizable ANSI/ASSP processes that come with the Starter platform is ASSP digital Survey of Job Site. Join us as we go through the app and check out some of its features.
Safety inspections are critical for many reasons – minimizing risk, keeping workers safe, ensuring compliance, building a reputable safety record, and winning new business. Depending on error-prone and inefficient manual methods such as paper-based systems or spreadsheets to perform inspections shouldn’t be the norm – not when there is a much better option available. Digital safety inspection software is increasingly popular for conducting safety inspections, and for good reason. To start, safety inspection software streamlines the inspection process to efficiently capture more accurate data, improving safety-related decisions that reduce risk, and more.
Gain practical guidance on how to overcome challenges when trying to onboard new technologies that should reduce injuries and prevent incidents. Review real-world examples and principles of change management, to identify strategies you should use to overcome hurdles such as technical challenges, cultural differences, human psychology, implementation time and cost.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss how digitization of safety and quality inspections and SOPs can increase productivity, streamline communication, generate safety and quality data, and automatically generate documentation in real time.
As companies get fully back to work following several tumultuous years, OSHA is reasserting its presence and re-emphasizing the importance of workplace safety and OSHA compliance.
Safety inspections can sometimes make you feel like outsiders are trying to find fault with your work. OSHA, of course, requires you to conduct safety inspections, but so do insurance providers, investors, unions, contractors, and state and local agencies.
It’s hard enough to get people to follow normal safety inspection checklists. How much harder is it to gain compliance and effective reporting for permitting processes? Explore ways you can use digital inspection technology to improve your organization’s compliance, documentation and efficiency in permitting.
Health and safety risks are ongoing concerns for any organization with field operations, particularly when teams are isolated from the home office or deployed to unfamiliar environments. When field teams don’t have the right knowledge or tools to identify and mitigate potential hazards, safety risks increase, especially if they are isolated or lack resources in emergencies.
Effective project delivery requires attention to detail, especially in aspects like quality inspections, safe workplaces, and asset maintenance. Relying on instinct alone falls short – measuring processes and outcomes is key. Whether it’s infrastructure development, maintenance, safety compliance, or field-based installations, enhanced data leads to superior performance.
A circuit protection checklist provides a comprehensive list to ensure that your electric power system is meeting all the safety requirements. It also ensures the system is providing protection to your facility against any kind of electrical hazards.
When you look across your projects, consider how your digital data collection processes, quality inspections, safety inspections, and SOPs are ensuring that you’ll realize a profit rather than a loss. Specifically, start with the data — and the ability to measure the quality, safety, and effectiveness of your processes and teams.
Data collection in the field can be more demanding and harder to manage than anything you would see in an office. It’s harder to maintain process consistency, get clean data, and share information with stakeholders. Digital inspections can help, but it’s important to take advantage of all of the capabilities your digital platform offers if you’re going to really move the needle. This webinar will focus on some of the specific requirements you’ll need to optimize digital data collection in the field. It applies to field safety and quality inspections, lone worker scenarios, standard operating procedures, and other data collection requirements. Using Fulcrum as an example, we’ll discuss capabilities that include:
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Going digital increases the rigor of compliance safety inspections and improves the productivity of inspectors. However, digitization must go beyond just improving an individual process. It should enable your organization to use the safety inspection data to truly transform the entire organization so you can be more productive, safer, and achieve better financial outcomes.
Delivering projects on time and within budget is no easy feat, requiring laser focus on a wide range of issues, from quality inspections to asset management, process execution to safety measures.
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The Challenges
Legacy paper-based processes that included time-consuming – and error-creating – transcription tasks
Workflow coordination and connectivity challenges are encountered when coordinating multiple crews, especially in areas with limited connectivity
Inability to easily incorporate national standards and client requirements into inspection processes
Preserving institutional knowledge
Key Outcomes
Fulcrum provides a simple, mobile interface that replaces paper forms, streamlining data collection and reducing errors
Fulcrum’s geospatial integration mapping and offline data collection capabilities allows for smoother workflow coordination, ensuring that inspection crews can work efficiently without being hindered by connectivity issues or location discrepancies
Fulcrum’s customization features enable the rapid creation and deployment of inspection applications, utilizing standardized forms as a starting point to provide guidance and minimize setup time
Fulcrum serves as a repository for critical data, facilitating knowledge transfer and ensuring operational continuity
Background
Brown and Caldwell is 100% employee owned, with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. Senior Principal Engineer Sean Kilpatrick has been with Brown and Caldwell for over 25 years and was one of the early champions of adopting a SaaS field data collection and process management solution.
Discover how to comply with safety requirements, maintain a culture of safety, and use data to tie it all together.
View this engaging town hall discussion featuring expert panelists: Jake Frievald, Karen Hamel, Camille Oakes and moderated by EHS Daily Advisor’s Jay Kumar.
When Snavely Forest Products and Weekes Forest Products digitized their safety inspection programs, they saw immediate and impressive results and proven ROI. By integrating Fulcrum’s field inspection management platform, they not only recouped their annual investment within two weeks but also revolutionized their approach to safety data.
Enhance your construction field inspections with practical, data-driven solutions. This datasheet provides actionable insights to boost efficiency, safety, and accountability. Download it to explore ways to improve your inspection workflows and ensure high standards across all projects.
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Want to boost your field team safety, improve processes with smart, location-aware data, and create a culture of safety that translates into increased reputation (and decreased insurance premiums)? This short video shows how a digital field safety inspection platform can transform your safety program and deliver benefits far beyond worker safety.
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With unsafe working conditions causing thousands of workers deaths and injuries each year, alongside tens of thousands of safety violations, workplaces are rightfully regulated. For a wide range of industries, safety inspections are the frontline tool that make jobs, workers, and sites safer, as well as prevent OSHA fines, lawsuits, and even corporate criminal prosecutions.
Trained professionals conduct regular fire safety inspections to save lives. They ensure compliance with safety regulations. In addition, they assess the functionality of equipment, including sprinkler systems, smoke alarms, fire doors, and alarms. Inspectors also check for hazards such as outdated wiring and insulation, contributing significantly to building safety and fire prevention.
If you’re a safety manager, it sometimes might feel as though the world is conspiring against you.
How specific is the average worker’s understanding of why they engage in safety processes? The crudest of “whys” is that we do it because we’re told to. This leads to “what we dos” that include core safety requirements attained through the “how we do it” of safety precautions and inspections. But such a crude view of the why, what, and how of safety leads to rote compliance: It doesn’t engage the emotions and energy of all of our fellow workers, which means it will never be a core cultural value.
Steel-toed boots and hard hats are only part of the story.
Driving action and insight with field inspection management for safety — and more
Challenges
Unmanageable, inaccessible safety data from paper inspection records across multiple divisions.
Time-consuming manual entry of safety data for report generation.
Lack of consistency to demonstrate compliance with OSHA and insurers.
Ineffective and delayed identification and communication of safety issues
Key Outcomes
A single source of truth for easily referenced digital files (including photos) documenting safety across divisions.
Quick ROI realized through real-time, automatic digitization of all safety inspection data, report generation, issue flagging, and communication.
Automated safety and compliance reporting.
Full visibility into safety issue resolution.
Demonstrable data-driven identification of safety training requirements.
Streamlined safety issue resolution through automatic flagging and direct notifications directly to involved departments.
Expansion of Fulcrum usage to additional use cases, including expansion to fleet operations, training documentation, and more.
Introduction
Snavely Forest Products (Snavely), a member of the MacArthur Company corporate family, is a wholesale lumber distributor. Since 1902, it has been a recognized leader in the wholesale lumber and building products industry, delivering superior material and exceptional service to customers everywhere. James Watts is the Director of Health and Safety, responsible for the design, implementation, and follow-through of all health and safety protocols for both Snavely and Weekes Forest Products (Weekes).
Learn from two safety leaders with more than 50 years of experience to discover how digitizing field inspection management can help you.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s been a long hot summer: at 40.3°C (104.5°F) the UK logged its hottest day ever, a week-long heatwave in Spain and Portugal saw temps of over 114°F and caused the deaths of over 1,000 people, while in China one of a series of heatwaves brought temperatures in excess of 104°F buckled roads and melted tar roofs. Back in North America, places that were always hot are hotter for longer, while other more temperate locales are regularly seeing record-breaking temps. Our summer summary? It’s hot, often miserably so, in a lot of the world for months at a time. While many people spend their days in air-conditioned homes and offices, what of those who make their living outdoors?
This is a discussion on how to gather and use inspection data to improve safety outcomes and drive organizational change.
How digital safety field inspections allow for constant learning, rethinking, and upgrading of the process in each iteration
By regulating, inspecting, and licensing food providers, local and state health departments ensure the hygiene and safety of the food we eat at all the various points in the supply chain, from distribution centers to grocery stores and restaurants.
As recently reported in a Wall Street Journal article, the construction industry has struggled with labor shortages for some time. The retirement of many older workers is one factor. Young people’s reluctance to enter construction is another. These factors coincide with a construction boom stemming from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, further exacerbating labor shortfalls.
According to the latest OSHA statistics on workplace safety, the construction industry remains one of the most dangerous occupational sectors, accounting for over 170,000 nonfatal injuries and representing around 25% of all worker fatalities in the US in 2020 — roughly 3 deaths per day, and the third highest fatality rate of any industry.
A new hope
The Infrastructure Bill provides states with additional resources to make long overdue infrastructure improvements. Under a program specifically targeting bridges, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) will distribute more than $27.5 billion to states for bridge repairs over the next five years, in addition to a newly-created DoT discretionary bridge program which will provide an additional $12.5 billion for projects through 2026.
The day that President Biden arrived in Pittsburgh to give a speech on the Infrastructure Bill – a recently-approved $1 trillion investment in the country’s failing infrastructure – a bridge collapsed just outside the city center. Nobody was killed, but many were injured, and the irony of the timing is striking. The need for making bridges safer is arguably the most visible, serious, and long-standing infrastructure issue targeted by the Infrastructure Bill. Even beyond the tragic loss of life or property damage, a bridge disaster has a chilling effect because of their ubiquity of use, where 178 million trips are taken across structurally deficient bridges every day.
Exploring the U.S. bridge safety crisis, inspection backlogs making it worse, and how digital inspections can help.
This webinar discusses pulling everyone together to reduce time lost to rework, enhance your organization’s reputation and improve margins.
Safety field inspections keep workers safe and operations running smoothly, but that’s just the beginning.
After an elevator went into freefall in Atlanta in August 2021, killing one man, it was found that the elevator in question was long overdue for an inspection because, across the state, many had not been inspected in 2020 due to COVID-related inspection backlogs.
We’ll discuss how to break down your existing safety processes into distinct steps that can be digitized, enriched, and automated at scale.
The 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, tragically resulted in nearly a hundred deaths. This disaster raised serious concerns about condo safety.
The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act introduces new standards for construction and engineering firms. Companies seeking federal funding must now comply with various oversight and evaluation criteria. These criteria span state, local, and federal levels. Compliance is essential for firms to qualify for infrastructure projects under this act.
This research report is jam-packed with data that will help you understand inspection-related challenges across multiple industries.
Learn how inspectors and supervisors gain opportunities for mentorship and guidance in real-time when they use mobile apps.
Learn how digital field inspection management lets your field teams be your environmental safety eyes and ears.
In late 2021, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) encountered a severe problem. A former contract worker was accused of falsifying up to 3,000 electric system inspections over two years. The deception was revealed when a power pole, allegedly inspected and declared free of rot, collapsed into a residential backyard. It sent a live electrical wire into a swimming pool, fortunately without causing any injuries.
