Project
management and cost consultants
The Leeds office of
international project management and cost
consultants, Faithful+Gould, is tackling the issue
of ever changing health & safety legislation head
on.
Appalled at the health & safety records of a number
of industries and alarmed that in the UK
construction industry in excess of 50 people are
killed each year, Wetherby based software company
Mobile Safety Solutions (MSS) decided to try and
reduce these needless deaths by designing a solution
using Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) technology.
The resulting hand-held, touch screen solution
developed by MSS, geared to reducing risks, health
hazards and injuries sustained by employees in the
workplace, required a period of stringent testing.
As a result MSS approached Faithful+Gould, well
known for being at the forefront of progressive
health & safety provision, who seized the
opportunity to be part of such an important trial.
Faithful+Gould then embarked on a three month
testing period which saw the PDAs being used by
employees on sites all over the country as an
efficient aid to undertaking site audits and
inspections.
Colm Patton, regional director of Faithful+Gould,
said:
“Faithful+Gould is proud of its reputation for being
at the forefront of health & safety provision and
during the trial, the PDAs have proved to be an
immensely useful tool to have on site, especially
when reporting time critical information.
“They will enable us to offer our clients an
enhanced service as we will be able to report
immediately on the information gathered whilst
undertaking a safety audit. In addition, we
anticipate that the PDAs will provide good returns
on our investment by improving the operation and
efficiency of inspections and audits.
“Because our clients and principal contractors can
access the Internet hosted part of the system to
sign-off completed deficiencies and view
personalised reports of the audits and inspections,
the existence of which is automatically notified to
them by the solution, projects will undoubtedly
benefit and our management can also use it to
generate management reports and real-time
statistical analysis on demand.
“The trial demonstrated significant benefits to us
which has resulted in Faithful+Gould signing a
contract to be equipped with the technology for a
further two years.”
Brian Alsford of Mobile Safety Solutions, said:
“We are delighted that the trial has gone so well
and that Faithful+Gould has decided to take out a
two-year contract to be supplied with the solution.
The PDA is the only device in the market that allows
us to practically overcome the drawbacks of
traditional health & safety checks carried out
manually, such as paper work being lost or valuable
delays occurring compiling lengthy paper reports.”
To begin development of the PDA and Internet based
compliance management solution, Mobile Safety
Solutions was awarded a grant of £30,000 by
TeamInteract, a development programme funded by
Yorkshire Forward to promote the use of broadband in
business to Yorkshire based SMEs. MSS was
subsequently awarded the Digital Yorkshire ‘Best Use
Of Broadband’ Award in 2006 at the Queens Hotel in
Leeds.
Email:
alice.andreasen@clothierlacey.co.uk
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