Desktop software tools
such as Excel, Outlook and Access are useful for many business applications, but they are NOT designed or reliably configured for managing health and safety compliance as an essential business process. More...
- Most companies already invest in dedicated systems to manage other key business processes—production, accounts receivable, inventory—because they cannot be efficiently operated using these tools.
- Desktop tools are designed for personal productivity, but are dependent on a person’s memory, attention span, and manual skill!
‘In-house’ solutions
for a single organization’s business process management is an expensive, time-consuming, and often open-ended endeavor that can detract or distract managers away from executing other core business priorities. More...
- Information Technology (IT) personnel have expertise and budgets for developing and supporting the unique, core business processes such as production, business development and customer support.
- Building and supporting a ‘one-off’ software application requires an extensive time commitment from IT, safety officers, and managers.
- Safety/compliance managers do not have expertise and experience designing, testing, or troubleshooting real-time information systems.
The tools above, plus paper files and foldersputs your information literally into silos. More...
- When results and outcomes are separated from documentation, the data become less accessible when you need it.
- Your data are not actionable around running your business.
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Content applications
include software products and services that perform specific tasks and delivering “content,” such as safety training, incident management, audiograms, or respirator fit tests. More...
- Using one or more of these tools can help accomplish or automate a specific task, but this approach can inadvertently divide data, documentation and work flow into individual “silos” that actually require more effort or resources to manage the collective information.
- webOSCAR is designed to complement these methods, tools or results to help you manage the entire process of health and safety in a single, real-time system.
Regulatory agencies (such as OSHA and MSHA)
promulgate and enforce regulations, but they don’t provide tools or specific guidance on how to manage the compliance process or data. More...
- They nonetheless hold each company or organization accountable—whether to a specific standard or a general rulemaking that is dictated by the circumstances.
- As regulations and requirements change, companies are responsible for applying them to their specific operations.
- “Best Practices” are determined largely by organizations that operate more efficiently and productively by managing and utilizing information effectively.
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The Status Quo costs a lot more than you think!
In today’s competitive business environment, core business processes are automated— production, accounts receivable, payroll. Why? Because automation leverages information to generate profitability and mitigate risk. More...
- An automated information system is not merely a “database.” It is securely accessible anywhere and anytime, eliminates duplication, performs repetitive tasks according to business rules, and provides performance analytics that support decision-making.
- Surprisingly, when it comes to managing their Health and Safety data, many companies continue to rely on inefficient, “free” desktop tools like an Excel spreadsheet, Outlook, an Access “database” –or even paper files, folders, checklists and post-it notes.
- The consequence of depending on these time-consuming, error-prone tools is when something or somebody slips through the cracks: missing or misplaced information, redundancies, forgetting to follow up, or failing to detect a subtle error or trend.
- When these risks are quantified, they can cost far more in the form of compliance penalties, operational disruption, fixing problems, and lost productivity.
- Find out how supporting your Health and Safety business process with webOSCAR costs far less than what you are currently spending and / or losing in terms of productivity!
Spreadsheets and Outlook aren’t designed for managing the process of health and safety compliance.
Let’s face it: If you rely upon desktop software like an Excel spreadsheet, Outlook, or an Access “database” for managing the health and safety process, you probably are... More...
- Never really “caught up” or current with information—which perpetually places you in “reactive mode.”
- Guessing rather than knowing the “big picture” of performance and outcomes to management and employees.
- Overwhelmed by the task of recordkeeping—a time-consuming, labor-intensive, and boring chore.
- Frustrated by discovering errors or omissions after a problem arises.
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