Automation benefits for WHS (Workplace Health and Safety) and how it can help to create enormous time saving benefits.
Historically WHS departments have been ladened with documentation, paperwork, and time spent ensuring compliance and reporting. Often the processes of completing and performing WHS tasks become an arduous drag for staff to be involved in.
Automation benefits for WHS departments:
- Limit risk
- Safer for staff to perform their jobs
- Able to provide real-time information and support to their staff
- Easy for staff to complete required forms and information
- Management can view and access reports to help make qualified data base decisions
Digitisation efforts for WHS process have been generally silo based. No doubt you’ve seen apps for incident forms or pre-checks, but these siloed approaches are ultimately made redundant by the need for a wholistic view of WHS across a business.
Automation benefits for WHS departments could include recruitment, induction, employee onboarding, inspection forms, incident forms, notification workflows, staff and asset management, communication, access to policy and procedures, Action Plans, Take 5, SWMS, reporting… The list goes on and on.
So, with this in mind here are three steps you can take to digitise and automate your WHS department:
Content for WHS departments
Whether you have or haven’t got all required WHS processes and documentation organised, a great way to start the journey is to speak to an expert. WHS consultants will look at your current business practises, improve information collection requirements, and provide advice on where your business may be missing key requirements.
How to start digitising your WHS department
Without a streamlined content plan, you aren’t ready to digitise. The best approach is to design FORMS, WORKFLOWS, and REPORTING around your business needs. There is no use choosing a single siloed app or implement systems without having all requirements organised beforehand.
Always look to improve your WHS digitisation process
Digitisation is not a set and forget. At some point you will start a new project, provide additional services, or even have additional compliance requirements imposed on your business. The key is to ensure you have flexibility to change, manage, and improve your digital systems as your business evolves.
Cypher IQ Digital designs digital workflows to empower your organisation to stay connected more efficiently. Automation benefits for WHS departments are a great example of how a department that can easily leverage digitisation and automation, help to create enormous time saving benefits, have peace of mind in risk reduction, and easily maintained compliance.
