Get Started with Construction Management Innovation A program is an sequence of interrelated projects. You run a project business, so this digital innovation stuff should be like riding a bicycle, right? Maybe not, especially when your projects operate more like...
David Ward
Making Safety Culture of a Company’s DNA
The "Faces of EHS" column in EHS Daily Advisor features Safe Site Check In customer Rod Courtney from Ampirical. Rod talks about creating a safety culture and the importance of using tools like Safe Site Check In to manage workers and subcontractors on jobsites....
Using Jobsite Management Data Case Study (6 min)
Case Study: Using Jobsite Data during Execution & After We'll finish this series not with more theory, but practice. What follows is a real life case study, a how-to for using real time jobsite attendance data on a high risk, time critical tenant improvement...
Construction Jobsite Management Executive Leadership Issues (5 min)
Construction's Culture is Conservative & Risk Averse Construction is an industry constituting a bit more than 6.5% of USA GNP – over $1 trillion dollars. Yet it has at best modest profit margins in comparison to other industries. Its management culture is known...
Jobsite Management Innovation in the Wild (3 min)
Digital Innovation Is Difficult for Field Operations We believe the biggest obstacle to digital innovation and adoption in Construction and other hard-hat / safety conscious industries is field operations. Headquarters, more likely than not, is already largely...
AEC 2023 Industry Predictions
As part of AEC Cafe's 2023 construction industry predictions, the editor reached out to Safe Site Check In's CEO David Ward to provide insight on what he anticipates will happen in the year ahead. Based on the rise in digital transformation, the impact of the federal...
Using Jobsite Management Data to Reduce Costs & Risks (4 min)
Digital Jobsite Management is Coming Digital means using data and software to make better decisions faster, more efficiently, for greater profit. Other industries have shown the way, but it’s happening in construction slowly for many reasons, mostly cultural, in our...
Construction Daily Log Report Essential for Risk Management (5 min)
Daily Log Data for Owners, Project, Safety & Compliance Managers Dailies (aka daily log, daily diary and daily report) are fundamental for many reasons, all of which have one thing in common: If something goes wrong on a jobsite, then attendance data will be...
A Look Ahead at 2023
In this future-forward article, Safe Site Check In CEO David Ward shares insights and predictions for the year ahead. He is joined by other construction industry experts including Ampirical, Prevost Construction and AMG & Associates. To read the full story, go to...
Daily Logs Essential to Jobsite Management (4 min)
Daily Logs: Who, When, What, Why, How Long The most basic requirement of any jobsite workflow control process (such as safety, risk, project management, HR, visitors, etc.) is knowing who is or was onsite, and when, why, and for how long they were onsite. And that...