Safety on the construction site should be every worker and manager’s top priority. For a construction safety manager specifically, if you don’t have secure safety processes in place, you could be putting many lives at risk. This includes both individual workers and the overall safety of the projects that are produced.
To make this role even more complicated, safety protocols now extend past ensuring workers are wearing the right PPE and properly trained. With the spread of COVID-19 still a threatening factor in 2021, these construction safety managers have their work cut out for them, more now than ever before.
In this blog, our team at Safe Site Check In explores the pain points that these construction safety managers are facing, and how a digital safety tool can combat these challenges.
Challenges Construction Safety Managers Face
There are quite a few pain points and needs that construction safety managers must find solutions for in order to establish seamless safety processes. First, as we mentioned before, they need to ensure that all site visitors are safety trained/certified in accordance with their role on the job site. These safety managers need to ensure that this information is easily accessible and can be updated immediately in case a certification expires, a new hire is onboarded, or new training is required for a worker to continue their work.
Another general safety factor that construction safety managers need to have a firm handle on is knowing who is on the job site at any given time. While referring to written daily logs may seem sufficient, construction projects have a lot of moving parts, especially when it comes to managing multiple locations. With any delivery or project delay comes the need for updating site visitor data in real-time so that safety managers can make adjustments as needed to ensure the job site is secure.
Finally, when it comes to navigating new pandemic protocols, construction safety managers face the challenge of keeping up with ever-changing mandates that must be followed in order to keep their sites open safely. This includes the need for emergency broadcasting as new protocols are implemented and establishing ways to implement health screening that doesn’t disrupt the daily workflow.
Safety Solutions for Construction Safety Managers
Luckily, there’s a digital safety tool that offers simple solutions to these challenges that construction safety managers face.
A digital site management tool, like Safe Site Check In, provides full job site visibility. Construction safety managers have access to who is on their site, when, and why at any given time. This information is stored in a paperless, digital archive, so it’s easy to run daily reports and update any information needed to prepare for the next day.
When it comes to safety training, Safe Site Check In provides an easy way to distribute safety training videos, as well as liability and other policy documents that are required in order for workers to safely and legally perform their jobs. This simplifies the process of onboarding new hires and ensuring that current workers are qualified to perform their duties.
Finally, Safe Site Check In is an affordable way to implement seamless health screening, as a means of maintaining a safe work environment during the pandemic and beyond. Construction safety managers can also reconfigure and adapt to changing site requirements in just minutes, with the ability to send out safety broadcast alerts as needed to keep workers informed of updated health and safety protocols.
Safe Site Check In for Construction Safety Managers
To help you ensure the safety of your construction sites, Safe Site Check In (SSCI) is the digital safety management tool you need to establish full site visibility. SSCI makes construction site visibility quick, easy, paperless, and affordable. It collects visitor data automatically, making job site control easier than ever. You can set up check-in sites in minutes, then customize and adapt to change as workplace requirements evolve. Our back-end data repository makes it easy to validate everyone who was on your site, when they arrived, and for how long.
See how Safe Site Check In can improve the safety of your construction site by taking advantage of our free trial offer.
David Brian Ward is a CEO and Founder of Safe Site Check In LLC, a digital jobsite management platform launched in 2020 for the Construction industry. With over 40 years of experience in the technology industry, having launched and grown several successful companies. Mr. Ward is a now a SaaS entrepreneur and innovation leader in the Construction industry.