About Safework Solutions

Despite hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on safety systems that included safety professionals, training, and reporting, Berry Bros., a large oil and gas contractor, sadly experienced a fatality on the job in 2013. They were blindsided by this because they thought they had a good program. With better than average OSHA incident rates than the industry peers, how could this possibly have happened?  But more importantly, how could it have been prevented in the first place? Even with all of the safety professionals and programs that were in place and the significant efforts to control hazards, there was still no indication that there was a safety problem.

 

To make sure this would never happen again, Berry Bros. hired a board-certified safety professional to perform an independent, comprehensive safety audit of their company's safety systems. While many improvement opportunities were identified, the method by which safety key performance indicators (KPIs) were gathered was clearly a major challenge. Manual processes using conventional spreadsheets and office-based software were very inefficient, highly expensive, and sometimes took months to produce metrics.

 

They needed a scalable solution that offered a real time, proactive risk-based management system to help drive continuous improvement. They needed technology that could monitor, track, and measure extensive recordkeeping requirements and performance metrics, such as behavior-based reporting and trending, inspections and hazard reporting, and corrective action tracking.