The recent ISO 45001 is a comprehensive update to the health and safety standards of more than two dozen countries. With companies like Colas Rail, Eurovia, Morgan Sindall, Overbury, and Ringway Jacobs quickly receiving accreditation, global enterprises should take note: the key to certification can be access right on your smartphone.
With mobile inspection software on the rise, now is the perfect time to streamline your quality audits and get ready to meet ISO compliance headon.
ISO is a strong indicator to clients and colleagues that you’re serious about health and safety, but it’s more than a merit badge. When we hear that approximately 2.78 million people every year die from work-related injuries or illnesses and 374 million suffer non-fatal injuries and illnesses, it’s a sobering reminder that the safety of our employees should always take top priority.
Training can be an important component of maintaining a culture of safety, but machines are your most risk-prone assets. Should a piece of equipment cause an accident, it can have disastrous consequences. Performing regular quality controls like those outlined in the most recent ISO regulations remains the best way to ensure every machine in your enterprise is in working order.
The most reliable way to stay on top of inspections is by using devices you’re already familiar with, like tablets and smartphones. Mobile inspection platform integrates seamlessly with ISO compliance – here’s why:
Ready for Any Situation
It could be new work sites, new suppliers, new equipment, or new processes; in any case, you’re going to want to be prepared for whatever comes your way.
Instead of lugging a briefcase packed with every ISO policy form you might need only to later find out that you still didn’t bring the right one, our mobile forms allow you to store every form in the cloud. No more reams of paper to sift through, no more searching through government websites for the right format. Instead, everything is right at your fingertips, neat and compact.
Saving Time with Pre-Fills
Not to be confused with Excel’s primitive autocomplete which suggests values based on what you’ve already entered. Rather, this is a contextual feature that pre-populates fields like the user’s name, location, and date all based on existing data. There’s no point in entering information already in your database when it can be done automatically, saving time for the nitty-gritty of quality inspection.
Working Offline
Sometimes when we hear “mobile application” or “quality inspection software” we worry that it’s an online application that cuts out the moment it’s out of wi-fi range. It’s especially troubling if we’re traveling to more remote areas where the mobile data might be shoddy or non-existent.
However, our forms are built to be offline first. They’re just as effective offline as online, and the tools to inspect for ISO compliance are always available no matter where you go. Simply sync once to receive tasks, and you can roam to your heart’s content. When you’re hooked up to the internet once more, you can make use of the sharing tools to exchange information. With our platform, you won’t have to deal with data outages even if your connection drops at a critical moment.
Managing the Workflow
52% of large UK companies say that they know they have unresolved compliance issues. Knowing your organization is struggling with compliance is the first step. Industry leaders can’t expect ISO certification to simply land in their laps; it takes work, dedication, and excellent data collection.
Suppose you’re dealing with a serious compliance failure. An inspector can instantly snap a timestamped photo, add notes, and share their report it with their supervisor for rapid-fire corrective action. Combining a report with visual documentation is especially useful when inspecting a piece of equipment. When it comes to ISO, you should always document every relevant part of a safety issue.
After the report has circulated among the appropriate personnel, there’s still more to do. With mobile forms you can set a plan for corrective and preventive action in motion, utilizing notifications and automated workflows, not just for administrators but the field-level employees who will tackle the issue in person.
Part of the Bigger Picture
Even after you’ve achieved ISO compliance and obtained a certification to show for it, your safety data over time can help you continue on the path to operational excellence. Using tools like the business intelligence dashboard to analyze and understand your data can help you visualize problem areas. Are the cracks begin to show in your ISO compliance? Which branch and what equipment is out of regulation? With the ability to present all the data you’ve collected in one place, it’s simple and easy to demonstrate trends over time to pick out the lowest performing parts of your business and the very best.
With mobile forms you can upload inspection results to a business intelligence dashboard, which allows you to look at all your locations at a glance as well as probing deeper to see which are coming up to scratch and which, well, aren’t.
See what we can do for you
Still not sure if mobile forms are right for you? Request a demo to see how quality management software that fits in your pocket can bring your business closer to ISO certification.
