Webinar explores how to get biggest benefits from digital safety tools

Digital systems are offering new tools to identify, address and prevent safety issues on construction sites.

At BC&E’s “New Realities of Construction: Digital Safety Integration” webinar in February, Dusty Egbert, Vice President of Safety, Scaffold Resource; Justin Heddinger, Vice President, Diversified Safety Services; Thomas Koch, Vice President of Operations, Plano-Coudon Construction; and moderator Beth Cohen, Senior Claims Advocate, Mid-Atlantic Region, HMS Insurance Associates discussed some best practices and major benefits of utilizing digital safety systems.

• Integrating digital safety tools into the daily work of all relevant individuals is critical to the tools’ effectiveness but also readily achievable. Many safety software packages can interact with mainstream construction management programs, such as ProCore, and can be accessed through computers, tablets or cell phone apps. 

• Software is only effective if it is regularly and fully used. Make sure your digital safety system is easy and quick to use, track usage to make sure superintendents and others are completing required reports, and customize notifications to ensure that you are receiving all pertinent information but not information overload.

• The benefits of digital safety systems are myriad: faster reporting and widespread notification of safety issues, maintaining and highlighting “open items” on the system for unresolved issues, tracking safety trends across multiple job sites, and identifying potential safety issues and needs on future projects. Overall, they can result in better safety performance, lower insurance costs and smoother, more productive projects.

For the full webinar, visit the BC&E Youtube Channel.