Is your desk piled high with paperwork? Are you trying to find the audit report you completed last month? Are you looking for last year’s accident investigation report? Do you know which employees need forklift training next month? Ranes can help you stay on top of all of these challenges and more.

There’s nothing worse than getting buried in company paperwork. Paper records are costly, time-consuming, unorganized, and inefficient for safety managers, operators, and supervisors. Paper is the least effective way of recording inspections, tracking audit finding and corrections, maintaining a safety training schedule, and staying on top of complicated training requirements. Safety professional can’t afford to fall behind on any of these requirements that could result in a serious accident or even a fatality. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) reported that there were 4,764 workplace fatalities and over 1 million accidents in 2020 that resulted in workers missing time away from work. Don’t let one of your employees become a statistic! (Source: https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/case/cd_r70_2020.htm )

Checklists

One way to streamline safety oversight is the use of checklist. Checklists are helpful tools that professionals can use to conduct safety inspections, investigate accidents, and improve overall safety. Checklists can be developed using the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) standards as a guide. OSHA even provides sample checklist for various topics including forklift inspections 

Checklists can be developed using the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) standards as a guide. OSHA even provides sample checklist for various topics including forklift inspections.

Checklists can help us to identify potential risks, such as equipment failures or chemical exposures and meet periodic maintenance timelines.

Safety checklists are common in industries like construction, manufacturing and mining that face occupational hazards daily. Safety officers or other designated employees conduct inspections on a regular basis using a checklist with standardized items for their specific industry. For instance, a construction safety officer may perform an inspection of a jobsite using a checklist customized to confirm employees are wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), are working safely at heights, and are using tools and other equipment in a safe manner. Using safety checklists to ensure that both employers and employees are complying with safety standards can help promote workplace productivity, health and safety.

Below are some examples of checklists used in safety and some of the components of each type of checklist.

Construction Jobsite Inspection Checklist

This will contain a complete list of safety items that should be maintained at a typical construction jobsite. Common items include:

• Recordkeeping
• PPE
• Material handling
• Tool usage, inspections, and maintenance
• Fall protection
• Mobile equipment
• Stairways and ladders
• Scaffolding

Housekeeping Safety Checklist

This will contain a list of housekeeping items that should be inspected to ensure the safety of your personnel. Common items include:

• Emergency exits
• Eye wash and shower stations
• Handwashing or hand sanitizer stations
• Walkway clearance
• Proper storage of chemicals and flammable substances

PPE Inspection Checklist

OSHA’s personal protective equipment regulation (1910.132) requires that employers provide workers with appropriate PPE and that workers are trained, inspecting and wearing PPE. So a comprehensive PPE checklist is important to ensure you are meeting OSHA’s expectations. The PPE safety inspection checklist contains items that relate to workplace compliance related to providing, maintaining, and using PPE that can protect employees from occupational hazards. These are typically used in conjunction with other safety checklists. These are some examples of the items found on a PPE inspection checklist.

• Eye protection
• Respiratory protection
• Noise levels and hearing protection
• Medical monitoring
• Fall protection
• Foot protection
• Protective clothing

We have looked at how checklists and forms can help you with your health and safety responsibilities. What better way to use and organize these checklists and forms than in an automated format on your phone or tablet?

This is where Ranes can help. With Ranes you will have the ability to create custom forms and checklists specific to your company and your needs that will help you to save time and money.

A subscription to the Ranes app allows you to create a workflow that starts the day with employees clocking in and verifying they have the correct PPE using a checklist. You can also broadcast information like updates to schedules, safety messages or update requirements. The app allows you to easily assign, and collect safety checklists, meetings, and other documentation. Employees can complete forms for daily duties right on their phones, even without access to the internet. They can also report incidents and accidents in a timely manner. All safety forms and checklist can be easily organized and reported in the administrator’s portal for ease of access for safety audits and any follow-up requirements. You’ll know who has completed actions and can easily send a reminder to those that haven’t. 

Ranes can also help with your training needs. The app can deliver training directly to employee’s devices, allowing them to learn anytime, anywhere. And training and certifications can be tracked, and notifications sent when it’s time for renewal. Courses are customizable and can be delivered via video, multimedia presentations, quizzes, file downloads, virtual webinars, and completion certifications. The sky is the limit!

It gets even better… Ranes’s document library allows you to store, collect, curate, and assign documents to members of your team. This helps you to organize your critical business information and disseminate it to your team. The library provides for learning, training, compliance, company forms, and more. And the user can customize exactly what is shared and with whom.

Ranes’s higher-tiered plan comes with pre-loaded forms and checklists to help you adhere to all the industry standards required and will help save you the time it takes to create those sometimes tedious forms and checklists yourself.

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