Some of the Best Safety Apps
Nowadays there are apps for just about everything, and while some of them are nothing more than fancy advertisements or a quick way for the developer to make lots of money, there are a lot of apps out there that are really useful in everyday life, including improving everyday safety. Below describes a few outstanding safety apps that feature must-have tools for every safety professional…
If you’re working in an industry that requires manual lifting of heavy boxes, the safe lifting calculator is a useful app to have. The app indicates where your lift begins, estimates the number of lifts per minute and the hours of lifting per day, and then calculates the maximum safe lifting weight accordingly, to help to avoid any injuries from over-exerting yourself. The app is free and easy to use as it only takes 10-15 seconds to make a lifting calculation. What is more, you can guarantee an accurate calculation because it is based on the NIOSH lifting equation. The app is ideal for any employees and supervisors where manual lifting is required.
The asbestos inspection app is free and can help anyone who is concerned about the presence of asbestos in a building. The app is simple to use as it just requires you to take a picture of the suspected asbestos area and then send it on to one of the specialists who created the app. They will then examine the photo and get back to you with a professional recommendation. However, while this app is helpful for the initial diagnosis of asbestos, it is a legal requirement to invest in asbestos awareness training if you are likely to disturb asbestos as it can be very damaging and sometimes fatal to your health.
Risk assessments in the work place are essential and could potentially save the life of someone. The Risk Assessor Lite app makes creating a risk assessment much easier because it produces the risk assessment report for you. All that is required from you is to take a photos of the area with potential threats and drag and drop the pre-loaded risks over the photo. Then you have to select the most relevant control measure, the worst case outcome and the likelihood and then it’s complete. So you will no longer need to produce lots of paperwork yourself, as a fully personalised PDF Risk Assessment report is created.
American Red Cross First Aid app
There are plenty of first aid apps available but it is difficult to find one that actually fulfils its purpose. However the first aid app created by American Red Cross successfully includes expert advice for everyday emergencies so that you can be prepared for any occasion that life may bring in the workplace. The app is media rich making it an engaging and easy to understand – for example it features videos, quizzes as well as step by step guides clearly informing you what to do if a particular situation should arise. Furthermore, the app is free so the safety of you and your employees doesn’t come with a price tag.
So now that you’ve read about some of the best safety apps that are around at the moment, test some of them out by downloading them to your smartphone and see how it can help to improve the safety in your workplace.
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