Safety is fundamental to the construction industry. Hazards and incidents at construction sites cost companies human life, productivity and efficiency. Let’s look at the need for inspections, how the industry currently manages inspections & safety and how it can do better with digital technologies.
The Need for Construction Inspection
Inspections happen at several construction project phases to ensure all compliance and safety requirements (e.g., OSHA) are met. These inspections help unveil dangerous situations at construction sites, potential hazards and help warn workers and companies of things that could go wrong.
Potentially, inspections allow companies to ensure the safety of their employees. The need for construction inspection from a safety standpoint is of critical importance. There is an uncompromised need to ensure these inspections happen more timely and efficiently. That’s where digital comes in.
How Can Digital Simplify Construction Inspection and Reporting
Optimize workforce coordination – Construction projects involve several entities from the vehicle fleet to the workforce, contractors, partners, suppliers and clients. All these entities need to be aligned in real-time to collaborate efficiently. Having a digital work scheduler gives upfront information on the availability of the crew to all the stakeholders. When construction projects have last-minute changes, a digital solution can make workforce coordination exceptionally effortless compared to traditional workforce management practices.
Hassle-free compliance – Paper-based inspection processes can be highly troublesome, slow and error-prone, leading to maintenance and compliance issues. When site managers leverage digital solutions to ensure compliance and solve repairs and replacements quickly, they can foresee litigation risks and compliance failures and take the necessary steps to prevent them. Digital solutions with smart forms eliminate the need for paper and make it easier to capture and manage data, further easing compliance with digital evidence.
Easy reporting and documentation – Filling out reports and project checklists can be tedious for construction managers. Automation of these mundane jobs with digital construction project management solutions that standardize forms and checklists and allow form-filling on mobile devices can simplify the process and save time. Also, managers can assign forms and checklists to the right team members for smooth collaboration.
Integrate safety – Digital solutions can make it easier to ingrain safety into construction management by streamlining communication about potentially hazardous sites, allowing intelligent data analysis, accelerating documentation, enabling easier stakeholder approvals and better accessibility of information through a centralized structure. Both common and rare construction defects can be predicted and prevented with a digital solution.
Predictive analytics and insights – It’s no longer enough to process analytics on a construction site after an incident occurs. Companies need a proactive approach to predict and bypass such incidents. By gathering, monitoring and analyzing historical data, hazardous situations can be predicted and avoided. Companies need stringent reporting and tracking of job sites, incidents, and their workforce to collect this data, which is impossible to achieve with traditional reporting and data management systems.
Why FieldOn
FieldOn offers the specific features you need to perform digital construction inspections, facilitating efficient inspections.
Enhanced digital data collection and analysis – Collect and capture data digitally from various touchpoints, and create a single source of truth across your construction company.
Easy integration – Built-in integration services in FieldOn ensure that your data can be easily shared into other enterprise software for quicker decision making and streamlined operations.
Smart digital forms and checklists – Replace paper-based manual forms and checklists with digital ones that are easy to manage, accessible and available on all devices.
Contact us to revolutionize your construction inspections today.