As a Health and Safety manager, your responsibilities spring from the twin tasks of regulatory and operational oversight. Making sure that employees are safe is a mix of understanding the legislative requirements that you are working under, and the day-to-day realities of an environment where risk is an ever-present factor. Whether your organisation employs people to supply services in suburban streets, or lone workers in remote locations far from help, it’s your position in the management team to anticipate and reduce those risks.

In our work with hundreds of organisations, Smartrak has seen the challenges that Health and Safety Managers face in ensuring safer working practices and environments, and through those partnerships has developed solutions that address both regulatory requirement and workplace reality.

Achieving this depends on a comprehensive solution that includes the application of the right technology and processes, and the development of a safer working culture, so that co-workers share the responsibility for keeping each other safe.

Having access to data that illustrates issues such as unsafe driving highlights the problem and supports standards setting, so that all of your organisation’s drivers understand that they have a personal responsibility to develop safer driving habits. Doing this helps to generate the changes in attitude that support sustainable and far-reaching safety benefits, and the evidence to bring about this change of mind-set can only be collected through vehicle tracking; it’s the next best thing to you being in the passenger seat alongside each driver.

The same is true for lone workers when they are away from the vehicle. Solutions that provide personal assurance through sophisticated alert and duress technologies become the virtual scheduler or team manager that’s always with them. When a lone worker has a fall on a lonely track far from base, or an angry member of the public is venting their frustration, it’s the dependability of a communications and alert solution that will close that gap between manager and worker.

Through initiatives like these, Smartrak helps you to build an encompassing health and safety solution the enrols everyone in a safer operational culture. These are solutions that support analysis, mentoring and applicable safety procedures that empower every employee with the tools and knowledge to be a safer workplace champion. An integrated Health and Safety solution that takes into account culture as well as legislation is the only way to ensure wisdom-sharing that reaches beyond your office.