WorkplaceAware is a great tool for eliminating hazards in the workplace. Our employees use it 24/7 and it’s helped us avoid situations in which someone could’ve been hurt. Since July 2015, we’ve resolved 1,400 safety concerns, most of them submitted by our employees through WorkplaceAware. We’ve never seen anything like the app. It’s one of the best things to happen in manufacturing safety in 15 years.

WorkplaceAware has created an avenue to quickly report identified safety issues while tracking and creating accountability to resolve them. WorkplaceAware has allowed the leaders at General Cable to really drill down and identify what the top issues are thanks to our ability to customize the app with questions/checklists that the user must follow to ensure all appropriate information is relayed correctly the first time! WorkplaceAware has allowed General Cable to see at an instant where the highest potential is for a workplace injury and fix it before it causes harm.

As an auditing tool, WorkplaceAware satisfies some regulatory mandates we have. The app documents the time and date an issue was reported and handled, which serves as proof of third-party audits. We’re training our supervisors to use it to take pictures of what OSHA inspectors take pictures of and take another when an action item is complete. We established 30 to 40 categories in our WorkplaceAware system, and OSHA is one of them.