At the centre of SafeWorkPro is an aim to make Australian construction businesses more competitive. We strive to reduce the waste of resources that comes with risk assessments, in a way that will not compromise the safety of employees. As many construction businesses would know, compliance with the Work Health and Safety Act can be challenging, especially when facing the demands of never ending paperwork and administration. Although tried and tested, we believe the paper-based process is obsolete and does not deliver the best possible outcome in terms of safety and productivity. The risk assessment process is unnecessarily long and key safety information is not being delivered to workers when they need it most. So we decided to innovate and the result was a practical, easy to use tool that is available on any smartphone or tablet device.

Our experience working with Cole Contracting, an electrical contracting company based in Brisbane, Australia, instilled within us a high value of safety culture. We found that safe work practices and high productivity are not necessarily contradictory. In turn our tool places an emphasis on getting workers away from paperwork and back on the job quickly. By streamlining the paperwork involved with risk assessment and safe work method statements (SWMS) into digital copies, SafeWorkPro drastically improves productivity. There’s less time spent ticking boxes and filling out forms, and more time spent on the job.

But a quick risk assessment process is useless if it compromises the well-being of workers. So SafeWorkPro helped make 140 SWMS accessible via an easy to use mobile tool. The depth and detail of SafeWorkPro comes from the 17 years experience of Cole Contracting who, using our tool, have completed 964 risk assessments, identified 370 job steps and associated all of those with one of our 140 detailed SWMS. Our method has been successfully tried and tested, all without any major safety incidences – a record we are extremely proud of. Regardless of the numbers, the core motivation for our work is to keep you safe on site and competitive in business.