The platform was highlighted among the best tools to keep employees safe and compliant

The first step in becoming a safety leader in any industry is shifting away from paper and spreadsheet-based systems. Effective safety improvements can only be made with the speed, reliability, and analysis that only digital solutions can provide. Just ask yourself this, how would you manage if one of your processes fails or gets delayed? If you had a slight hesitation, then it’s probably a good idea to digitise your health and safety processes.

Capptions Direct as a platform for managing compliance to safety and related standards such as VCA, AEO, ISO9001 and ISO45001

In our recent study “State of Safety Management 2020: 10 Safety Challenges You Need To Know”, almost 70% of EHS managers said that they recognize involving their team in continuous safety improvements. The trouble is, the quest to increase safety performance can truly seem like a Holy Grail to EHS leaders — the ultimate reward that nobody has managed to gain. 

Like most organisations, you’ve probably developed your own version of the plan-do-check-act cycle through the years and now you’re looking for a way to digitise it. Certainly, there should be EHS software that does what you need it to do, right?  

Ardagh, as a global entity, has had a Lean Six Sigma program in place for the past 21 years. Among this, a 5S deployment which involves monthly audits. The average time that they were spending on these audits was at least 10 people per plant spending 2-3 hours to go through all the audits. Because it was mainly Excel-based, it was not standardised across the plants or regions, let alone worldwide. People were going with just a printout of the Excel, walking around the plants while taking pictures with their camera and making notes, then going back to their desks and spending hours to document what they’d found. Let’s do the math. 10 people x 56 plants x 2,5 hours x 12 months = 16.800 hours per year.

Waste and recycling sector workers are at high risk of injury or fatality while at work, according to safety data.

Every year, many injuries and fatalities occur in packaging warehouses across the world. In the US, the Occupational Safety and