Top 20 Safety Management Tools

So many tools, so little time. In this blog post, we briefly cover the top 20 safety management tools offered by myosh to see how they each address specific aspects of safety management, ensuring comprehensive coverage of all potential hazards and compliance needs.

Whether you're a safety professional or a business leader, understanding these tools can empower you to start transforming and streamlining your workplace safety systems.

1. Action Management

Action Management Software is an integral part of health and safety management systems. It not only allows for planning, assigning, and reviewing staff actions and activities, but also features automated reminders, an audit log of changes, and the ability to create custom reports. This tool is essential for following the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle of continuous improvement, critical for adhering to ISO Standards.

2. Incident Reporting

This module is more than just a reporting tool; it offers a structured, risk-based investigation process, including email-driven sign-off and authorisation. Incident Reporting in myosh allows for detailed classification and investigation of incidents, ensuring a comprehensive understanding and prevention of future occurrences.

3. Risk Hazard Management

The module takes users through a proactive, four-step process of hazard identification, risk assessment, control, and review. It encourages a reporting culture, helping users to log hazards, identify control strategies, and track risk ratings. Integration with other modules enhances its effectiveness in risk reduction.

4. Critical Control Management (CCM)

The myosh CCM module focuses on reducing incidents by automating the critical control management process. It integrates regular workplace inspections with critical control verification, ensuring the effectiveness and enforcement of hazard management controls.

5. The Digital Bow-Tie

This innovative tool comes with with CCM module and visualises the relationship between risks, consequences, and controls. It helps in understanding and communicating the impact of risk management strategies. The Digital Bow-Tie connects different myosh modules, displaying how actions, hazards, and controls interlink. This visual representation aids in identifying potential weak points and enhancing the overall safety strategy. It's particularly useful for high-level management and safety professionals for strategic planning and risk communication.

6. Inspections

Offers dynamic, digital inspections, including image integration, notifications, conditional logic, and various other features like multi-language capabilities, geolocation, and offline functionality. It's designed for total visibility and reliable audits.

7. Smart Inspections™

Elevates regular inspections by automating control verification and integrating critical processes. It includes features like notifications based on inspector responses, conditional logic, and integration with business intelligence tools.

8. Risk Assessment

Facilitates risk identification, assessment, and tracking. This tool builds a library of your commonly known hazards and is integrated with documentation modules and equipment registers.

9. Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS)

Provides guidance and consistent processes for breaking down tasks to identify hazards, risks, and controls. It's integrated with the Hazard Management module and allows for the creation of hazards and corrective actions for identified risks.

10. Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)

Assists in outlining safe task execution and identifying workplace hazards. It's integrated with action management to ensure follow-up of corrective and preventative actions.

11. Job Safety Observations

Aims to observe and correct unsafe acts or conditions, focusing on reinforcing safe work practices. It includes configurable reports and workflows, allowing for detailed documentation and analysis of observations. The integration with Action Management ensures follow-through of timely corrective actions.

12. Injury Management

Expands upon managing workers' compensation and injury-related documentation. It includes linking injury incidents to management documents, creating and tracking return-to-work programs, and providing detailed management reports on claims and employee recovery.

13. Health Management

This module involves monitoring health records and testing requirements, crucial for managing risks in the workplace. It features automated reminders for retesting, integrates with payroll, HR, or ERP systems, and includes comprehensive health record-keeping capabilities.

14. Non-Conformance

Addresses issues against ISO standards with a structured investigation process. This module includes logging details and classifying non-conformances, assigning corrective actions, and integrating with the Action Management module for a complete non-conformance handling workflow.

15. Document Control

Ensures control over document editing, updating, and revision, maintaining accuracy across the organisation. It features capabilities like email notifications when documents change and integration with payroll, HR, or ERP systems for seamless document management.

16. Equipment Registers

Manages various equipment types, ensuring timely re-testing and maintenance. This module includes registers for electrical equipment, first aid, breathing apparatus, and more, with automated alerts for re-testing and maintenance schedules.

17. Chemical Registers

Lists hazardous chemicals with accompanying Safety Data Sheets (SDS), assisting in risk assessments and compliance with GHS guidelines. It includes functionalities like SDS upload and expiry tracking, risk assessments for chemicals, and detailed chemical usage and storage records.

18. Training Management

Manages training requirements, scheduling, and record-keeping, including integration with Online Learning and Contractor Management. Features include training needs analysis, alerts for training renewal, and a comprehensive training matrix for organisational overview.

19. Online Learning

Enables the creation and tracking of online courses and inductions. It integrates with the Training Management module, offering functionalities like customisable course creation, automated certificates and notifications, and tracking of training completions.

20. Viking Analytics

Provides data insights and visualisations focusing on risk assurance and predictive analytics. It quickly adapts to various needs, and features configurable charts for comparing leading and lagging indicators, demonstrating improvement over time.

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But wait, there’s more

Over the 20 years that we have served the industry, we here at myosh have continuously expanded and refined the suite of modules and their subcomponents, available with our safety management system. How? Primary thanks to incredible partners and customers, from whom we have learned over the years.

Our Viking Platform is fundamentally constructed to be a configurable system, which has allowed our customers to create hundreds of variants of our modules and even invent dozens more from scratch, on top of that. We learn from the safety managers who use our product, in order to improve the system, distilling the best ideas and procedures to upgrade the utility for all our users. To see what other pre-configure modules we have, take a look at our full list, or talk to us about creating your own custom modules.