WHS in Construction
The Construction industry is one of the biggest industries in Australia and faces major challenges to become more efficient. Construction clients using the BlinkMobile platform range from companies focused on residential home building to large construction and engineering firms serving the mining & infrastructure sectors.
The Construction industry is one of the biggest industries in Australia and faces major challenges to become more efficient. Construction clients using the BlinkMobile platform range from companies focused on residential home building to large construction and engineering firms serving the mining & infrastructure sectors.
Builders have developed apps based on the BlinkMobile platform to assist site foremen ensure that orders for missing, broken or incorrect components are ordered from the mandated supplier and at the negotiated price. This maintains a real-time record of expense over-runs, reduces costs and provides better visibility of the actual profitability of each project. Other apps assist customer service representatives record issues and fast track any remedial work at the time a new home is handed over to the purchasers.
The major needs and business issues identified by engineering constructions firms are very different. They revolve around WHS (Work Health Safety) issues. How to minimise them and how to report on such issues if they do occur?. The apps cover such broad areas as site inspections, ‘report a problem’, safe work practices and safety procedures as well as access to the core HR system. Offline operation is vitally important to such organisations as much of their work is in remote locations.
Enterprise mobility solutions can add real value to the entire life cycle of the construction project. During any project, project managers, architects, and engineers are responsible for the success of the project. They will be running multiple projects simultaneously and spending their time on construction sites, in the office or travelling. With the help of Enterprise Apps on mobile devices, they can actively manage these processes, employees, and information involved in their projects from any location. Construction companies also often have multiple offices and sites at different places that need to be connected and mobile technology is the only efficient way to do this.
Enterprise Mobility solutions have become very important for those organisations in the construction industry to stay competitive but the issue in the past has been the cost and the time to deployment . This has been overcome with the rapid development time cycles using products like the BlinkMobile platform which has reduced the development cycle of bespoke apps from many months to a matter of weeks. In the construction industry, any integrated solution that increases productivity on the jobsites or in the back office, improves the profit margin