LOUISVILLE, CO – June 16, 2022 

Safety Hive, LLC., a safety technology solution, and software provider, will be exhibiting at the ASSP  Safety 2022 (American Society for Safety Professionals Conference), the number one facility safety event June 27-29, 2022, in Chicago, IL. Safety Hive will be displaying the newest versions of their connected technology solutions geared to enhance safety programs and empower employees with digital tools for audits, inspections, hazards, lockout, training, and more. 

As the workforce becomes increasingly distributed and mobile, Safety Hive software solutions equip workers with a quick way to access workplace safety services, educate them on their tasks, reduce inspection and audit times, and overall reduce facility downtime. The applications are built to improve operational efficiency, allow facility management teams to plan ahead, and empower workers to make their workplace safer and more productive. 

Highlighted at this year’s Safety 2022 conference is Safety Hive’s application Hive Inspect & Audit Pro built to modernize and simplify inspections and audits. Hive Inspect & Audit Pro aims to increase productivity and allows users to create quickly, assign, and track audits and inspections with a simple reporting process giving facility professionals real-time visibility. 

Safety Hive encourages workplace safety professionals to visit Safety Hive at booth #1740 during the show.

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Safety Hive Inspires Pulp & Paper Safety Association with Digital Solutions at PPSA

BROOMFIELD, CO – May 31,2022

Safety Hive with Martin Technical, Inc., are leading subject matter experts in providing industrial plants and facilities with simplified safety solutions, both companies are participating as member exhibitors at the 2022 PPSA conference in Ponte Vedra, FL June 12-15th. Safety Hive and Martin Technical are located in Broomfield, Colorado, and will showcase the highly sought-after digital workplace safety solutions with software provider Safety Hive, to empower facility management professionals, and their employees, to stay at the forefront of an evolving and challenging world using technology.

As the workforce becomes increasingly distributed and mobile, Safety Hive equips workers with quick access to workplace safety services, educates them on their tasks, and reduces errors, incidents, inspection and audit times, and overall facility downtime. Martin Technical subject matter experts along with Safety Hive’s software solutions will now be able to offer their clients a full circle, turnkey solution all under one roof enhancing their mission of making the complex simple. This will enable facilities to improve their safety culture, operational efficiency, facility management forecasting, and help motivate workers to make their workplace safer and more productive.

“Innovation is at the core of the success of Safety Hive and Martin Technical and has been the driving force for our successes over the past 20 years. Consistently pushing the limits of what we do, how we do it, and what we can do to help support our customers in their day-to-day world to keep workers safe and institutions in compliance. Safety Hive is the next big thing from Martin Technical and it is set to "change the game" on how data, compliance, process, procedure and most importantly, worker safety, come together in a single platform. This will become the Standard for Safety Management Systems in the US and around the world.” says Chief Operating Officer, Donny Snyder.

Safety Hive and Martin Technical will be located at booth #40 and are inviting all workplace safety professionals to stop by and learn more about the most innovative services in the industry.

Register with: https://ppsaconference.org/

About Safety Hive

Safety Hive is a Safety Technology Solution and Software Provider that digitizes and automates safety to predict and prevent workplace safety incidents through technology and data.

About Martin Technical

Martin Technical is a leading provider of practical safety and efficiency services that make industrial plants and facilities better, safer, and more efficient. Our experts can help simplify the complex by applying real-world solutions for lockout tagout, arc flash, electrical safety, risk assessments, OSHA services, training, machine safety, and safety consulting.

To learn more, please visit https://martechnical.com/, https://safetyhive.com/, call +1 866-234-6890, or email Sales@MarTechnical.com.

To request Press Kits, please email Marketing@MarTechnical.com.

Developing apps is my gig. I love making web and mobile tools that enhance a person’s quality of life. When I was asked to develop a series of apps for a company called Safety Hive, I quickly said yes because not only could I do what I love, but I could save people’s lives while I did it!  When I first took on this challenge, I thought it would be like any other app developing project. Make a clean, streamlined look and add a ton of features that make your app better than the competitor. Simple, right?

Wrong.

The deeper I got into the development of the Safety Hive software the more I realized that building this software has to go way beyond just building an app to perform a simple function and spitting out a report.

Let me give you a 30,000 foot view of what I’m talking about:

This software has to be customizable. 

Every customer has a unique safety program that’s built around guidelines of compliancy, traditionalism and personalization. For instance:

1. Every company needs to be able to capture and report hazards. (This relates to compliancy.)
2. The way we have been doing the required reporting, is by filling out a form that some guy named Bob made ten years ago (This deals with traditionalism)
3. The form will record what we need and provide the necessary information to our Maintenance, Legal and Human Resource counterparts. (This is where personalization comes in)

Although these three areas seem common, they can be robust and complicated because they must align with the company’s policies, methodology of doing work and how they want to instill safety culture. No two safety programs are alike, so the software needs to easily adapt to each company’s requirements, yet a lot of safety software on the market is fixed with barely any customization abilities.

This software needs to be simple and functional for every worker, not just those who are tech-savvy.

Technology has given us so much opportunity to enhance a company’s safety culture, reduce time-wasting procedures and improve visibility for safety.  Most importantly, it empowers the every day worker to be safe without having to be constantly monitored by a supervisor.  

However, most software developers have missed the mark when it comes to safety software. Safety apps should be designed with the average safety professional in mind.  They should be so easy to use that every worker, no matter their technological abilities, can pick it up and use it on an every day basis, which will, in turn, drive the safety culture of their company.

This software must attach to physical assets to create a broader and more streamlined analysis. 

If I fill out a form, digital or paper, what does that form record? The answer… a pile of forms that give you a very small glimpse of what is really going on.  Because of this small percentage of accuracy, it is difficult to see and understand the full picture of what is happening within a company, which prevents opportunities to accurately predict incidents.

Imagine having a hazard or inspection report attach to a physical element like a piece of machinery, a tool or even a person. Would you have more success with your investigation?  Could it give you more confidence in determining the source of a hazard and its probability of creating an incident?

What if the person is mis-using the tool, or the tool isn’t the right tool for the job?  Can a form give you that information over the course of time?

Analysis is crucial to the process of removing risk and preventing incidents from occurring.  Having your software connect to a database of assets like machines, tools, people and even areas of a location is essential to a safety management software.

In Conclusion…

In the end, I have found that off-the-shelf software just doesn’t work very well in every situation at every company. As you are choosing a safety software, consider how that software is going to support the essentials of your safety program and most importantly, understand the ever growing demands of mitigating risk and predicting incidents from occurring. 

I have found that as a developer, it is my job to create a software that is simple and functional for the worker.  Safety can’t just happen sitting at a desk in front of a pile of forms, it has to be placed in the hands of each worker in the field, on the dock or on the plant floor.  

Tristan Jackson is a Safety Technology & Software Program Manager at Safety Hive

Staggering statistics regarding workplace injuries and deaths never cease to astonish me.  On one hand, I might think, “People are just being stupid,” like those people at the zoo who think they should jump into a lion habitat to take a selfie.  But on the other hand, there might be more to these statistics than just dumb people doing dumb things.  Maybe the equipment isn’t kept up the correct way, and accidents are happening even though people are following all the safety protocols.  Maybe people aren’t being informed of the dangers that relate to their jobs, but what I think it really boils down to is that, for many companies, safety procedures are still operating in the stone age.  I mean, let’s be real, lists stapled to bulletin boards are just not an effective way of tracking the complicated world of workplace safety programs.

Regardless of the reason, facilities continue to lack rigor in identifying risks and checking worker training and compliance….WHY???  Do they seriously not care people are dying at a rapid rate or is the task of safety training, inspection and awareness just too daunting of a task, and managers (like any humans) feel too overwhelmed to try to take on this gaping hole in their operations? They want to save lives, but really don’t know how, so they sit, frozen, doing nothing.  As a result of many companies’ lack of enthusiasm for safety awareness and protocols, not only are they constantly having to replace deceased or injured employees, but many companies face legal and financial consequences, along with a damaged reputation.

I recently read in a case study, originally posted here, that an elevator technician conducting weekly maintenance on a moving walkway at a Montreal university never returned home from his job. After his arm was caught between the cylinder and the walkway belt, it tore from his body and the worker died.  An investigation report, released by the Committee on Standards, Equity, Health and Safety at Work (CNESST), reveals that the university and owner had not visited the mechanical room to identify hazards associated with the maintenance job and didn’t ensure effective controls were in place to safeguard workers performing maintenance on the walkway belt. The owner generally knew that a hazard would be present with this type of maintenance work, but didn’t ensure proper guarding of moving parts or publish a procedure on de-energizing equipment.

What could have been done to prevent such a tragedy?  Obviously reading a tragic story like this one or seeing staggering statistics might sober a facilities manager’s mood, but the reality is that safety management and awareness is a huge undertaking, kind of like sitting down at a table and realizing that you have to eat an entire elephant in one sitting. Most managers don’t even know where to start.  It takes some serious strategy to figure out how to raise awareness, while at the same time implementing training programs and keeping up with required inspections on so many different pieces of equipment. 

A missing checkmark in a comprehensive safety job analysis would have shown that the worker in Montreal wasn’t trained in de-energizing equipment. Improper lighting, no cell reception in the basement, a missing safety guard removed years before and no button to slow or stall the escalator were all hazards that played a role in that accident, but were not proactively identified.  All of this could have been prevented if the university safety management would have implemented a lockout program with written procedures or mobile safety management apps to monitor all the things that had gone wrong in that situation.

It’s an elephant to eat, but the road to a strong safety management program is taking one bite at a time.

Elaina J - Safety Pro Buzz staff contributor