In the UK, approximately 2,315 workers experienced workplace injuries every working day of last year—a staggering reminder of the importance of health and safety compliance in the workplace. In a world where work environments are rapidly evolving, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance is not just a necessity but a responsibility. It safeguards employees, boosts productivity and reduces liability. Addressing these challenges head-on and leading the way, Heresafe—formerly Verature—provides powerful tools to identify, assess and mitigate risks effectively.
Verature’s recent rebrand marks a new and exciting chapter in the company’s mission to revolutionise workplace safety. By starting with safer supply chains and contractors, Heresafe aims to create a safety culture that permeates every corner of the workplace. Contractors, frequently engaged in high-risk environments and tasks, are disproportionately impacted by workplace incidents. Along with a rapidly expanding community of users, Heresafe seeks to address this critical gap in workplace safety, one contractor at a time.
Workforce Certification, Induction & Training Compliance
Ensuring that all contractors, their workers and any sub-contractors are properly certified and trained is essential for maintaining a safe and compliant workplace. Heresafe offers robust features to manage certifications and training schedules, reducing the risk of non-compliance.
Stay Ahead of Compliance Risks
Heresafe’s software tracks and manages worker certifications, ensuring that all employees are up-to-date with their required competencies and training. Automated alerts and reminders sent directly to suppliers or contractors about expiring certifications help avoid compliance lapses. They shift the responsibility and administrative effort onto the supplier, ensuring that workers stay properly qualified to carry out their duties safely.
Streamline Training and Inductions
The platform also manages training and induction schedules, ensuring that all employees maintain an updated site safety induction, have acknowledged site-specific briefings and have in-date, valid and adequate training. This includes dashboard tracking of completion/failed induction assessment rates. Heresafe automates these processes, offering embedded inductions with multiple-choice assessments, acknowledgements featuring digital signatures and photographs. This approach helps organisations maintain high safety and compliance standards through a robust and efficient induction process.
Permit-to-Work, Authority to Work & Site Access
Permit-to-work systems are crucial for managing high-risk activities and ensuring that all necessary precautions are taken. Heresafe’s digital permits-to-work, Authority to Work (AtW) and Site Access systems enhance safety and compliance through several key features.
Simplify High-Risk Permit Management
Heresafe offers digital permits that streamline the permit-to-work process. These permits include digital signatures, checks and approvals, ensuring that all stages of the permit process are followed correctly. This reduces the risk of human error and ensures that high-risk activities are managed safely.
Key Permit Features:
- Fully Custom Templates: Enabling a digital version of an existing preferred template that fits your organisation/industry standard.
- Permit Notifications: Notify key groups and the permit issuer when a permit is issued, accepted or returned.
- Permitting Permissions: Assign ‘Issuer’ permissions by permit type.
- Schedule Permit Alerts: create a schedule of alerts to prompt the Permit Issuer to check on high-risk activities.
- Permit Dashboard: Live status updates by permit type.
- Copy Permits: Copy a permit for re-issue where daily permits are required.
- Permit Mapping: View your permits on a digital mapping tool.
- Permit handover and Audit Log: View an audit trail of the permit through its various stages and keep track of where a permit has been handed over to another Permit Issuer.
- Permit Search, Retrieval, Export & Print: Query and export your permit log, send a permit to print to maintain paper copies where needed.
These features ensure robust and auditable permit management, promoting a culture of safety and compliance.
Ensure Safer Worksite Access
Heresafe’s Authority to Work and Site Access functions enhance workplace safety by displaying readiness-to-work and requirements-met dashboarding, enforcing RAMS reviews, approval workflows and regulating approvals to access restricted areas. The platform includes built-in workflows and logic that prevent cutting corners. It ensures that only authorised personnel who meet all requirements defined by the organisation/PM/host/sponsor can check in, reducing the likelihood of accidents and ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
Key Authority to Work and Site Access Features:
- Project/Authority to Work Dashboarding: Quickly spot missing requirements before approving work or granting access.
- External Supplier Portal: Allows your suppliers and contractors to manage worker and document submissions directly.
- Review Workflow: Streamlined acceptance, rejection or referral of submissions, with Heresafe chasing up on rejected items.
- Expected On-Site and On-Site Now Reporting: Know who is expected, where, when, why and by whom, and who is signed in across your locations.
- Self-service Check-Ins/Out with QR and Geo-Tagging Technology: Gain real-time visibility over even remote workers with lat/long location of Check-Ins/Outs.
- Visit Questions: Tailor Check-In/Out questions to ensure workplace safety and risk identification.
- Digital Badges: Easily challenge and inspect induction status, on-site status and RAMS by scanning badges for real-time updates.
These tools work together to manage access, ensure qualifications and maintain high safety standards on worksites.
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Real-world Impact & ROI of Workplace Safety and Compliance systems
Heresafe shares recent success stories from various industries and clients (University of York, Goodwood, Natural History Museum, Knauf Insulation, Stepan & Sibelco, to name a few) that have benefited from adopting their software.
A higher education client found that Heresafe resulted in an 81.25% reduction in time spent onboarding and pre-qualifying contractors.
Alongside a 98% happiness score for their skilled Support team, feedback for Heresafe includes:
“The system’s reporting capability provides increased visibility and control of all contractor visits across our multiple sites, ensuring contractors are working safely, with all work and visits approved and recorded.”
“The Heresafe system is making it easy to ensure we are remaining accountable for the safety of our contractors when on-site”
Real-world examples from education, health, food manufacturing, events/recreation/arts, mining, logistics, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, showcase the transformative impact of these solutions on workplace safety, while also highlighting potential ROI’s for the HSEQ, Property and Engineering teams adopting them.
The Future of Workplace Safety Technology
Integrating advanced compliance software like Heresafe into workplace safety protocols is essential for maintaining a safe and compliant work environment. The future of health and safety compliance is bright, with innovative solutions like Heresafe leading the way. As we look ahead, the continued evolution of these technologies promises even greater advancements in workplace safety and compliance.
The recent rebrand of Verature to Heresafe signifies the platform’s broader commitment to addressing a wider range of workplace safety challenges, extending its focus beyond contractor management tools. Expanding into modules like shift handover, incident, event and occurrence logging, Heresafe embarks on a new mission to make workplaces safer for everyone. Their vision is a future where every workplace is a model of safety and wellbeing. For current and prospective users, this means enhanced features, improved user experience and a continued dedication to excellence in health and safety compliance.
