We celebrate the 20 companies that have showed innovation when it comes to worker safety
Technology is complex and sophisticated in 2022 but in the world of occupational health and safety it has one primary aim – to protect lives.
To that end, Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) surveyed safety professionals and others in the COS network and awarded 20 companies the 5-Star OHS Software and Technology Provider award for their innovations, which increased and ensured workers’ safety.
“The world doesn’t care if a piece of equipment breaks or is damaged, or if a product is lost. But if you harm a human being, then there is a problem. OHS is about people – you can’t tech out the people,” says Christl Aggus, president and chair of the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE).
Confined spaces, cloud-connected wearable software, ESG and data privacy are just some of the areas covered by our winners.
To read the full report, including reaction and statistics, and to discover the names of the 20 award winners, click on this link.
Among the winners was FlexManager, which produces a product suite to help clients manage workplace compliance and give them more control and oversight of their operations. To read its profile, click here.
Industry expert Dave Rebbitt, CEO of Rarebit Consulting, which provides services across Western Canada, is clear that OHS software and tech providers, such as the 5-Star winners presented in this report, have a golden opportunity to be relevant in the long term.
“One of the issues that I see is [companies] try to develop their own platform and that sounds like such a good idea, except the development usually involves a small group of people and when any one of those people leaves the company for whatever reason, that hamstrings the software and the ability to use it,” he explains.
“They really should be trying to get something that’s off the shelf that can be upgraded and updated. If you develop something internally, you’re really playing with fire, in my opinion.”
To read the full report, including reaction and statistics, and to discover the names of the 20 award winners, click on this link.
