Technology can help fast-track a transformation in the way your organisation does and sees safety for the better, leading to:
1. Less time lost to administration work
2. A higher rate of incident reporting before incidents become accidents
3. An increase in engagement with your safety goals at all levels
The reality of that means that more of your people are going home unharmed to their families every day.
But not all technologies are built equal. Sometimes, an old technology no longer matches your goals and it’s time to level up.
WHS leaders are often at the head of the charge in implementing new safety software. It’s a big undertaking. You’re investing not only the cost of the software but the time taken to implement. And implementation projects fail. All. The. Time.
Standish Group reports that only 31% of implementation projects are successful, and of that 31%, only 46% return high value on investment. Those are tough odds.
Why do so many of these implementations fail? There are many roadblocks at various stages.
The main challenges of WHS software transformation come about not only when navigating vendor selection to find the technology partner right for you, but configuring and rolling out that software throughout the organisation using best-practice change management so that users at all levels feel engaged, and so positive change can come about.
I’ve been in the business of safety for a while now. I’ve worked over the last 15 years alongside hundreds of organisations to implement safety software, and I collaborate every day with a stellar team of Safety Leaders and Project Managers at ecoPortal now.
Here are 9 tips gleaned over my and my expert team’s years of experience successfully digitising WHS programmes for a range of organisations, especially at the enterprise level. These points have been collated in collaboration with ecoPortal’s Project Management team—the group of experts working directly with our customers to beat the odds.