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How to automate “do safety walks and area audits”

Here is the best way to spend less time on this, best first. Each comes with steps you can follow today.

45 min
typically, once a week
35%
of the time can be automated
Easy
to set up

Fix 1 of 1

Software feature

Do safety walks and 5S audits on a phone checklist

SafetyCulture (iAuditor) and similar apps let you walk, tap pass or fail, take photos and assign actions on the spot. The report writes itself.

Typically saves about 45% of the time45 min to set up
  1. 1Pick a ready template (5S, safety walk, LOTO check) from the app's library and adapt it.
  2. 2Do the walk on your phone, adding photos to anything that fails.
  3. 3Assign each action to a person with a due date in the app.
  4. 4Let the report send itself to the right people.

Tools: SafetyCulture (iAuditor) · Tulip, Poka, Augmentir, SafetyCulture or Microsoft Power Apps

Who does this task

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Production supervisor

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