With many construction sites using extremely large and heavy materials, safety is not just some gimmick but a vital part of the construction process. No-one wants an incident where machinery, employees or the load itself gets damaged.
Today, like many other industries, the construction sector is making use of digital inspection solutions to help manage many checks and inspections within their daily operations. Whether this is a routine site safety audit, an asset standard compliance check or a quality assurance inspection, the process is completed by the inspector and their digital inspection solution running off a mobile device. Pervidi paperless inspection solution using mobile technology to carry out such checks is the futureproof replacement for the pen and paper checklist, giving the field personnel a much more advanced and ever improving piece of kit. For inspectors working on a skyscraper build site, there may be cranes that require compliance with standards such as those produced by the International Organisation for Standards (ISO)- (e.g. ISO-12480, ISO-4309, ISO- 17096, etc.), or Australian Standards (e.g. AS-2550, AS-1418, AS-1353, AS-2317, AS-4991 etc.). Similarly, there may be routine quality assurance inspections of the building material such as the glass panels, steel beams or concrete mix that has been delivered to the site. Equally likely is the adoption of routine site safety audits, ensuring that all safety protocols are being followed at all times during an active site. Whatever the inspection; the field personnel will have the checklist or report required in the palm of their hand, with all necessary tools ready to use.
Pervidi mobile inspection solution is widely adopted application across industry sectors due to its powerful features adaptability and ability to be tailored. Regardless of the inspection type (eg. visual, proof load, periodic, major etc.), there are basics that are already included in Pervidi, such as: the time and location of the check, the type of inspection, previous inspection performance data, and necessary industry guidance/regulations that are relevant to the inspection. With Pervidi paperless inspection application, hook and load management becomes much simpler for the operators. With any construction site, the hook and/or load can be registered within Pervidi solution as assets (eg. chains, load rings, blocks, slings ,hooks, shackles, eyebolts, etc.) meaning that all inspection data for that particular asset is categorised within Pervidi and reported to the client automatically. This can be done by manual ID recording, scanning barcodes/RFID or BLE -Bluetooth Low-Energy tag technology. When the asset is set up in the Pervidi web portal, it can be assigned multiple inspections.
In such an inspection, the operator could use the device camera to record the physical condition of the item, comparing this with the previous inspection data which is attached to the checklist as reference material. Particular areas of new wear could be highlighted on the image itself using annotations, or if not required, be noted in the report itself. The standardised response checklist design would give the inspector greater speed in completing the check, whilst logic would require all steps to be completed before the check can be considered done. This means that the asset would be checked against previous data, with certain types of check also being required to ensure the correct level of detail.
It is not just the immediate inspection of the lifting equipment that benefits from mobile technology. Taking the load or straps as a different example, there can be historical tracking of the asset in Pervidi that provides information for management, safety and maintenance teams. If an issue is recorded with the aforementioned asset, all stakeholders can quickly assess the history, with all operations recorded in Pervidi database, matching the asset with the loads or straps used. This provides for excellent abilities for return-on-investment analysis, as well as an understanding of what works well within your organisation. It may be that a particular hook doesn’t operate well with certain loads due to the specific movements of the lifting operation, or that there could be other straps that would improve the lifespan of the hook. With all the inspection data passing through Pervidi, alongside the possibility to integrate it with business intelligence or ERP solutions, its no wonder why so many organisations within the construction industry are starting to realise the power of digital.
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