“Safety first” is a common motto for many maintenance teams. Promoting Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is a priority in any sector, but especially in industries where teams are regularly interacting with equipment that presents hazards. Modern Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) can provide maintenance leaders with new technologies to streamline every facet of their work day, and OSH is a key component of this process. Here are five main benefits to using a CMMS with integrated OSH capabilities for total safety maintenance management.

1. BENEFITS TO USING A
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2. How many times have
you heard this?

3. How many times have
you heard this?
Promoting Occupational Safety
and Health (OSH) is a priority in
any sector, but especially in
industries where teams are
regularly interacting with
equipment that presents
hazards.

4. Effective maintenance policies are only
part of the process of creating a safe
environment.

5.  enforce safety policies.

6.  enforce safety policies.
 remind workers of best
practices on an ongoing
basis (not just during occasional
training meetings).

7.  enforce safety policies.
 remind workers of best
practices on an ongoing
basis (not just during occasional
training meetings).
 document that you are
following proper safety
procedures so that you are
ready for a regulatory audit.

8. All of these factors come together to
create major headaches for maintenance
managers, especially as many teams are
dealing with skimpy budgets that make
day-to-day operations
incredibly difficult to
manage.

9. In lieu of an aspirin, consider a modern
CMMS with OSH integration to reap these
5

10. 1. Inform workers of safety updates more easily.

11. 1. Inform workers of safety updates more easily.
A modern CMMS can integrate safety records of
almost any file type with asset management.
If a new safety guideline is created, a worker who
goes to work on an asset will view the new
guidance there…saving you from the need to
distribute the information and keeping workers
updated more
efficiently.

12. 2. Build-in reminders for drills and similar
measures.

13. 2. Build-in reminders for drills and similar
measures.
Running periodic emergency drills, practicing
emergency response techniques, and rehearsing
evacuations is a must to comply with various
regulatory standards and make sure all workers are
positioned to be safe during a disaster event. But
scheduling, performing, and documenting these
can be quite time-consuming. An OSH-enabled
CMMS lets you build schedules for emergency drills
into your other process schedules and document
results in the CMMS, keeping all the data at your
fingertips.

14. 3. Document incidents effectively.

15. 3. Document incidents effectively.
A CMMS can help build incident
documentation into all of the other
safety management within the system.
Sort through incidents by employee,
location, type, cause, and site, making it
much easier to put historic incident data
into context and use it to improve
operations on a day-to-day basis.

16. 4. Perform holistic audits from one platform.

17. 4. Perform holistic audits from one platform.
With all of your documentation, best practices, incident
reports and scheduling features in a central hub, you can
integrate your auditing functions into a CMMS and have it use
all of these resources to streamline
the entire evaluation process.
All of the data you need is in one
place, simplifying the analysis that
you need to perform!
Couldn’t we all use a little more
easy in our lives?

18. 5. Understand document history.

19. 5. Understand document history.
You don’t want to have to maintain every safety
document and record, but you need to know when
an employee makes a change. CMMS logs compile
full records to track changes
to documents and files,
letting you know who
changed policies, edited
procedures, or filed an
incident report.

20.  Inform workers of safety updates
more easily.
 Build-in reminders for drills and
similar measures.
 Document incidents effectively.
 Perform holistic audits from one
platform.
 Understand document history.
There you have it! A modern CMMS with OSH
integration allows you to:

21. It does the tedious back end work for
you so that you can focus on problem
solving and ensuring a safe
and healthy workplace.

22. Created by:
Paul Lachance
CTO/President
Smartware Group, Inc.
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