Safety App Of The Week
December 8, 2014 No CommentsBelow is this week’s “Safety App of the Week“. Every Monday we publish an article that reviews and rates a new workplace safety app. Our testing is done on Apple iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3s. We rate each app from ♥ to ♥♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥♥ is the best). Prior app of the week articles are archived here.
Easy OHS – Hazard & Risk Identification Record
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Official Description
“Easy OHS is a powerful Hazard & Risk Assessment Record Keeping Tool. A truly mobile and powerful way to capture and record incident details and subsequent treatment. Never again will you need to keep extensive and confusing paperwork.
Features Include
– Easily capture vital Hazard Information including site of dates, control, action required and action taken
– Attach Photo & Video evidence to clearly record potential workplace hazards from camera roll or Dropbox
– Filter and Communicate OHS Hazard Reports via Email & Dropbox.
Easy OHS also stores all of your content on iCloud which automatically syncs OHS records between all your devices with iCloud. “1
Thumbs Up
- cost is free
- this app really is “easy” – no instructions are needed to use it
- can attach photos and videos to your reports
- built-in spell checker
- can email completed reports (email addresses are auto-populated)
- completed reports are archived for future reference
- works off-line
Thumbs Down
- unfortunately the “take photo/video” selection button does not work – we found a workaround that involved adding photos/videos from your mobile devices’ library using the “select from library” button (a couple more steps, but this method does work just fine)
Overall Rating
- iPad / iPhone – ♥♥♥♥♥
- Android – not available
- Overall – this is the only free risk assessment app that allows you to attach a “video” to your report (a big deal). Even with the little glitch we found when attaching photos and videos, this is still the best free risk assessment app currently available.
¹ Description courtesy of iTunes
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