Safety App Of The Week

September 16, 2013 No Comments

Below is our “Safety App of the Week”.  These weekly features are published every Monday.  New apps are tested on Apple iPads and rated from ♥ to ♥♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥♥ is the best).  Prior app of the week articles are archived here.

SafetyMoments

Official Description  

“Free safety content to help support safety awareness in any office, field, industrial setting, or workplace.   O’Brien & Gere’s SafetyMoments app provides access to safety content to promote and enhance corporate safety culture. With safety examples for a wide range of applications, these safety moments are applicable to most any industry.

FEATURES

– Free app for use with iPad and iPhone

– Provides more than 50 safety moments – new additions coming soon

– Categorized by type for easy searching

– Excellent way to kick off any type of meeting

– Valuable at all levels of an organization

– Great tool to help enhance a safety culture

– Emphasis on visuals – easy to understand / minimal text.”¹

Thumbs Up

• cost is free
• both iPhone & iPad apps are offered
• no registration or sign in required
• well organized – easy and logical to use without any instruction
• looks great, beautiful photos and illustrations, easy to read
• each “Safety Moment” seems to be technically accurate and consistent with OSHA regulations (see LOTO screen print above)
• Safety Moments can be emailed, printed, copied or saved
• great resource for training new hires or for use in group safety meetings
• can be used off-line

Thumbs Down

• most of the 50 Safety Moments are very broad and general in scope – we’d like to see more “specific” Safety Moments offered 
• there are far too few Safety Moments – we’d like to see hundreds more developed and included with this app

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Overall Rating

• iPad  – ♥♥♥♥

¹ Descriptions courtesy of Apple Inc.

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