Safety App Of The Week

October 28, 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.

Occupational Health and Safety

Official Description  

“This FREE Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) app features the latest discussions, webinars and topics from our featured experts and publishers on the topics of:

– Occupational Health
– Workplace Safety
– OH&S Training and Tutorials
– OH&S Youtube Videos From Our Featured Experts
– Facebook & Twitter Discussions

The App also features the latest OH&S Job listings across Australia, the USA, UK, and Canada.”¹

Thumbs Up

• cost is free
• no registration or sign in required
• well organized – easy and logical to use without any instruction
• visually it looks great
• can be used off-line

Thumbs Down

• the “safety jobs” section shows only six job openings for the entire USA
• “safety training videos” are not searchable, most are low resolution, many would not play properly, and some are nothing more than advertizements
• “safety headlines” are old, they only post 3 or 4 each month, and most are from small countries that we have no interest in
• we see little value in this app and will never use it

Overall Rating

• iPad – ♥♥
• Android – ♥♥

¹ Descriptions courtesy of Apple Inc.

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