Safety feature added to Heavy Job Field Management Software

Created for companies whose crew-based employees perform dangerous work

HOUSTON. TEXAS — HCSS introduced a new, easy-to-use safety capability to its popular HeavyJob® Field Management Software for companies whose crew-based employees perform dangerous work. The new capability enables companies to plan safety goals by employee and track them quickly and electronically.

Tracking safety information traditionally has been paper-intensive, with valuable information stored in boxes to be used only when an incident occurs. “This new software takes safety information capture and retrieval to an entirely new level for organizations where the health and safety of crew-based employees requires constant vigilance,” said Mike Rydin, HCSS president.

HCSS originally developed HeavyJob and its safety capability for the construction industry, but has begun marketing it to other industries with similar safety issues. “The features and benefits of HeavyJob’s safety capability apply to other industries whose employees are crew-based,” Rydin explained.

Types of safety training, including individual subjects, can be set up for use as a pick-list throughout the company. Each class of employee can then be set up with goals specific to that class. For example, a foreman might be required to attend a specified number of safety-related meetings per year to help guarantee that he has sufficient knowledge to protect his workers.

As foremen use HeavyJob daily to enter timecards, diary notes and other field information, they can quickly record safety meetings using an electronic form that describes a meeting’s topic and length and the employees who attended it. Since the foreman’s crew is already in the computer, logging employee attendance takes only a few seconds. Company safety personnel can use that information to identify employees who have attained the required amount of training and those who might be deficient. Besides field personnel, the software also handles safety requirements for professionals and executives.

“HeavyJob’s new safety capability helps companies live up to their commitment to a ‘culture of safety,’” Rydin explained. “By setting goals and making it easy to monitor those goals, gaps in education can be addressed quickly. If an incident occurs, management has the information at their fingertips to show exactly what kind of training and education has occurred.”

Besides tracking the time of meetings, the software also records meeting cost. The total amount spent on safety education by the entire company is readily available if those numbers are needed by its insurance company, OSHA or in court

Founded in 1986, HCSS develops estimating, field entry, dispatching and related software. In addition to high quality software, HCSS provides implementation planning, training and instant 24/7 support. Thousands of companies rely on HCSS to turn their estimators, foremen, superintendents, dispatchers, project managers and equipment managers into knowledge workers via software, implementation planning and training.

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