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 Workplace Safety & Prevention Services  | 10 From customer to partner — " — The new solution has really made inspections easier. Simon Kaplansky Occupational Health & Safety Manager, Longo's — " — WSPS and Longo's partnered to pilot a service that empowers organizations to manage hazards more efficiently and effectively. The result is WSPSGo, a flexible and adaptable tool for workplace inspections. Employing 6,500 people, Longo's operates 33 grocery stores across the Greater Toronto Area, as well as GroceryGateway.com, an online sales and delivery service. For more than seven years, the company has been coming to WSPS for health and safety support. Based on their strong relationship, Longo's challenged WSPS to create an inspection service that would reduce slow, manual processes; incorporate features for tracking, reporting and analysing data; and monitor action items relating to identified hazards. While the WSPS team worked on a web-based platform, representatives from both WSPS and Longo's created a specific inspection checklist and report template. Longo's was the subject of the successful pilot and continues to access the platform on a subscription basis. Within the first year of rolling out the new tool at Longo's (in combination with other initiatives), overall incident rates dropped significantly. "The new solution has really made inspections easier," says Simon Kaplansky, Longo's Occupational Health & Safety Manager. "It automatically generates customized reports. Managers then receive an automated notification and update action items online. It helps us measure proactive behaviours across the organization, and enables me to share with our business leaders analytical data that we were not able to easily tap into before." WSPSGo can generate quality reports that can be viewed and downloaded, and allows pictures to be taken of each hazard identified. WSPS is exploring options for offering this type of service to other organizations.

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