Workplace Safety & Prevention Services | 10
From
customer
to partner
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The new solution
has really made
inspections easier.
Simon Kaplansky
Occupational Health & Safety
Manager, Longo's
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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.
