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Safety-Link launch Ireland's first Safety Apps
- will help to save time, money, lives and create 5 new jobs in the next 3 years -
Monaghan-based Health and Safety expert Safety-Link Consulting has teamed up with US mobile apps specialist Canvas to provide safety apps for companies and organisations on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as across the globe. The new safety apps will not only save time, money and lives but will create up to 5 jobs in the next 3 years.
The first of their kind in Ireland, these safety apps allow for more efficient and cost effective health and safety routine tasks to be performed. Automated paper-based safety audits, inspections, assessments and reports can now be filled out on any Smartphone or Tablet including iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and Windows enabled mobile devices.
Safety professionals therefore no longer need to rely on cumbersome and sometimes illegible paper forms. Instead, safety forms are completed on an app, which develops a PDF that can be branded and emailed to the customer, supervisor or whomever the user designates. The forms can also be downloaded into excel, searched online and plugged into applications like QuickBooks and QuickBase. The apps can even capture a users GPS location and photos can be added to any report.
"Health and Safety is a challenging environment and complying with legislation is critical," according to Martin Denny, managing director, Safety-Link Consulting. "The allocation of revenue towards health and safety compliance can be a difficult choice for management, especially in these challenging times. We are a very small business and have been developing our paper-based forms for many years now. We are really pleased to team up with Canvas to make our traditional paper safety forms available as mobile apps for businesses and organisations. Not only will the new safety apps help to save money, time and allow for more accurate reporting, they will help to save lives and create up to 5 new jobs here in Ireland in the coming 3 years.
The concept of using one's smartphone or tablet to do paperwork is new in Ireland and people are more used to using these devices to access email, the web, make calls or text. Safety professionals can now visit our own Safety-Link app store and source apps for Accident reports, First Aid reports, Generic Health and Safety checklists, an Audit for Health and Safety Risk Assessment, a Premises Safety Inspection checklist and even a Drivers Daily Vehicle Safety checklist," added Martin Denny, managing director, Safety-Link Consulting.
The safety apps are free to download for a 30 day trial and can then be purchased on a pay as you go term for as little as €0.37 per form per mobile user, or €15 per month for an unlimited number of form submissions per mobile user. There is also an annual package available for €156 that gives 12 months of unlimited form submissions per mobile user. Fifteen users across the globe have already signed up for the 30 day trial in the past few days since the apps became available online.
"Our association with Safety-Link reflects a growing movement towards mobile solutions replacing traditional paper forms," said Michael Benedict, VP, App Store, Canvas. "We are essentially doing for paper forms what the iPod has done for analog music. Working with Safety-Link Consulting is also a terrific example of a transatlantic business relationship built entirely using online communication tools, and one that opens up our businesses to a global audience. It is also a great story of entrepreneurship and innovation in Ireland where an independent businessman has taken his 14 years of expertise in safety and initiated a transatlantic business association for the benefit of his own business, other businesses and the Irish economy."
The Safety-Link app store in association with Canvas can be found at www.gocanvas.com/safety-linkconsulting
Notes to editor
A recent business survey conducted in the US showed that more than three-quarters of small-business owners - 78% say mobile apps are saving them significant time each week. Their estimates of the weekly savings came to an average of 5.6 hours. They are also saving employee time.
In Ireland, apps are being used more and as they become easier to use, deploy and customise, while meeting the financial needs of businesses and organisations. We are likely to see new trends emerging here as businesses and organisations engage more with apps and look for new technology solutions across many sectors in order to save time and money.
About Safety-Link Consulting
Based in Co. Monaghan in Ireland, the company provides Health and Safety consultancy and auditing across public and private sectors, in particular, for SMEs.
Areas of specialisation include: Hazard and Risk Assessments, Safety Statements, PAT Testing (portable appliance testing) in all of the following areas Construction, Transport Distribution and Warehouse storage, Health Care, Security, Manufacturing, Retail, Bar and Restaurant Engineering and community group activities. Safety-Link Consulting has a clear aim which is to enable employers to comply with their legal obligations which are set out in the safety health and welfare at work act of 2005 in Ireland, the general applications regulations 2007-2010 and all other associated legislation.
Martin Denny, Managing Director established Safety-Link Consulting in 2005 and it has grown steadily since and has a strong client base. In order to improve the standard of its risk assessment and auditing services, the company recently launched its own App store in conjunction with US firm Canvas, taking paper work out of the office and making it available to use now on iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile.
Safety-Link Consulting is members of The Chartered Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (IOSH), the National Irish Safety Organisation (NISO) and the European Safety & Health Professional Organisation (ENSHPO)
For more information please visit http://www.safety-linkhealth.com/ App store: http://www.gocanvas.com/mobile-forms-apps/15224/show_creator?reference_sa_id=15224
About Canvas
Canvas provides a mobile business application service that makes it easy to find, customize and publish business apps for mobile devices. In July 2011, the start-up raised $1.2 million investment from Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, the strategic investment arm of Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:MSI.)
Canvas reduces paper consumption, redundant data entry, and excess processes for businesses and mobile professionals. The Canvas software service enables mobile professionals to collect information using their mobile devices and share that information across their business community. This information can even be downloaded directly into popular back-end systems such as QuickBooks and QuickBase.
Canvas also offers the first mobile business app store of its kind, allowing businesses from diverse industries to find mobile applications specific to their business that work on Android, Blackberry, Apple, and Windows mobile/desktop devices. Every Canvas application is customizable by the end user, and comes with GPS/location, image capture, electronic signatures and accessibility to a customer's own data like parts catalogs and patient records. To date, Canvas has automated nearly 220,000 manual processes/paper forms, making it one of the fastest growing mobile app services for businesses. For more information on Canvas please visit www.GoCanvas.com