The Challenge
Job Safety Analysis (JSA) or Field Level Risk Assessment is a risk assessment tool utilized in many industries to identify and control worksite hazards. JSA aims to identify risks to the public, worksite personnel, and equipment and then discuss and implement ways to reduce that risk. While computer-based systems have been in place for years, the inconvenience and expense of having workers fill out forms using a desktop or laptop computer at the job site means that this market is still largely paper-based.
Paper forms can be difficult and tedious to fill out by hand and one job site can produce a significant amount of paper. In addition, many of these forms are quasi-legal documents used for incident investigations, contractual disputes and court cases. They need to be maintained, organized and stored efficiently and correctly.
AG Technical Solutions (UK) and (US) (AGTS) is a company based in Aberdeen, Scotland that provides functional and technical support to business operational divisions including: Project Management, Project Controls, Safety Management and Technical Training. Due to their experience working within these industries, AGTS identified the need to make the JSA process more efficient and enlisted DevFacto to build an application to service this opportunity.