The Top 8 Workplace Safety Apps

Smartphones are very common today and as some people use them to check their emails, text their friends and view websites, many others are using their gadgets for other functions among them, to get weather reports, play games, read news and safety. Here is a look at the top workplace safety apps that you can have in your smartphone.

Too Loud?
This app gives answers to maintain your hearing healthy. It is a very useful app for people working in busy, noise-filled surroundings like manufacturing and heavy industrial facilities, cafeterias, farms and concerts. Too Loud? utilizes color to let you immediately know if noise levels have got to an unhealthy level.

Online-MSDS
This app provides instantaneous access to the industry-leading information base of Safety Data Sheets. It allows you to save an unlimited SDSs number to your personal “binder” assisting you respond fast to any dangerous material emergency. You can share the complete SDSs by email, fax, text, Facebook or Twitter.

Dangerous Goods Manual
This app is perfect for emergency responders and it helps you to identify dangerous materials and offers Emergency Response Intervention (ERI) cards on first actions for fire fighters. No internet connection is required to use this app.

OSHA Heat Safety Tool
This workplace safety app utilizes available weather information to protect people who work extended hours in hot conditions. Once you have this app, your smartphone will display heat as well as safety risk to outdoor personnel with reminder to drink adequate fluids, know what should be done in an emergency and schedule breaks.

EHS Audit and Inspection Tool
This app offers over 500 checklists and templates for a wide range of inspections, which includes ISO, OSHA, crane inspection and medical device standards. You can capture pictures, audio and video; generate reports in PDF, Excel, Word and CSV; customize templates; and sync your reports to WikiChecklists for team collaboration.

Pocket First Aid and CPR from the American Heart Association
This app features 34 videos, 46 clear illustrations as well as informative articles and it provides step-by-step tips for many first-aid procedures and CPR. Besides, you can manage personal medical data for several people and utilize the first aid kit checklist for ensuring your kit is wholly stocked with all essential supplies.

NIOSH Lifting Calculator
This app makes NIOSH’s calculation in both standard and metric measurements and represents the certified professional ergonomists’ effort. You can evaluate existing as well as proposed lifting conditions so as to determine the RWL (Recommended Weight Limit) for a particular task or job.

PhoneGuard Premium
This app is very useful of all workplace safety apps and is available by subscription and it gives you one year of safeguard from your own temptation to become a distracted driver. PhoneGuard senses when the vehicle is moving and prohibits emailing, texting as well as web browsing, while still permitting emergency calls such as 911. Separate controls for auto-reply, speed control and override are also provided.

Crane Operator Hand Signals
This app gives users access to every necessary crane hand signal in both Spanish and English. All signals included are compliant with OSHA’s Cranes plus Derricks Standard revealed graphically so operators can speedily reference the suitable signal for every command.

Tim is a tech blogger interested in software and app development, SEO and game design. During the day he writes code for INX Software and their Occupational Health and Safety software.

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Where Does The Future Of Mobile Technology Lie?

Mobile technology is something that has changed so dramatically in recent years. The developments have been swift and technologically ground breaking, everyone nowadays seems to have a Smartphone and these mini-computers are becoming more advanced by the day.

Due to the market competition companies now have to ensure that their specifications are constantly changing and updating in order to keep up with the competition. There are so many new models out each month and it just means the consumer has more choice, which is never a bad thing.
The Android platform is on the rise and that is because it is open sourced, meaning companies can use it to power their phone or tablet. This is the fiercest competition that the iPhone has faced and it has culminated in their release of two new iPhone’s aimed at premium and low end consumers.

This article will highlight where the future of mobile technology lies and what it is about these devices that makes them so appealing to the consumer. We live in a world dominated by the internet and the popularity of these phones reflects that wholly.

More Advanced

These devices are only going to get more advanced, with the introduction of 4G internet access and retina screens the move forward has already started. Companies are constantly changing and updating their software and this can only mean that the specifications of these phones are going to improve as the years go on.

There are many companies out there now that sell Smartphones and they each have features specific to that brand which I find very interesting. The rise of the tablet in recent months has meant mobile phones could start to take a larger form and they may well start looking more like computers rather than phones.
The world is changing and there is nothing that will halt it, the only way progress will stop is if the internet is banned and that is most certainly not going to happen.

Internet Age

We live in an internet age and that has been reflected with the number of Smartphones on the market. Apps are extremely popular and there are cross platform app development companies out there that run solely to create apps that work on all types of Smartphone.

Mobile technology advancement has created new industries and this will continue to expand so long as the popularity of the phone continues.

Accessible

These phones are so accessible in the sense that they are cheap when on contract and allow for internet access wherever you mad be. It is frightening how fast things have changed and how many of us are so dependent on our phones to function.

The high speed internet and video capabilities not to mention the high definition cameras makes the user experience something like no other.

The future of mobile technology knows no bounds and it is most certainly going to keep advancing as the years go on.I don’t at all think it is a bad thing, technology is the greatest thing we have on this earth so why not take advantage of it.

Andrew is an author with a love for modern technology. He keeps up with the latest changes and developments, writing about them as they happen. He has over 10 years industry experience to boot.

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