Occupational Safety App for Site Inspections, Hazards, and Mitigation Measures in EHS Management

Whether it’s a risk assessment, safety inspection, ladder and shelving inspection, or training: Each recurring inspection is created once in the Checklist Designer and is then available to every location in the same version. Using inspection object types, buildings, areas, facilities, and equipment can be mapped hierarchically, ensuring that each object is assigned the exact inspection points that apply to it. Inspection deadlines can be set, so that upcoming inspections are automatically assigned to the responsible personnel instead of being tracked in an Excel spreadsheet. Multilingual support based on a shared database ensures that even third-party contractors and international locations conduct inspections according to the same standard.

During the inspection, safety specialists and managers work directly in the Testify app on a tablet or smartphone, even without an active internet connection. Scanning a QR code on the equipment or in the area immediately opens the correct inspection form. A hazard is recorded at the relevant inspection point, tagged with a photo, severity level, and category, and clearly geotagged so that no one has to guess later which ladder or which area of the facility was meant. Thanks to speech-to-text, descriptions can be entered even while wearing gloves. There is no change in medium and no need for follow-up data entry on a computer.

A documented risk without a corresponding action plan is worthless in an emergency. Testify automatically assigns each finding to the responsible person and notifies them via email and push notifications. Corrective actions are tracked as tasks with deadlines and assigned responsibilities; escalations are triggered if deadlines are missed, and the timeline documents every step—including effectiveness checks—with timestamps. This ensures that it can be proven at any time that an identified hazard was not only noted but also rectified—exactly what matters in the event of a claim or during an inspection by the workers’ compensation association.

For every completed inspection, Testify automatically generates an audit-proof report in PDF format that can be presented immediately during audits, meetings with regulatory authorities, and in the event of a claim. In the reporting section, EHS managers can see which types of hazards are most prevalent, at which locations and in which areas, how many corrective actions are overdue, and how key metrics are trending over time. Site-by-site comparisons highlight where there is room for improvement, rather than each site maintaining its own separate list. For more in-depth analyses, the data can be transferred directly to Power BI.