Mace Sustain

In today's construction industry, managers face many competing pressures, often pulled between the priorities of complex sites, rapid programmes and the pressure to keep a project on budget. Even small contractors are finding that the old methods of form filling and paper logging of health and safety information are just too time consuming to stay on top of.

It's not just client pressures either. In late 2008 the UK government passed the Health and Safety Offences Act, which as of January 2009 promises far stricter punishments for those convicted of irresponsible health and safety activities. This redoubles health and safety management's place at the core of a successful project for everyone involved, from workers to public, from client to company.

Often this is simply a tale of missed opportunities. For a data-driven discipline like health and safety management, technology offers the chance to not just record but predict incidents before they happen. Real-time monitoring of site activity allows managers to model behaviour on site, anticipate problems before they happen and report up the chain of command. The improved accountability and transparency the technology provides makes for real cultural change in the way health and safety is viewed, not just on a particular project but gradually through a company as a whole.

Mace Group recognised the potential of this technology early on and developed its SHEonline tool in order to make data work harder and faster for the modern health and safety manager. It's successfully in use on over 150 projects and since its introduction Mace Group has seen its health and safety metrics steadily improve, now representing one of the lowest Accident Incidence Rates in the industry. SHEonline, run by the group's dedicated health, safety and environmental management consultancy Mace Sustain is now in use by much of Mace's supply chain, pushing up safety standards across an increasing majority of Mace projects from airports to schools, railway facilities to museums.

The SHEonline tool is at the heart of Mace Sustain's vision of health and safety management in the 21st century: a fact-driven discipline which demands flexible, statistical technology. By combining a powerful software platform with business intelligence we've created a better business and you can too.

To find out more about how introducing SHEonline can help your company effect real change on site visit the new version of www.sheonline.co.uk.

Contact us: sheonline@macesustain.com