Certainty Software has been selected as a finalist by VIATEC (Victoria Innovation, Advanced Technology, and Entrepreneurship Council) for Product of the Year in the 2018 Technology Awards! Thank you VIATEC! […]
Management – Responsible for safety AND saving money
When management is pressing for a schedule to be maintained and telling people that the ‘deadline must be met’, they would do well to pause for thought. It’s management that’s responsible for safety and cost savings, as well as the performance of our people in the field. Recently in the media, we’ve seen some notable […]
Saving a business money takes effort!
Unless you’re like the retail business manager who once told me that he was ‘making way too much money to worry about cutting costs, cost management simply aims to achieve the most cost-effective way of delivering your goods or services to a given level of quality. Cost management isn’t about reducing quality or short-changing customers. […]
Certainty Software…Protecting your reputation and assets
Any competent directors will want to comply with the law when managing SHE, but directors are also keen on protecting their reputation and assets of themselves AND their business from the adverse publicity that a serious accident would bring. Directors and managers will want to avoid undue pressure arising from employees, trade unions, and customers […]
Certainty Software is guaranteed to reduce the cost of HSE
Business managers may see there’s a cost involved in implementing good HSE systems and there is. However, there’s an enormous cost of not doing it properly. Here at Certainty Software, we’ve developed a powerful auditing and inspection tool that’s guaranteed to reduce the cost of managing HSE. Please don’t see health and safety purely as […]
Take the Certainty Software Challenge and Save your Company Thousands of Dollars per Site Every Year!
At Certainty Software, we are proud of one very important thing. Our clients save an enormous amount of time and money using Certainty Software – our audit and inspection management software solution. And that’s why we want to introduce the Certainty Software Challenge! By automating the audit/inspection process with Certainty Software, our clients on average […]
Is there enough checklist culture in the mining sector?
The key purpose of this blog series is to help ‘cross-fertilize’ ideas and opinions from one industry sector to another. This week we’re looking at the mining sector and reflecting on some of the challenges presented there. We found this great article in support of checklists and recommend you read it in full here, – […]
Did checklists help save my life…?
Modern healthcare is an industrial process just like any other. Whether we like it or not, when we go to a hospital for surgery we must submit to a process. Quite probably, dozens of individuals are going to get involved in our care. Some of those people will have direct continuous involvement in our care […]
“I don’t need these stupid checklists… because I know this stuff already.”
You may think that you don’t need to use checklists because you already know what to do or because you’ve done it a hundred times before. But even though you may have done so yourself or you’ve told other people what to do, it’s only human nature to make mistakes or to try and take […]
Solving Organizational Resistance to Checklists
No blog series on checklists can be complete without addressing the potential resistance to using checklists. It’s one thing for you to be convinced of the merits of checklists, but if your colleagues don’t think they’re a clever idea, then you’re going to have a struggle on your hands. We need to look at some […]
