ComOps construction industry contract win

Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:05

IT Industry - Deals

Business software and services company, ComOps, has won a contract to deploy its safety and risk management reporting software at Australian-listed construction and property company, Watpac.

Under the contract, ComOps subsidiary, Australian Workplace Software (AWS), will deploy its safety, health and environment (SHE) software to standardise and enhance safety reporting across Watpac’s construction division, following the company’s period of rapid growth and multiple acquisitions.

Watpac’s national general manager construction, Martin Monro, said today the decision to deploy ComOps followed a structural change in the company earlier this year which created a “stronger national brand for the company’s construction business and resulted in a decision to go to market for a comprehensive safety reporting system.”
 
Monro said recent acquisitions and fast growth had resulted in previously stand-alone businesses conjoining Watpac with their existing individual occupational, health and safety reporting systems which were autonomous, home built and had evolved over time.

“While these existing safety reporting systems were appropriate for the previously existing businesses, we wanted to standardise safety reporting across the entire organisation in order to effectively scale with our growth.  We had reached a point where we needed to consolidate out safety reporting into one seamless system across all the states.”

According to Monro, Watpac chose ComOps following a review of several solutions.

“Ultimately, the ComOps solution was the most flexible to scale for our needs and could provide consistency across all the states in terms of accommodating variance in local legislation.  We liked the logic that stood behind the SHE architecture and the way in which information could easily be captured.  In addition, ComOps presented a professional approach in terms of customer service, technical excellence and pre-sales support.”

Watpac will use the ComOps solution to record and analyse incidents and produce detailed web-based dashboard reports using a common language to manage its workforce of project managers, design manager, supervisors, engineers, plant operators, estimators, contract administrators, design managers, and site managers.

Watpac, with offices and sites in Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Vietnam, expects the ComOps deployment to be completed within the next three months.