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The Tasmanian Fire Service is to deploy a web-based safety and risk management reporting system from business software vendor, ComOps, which will automate its hazard and accident reporting and support the service’s training requirements in occupational health and safety and risk management.
The ComOps solution replaces TFS’ manual
reporting system which the service’s senior project officer, John
Green, said was unable to support real-time analysis for up to 200
incident reports generated annually.
“Indeed, TFS has recently undertaken benchmarking with other
organisations and now requires statistical information to compare
incident reporting with other emergency services on an ongoing and
timely basis.
“Being manually-based, our previous system was increasingly unable to
locate, record and analyse hazard and accident reporting in real time.
As a result, management lacked confidence in the system’s ability to
adequately support the organisation’s safety systems in the future.
Being so focused on hard copy, paper reporting, our old system was
simply unable to rapidly manipulate the data we required.”
Green said ComOps was selected following a market review and was chosen
based on its “modular architecture, ease of configuration and breadth
of successful deployment in the emergency services sector.
“Initially, our corporate direction was to try and improve our existing
system however it did not meet our needs. We needed a specialist
occupation health and safety system. The ComOps solution came up as
one of the best systems on the market as it was web-based, modular and
we could easily configure the solution for our own particular
requirements. We were also impressed with the organisation’s strength
and heritage of success in the emergency services market.”
Green said that, as the solution is web-based, the fire service’s
management team will be able to access the intranet and see the
progress of hazard and accident reporting for all our employees, while
individuals will be able to review the status of their individual
reports. This will be of major benefit in particular for remote staff
members.”
Deployment of the ComOps system commences next month with the system to
be fully operational by the end of the year, and Green says that once
the solution is fully deployed, and more and more people within the TFS
gain confidence in its benefits, “we hope to see wider reporting of
near miss incidents and greater accuracy of the information within
those reports which will enable us to fix hazards before they evolve
into major accidents.”
According to Green, ComOps will play a key role in support of a “safe
work place where people are able to fulfil their potential and
contribute to the achievement of our goals.”
The TFS is the operational arm of the State Fire Commission and
includes over 230 fire brigades across Tasmania comprising around 250
career firefighters and 4,800 volunteer firefighters.
David Bass
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