At OVS Solutions, we are eager to share our top tips for integrating noise and hearing protection into your safety training. Adding a workplace noise module to your training will be a breeze if you are using Rapid Induct. We recommend conducting a risk assessment...
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Time, cost and effort-saving benefits of utilising Rapid software
Whether you’re a long-time user of Rapid software, or you’re a newcomer to our growing clients that have enjoyed the benefits the solutions can deliver, you’ll appreciate the wealth of information below. We bring together highly specific use cases and industry challenges, along with valuable tips on how to maximise your returns through the use of the software.
Is your company’s induction program effective?
We’ve all sat through boring induction training, right? Much talk about health and safety, PPE, mission statements, dress codes, etc. But, if done professionally and efficiently, inductions can be interesting, boost morale, and clearly understand your organisation’s...
Enhancing Workplace Safety and Compliance with OVS Solutions Software
In today's fast-paced business world, ensuring workplace safety, compliance, and efficiency is paramount for organizations across various industries. Rapid Global, a leading provider of software solutions, offers a range of innovative tools designed to streamline...
Revolutionizing Risk Management with the Rapid Risk System
In the dynamic landscape of business operations, Risk Management plays a vital role in safeguarding organisations from potential threats, ensuring compliance with regulations, and driving sustainable growth. Rapid Global's Rapid Risk Management System stands out as a...
Dispelling Two Common Misconceptions Surrounding Incident Reporting
When it comes to reporting incidents, there is no margin for error. Following the correct incident reporting procedures can be critical to your company’s safety and success. However, it is not always a simple process, with many people believing two of the most...
Let’s Talk About How the Rapid Contractor Management System Can Manage Safety in Supply Chain Management.
The complex nature of supply chains poses significant risks to businesses. Many factors impact safety outcomes, particularly for smaller companies, sub-contractors, and labour-hire workers doing the work. Leadership plays a critical role in championing improved...
What are the benefits of a mobile visitor management system?
If your business is using a visitor management system, then you’re already well on your way to meeting the necessary health and safety legislation and requirements. But if your system is not mobile, then you are missing out on many benefits. What are visitor...
Understanding Occupational Health and Safety – Risk Management for South African Business
Every South African business is legally required to provide a workplace that is free of risks and hazards, but how is this even possible if your organisation is a factory, hospital, or industrial mining site? Can you create a job site without any hazards? In this...
5 Workplace Safety Tips for Organisations
Keeping your workplace safe and compliant with The Occupational Health and Safety Act regulations can be a full-time job even at the best of times. The Occupational Health and Safety Act, Act 85 of 1993, requires the employer to provide and maintain as far as...
7 Steps to build a positive health and safety culture in the workplace
How can you build a positive health and safety culture in the workplace in 2023? One that meets the ever-changing needs of a diverse workforce, evolving cultural norms, and emerging technologies? We have a 7-step plan for you to ensure your business is ready for...
Why you need an incident management system for your business
There’s no getting around it, an Incident Management System (IMS) is a crucial element of business management and workplace health and safety. An incident management system gives you the tools needed to improve site safety by identifying, analysing, and mitigating...
Why do I still need a risk and compliance software solution when I already have an ERP (enterprise resource planning) system?
Whilst some ERP systems do have risk and compliance functionality, the nature of risk and compliance management often means ERP software is unable to cater for the needs of company risk and compliance management. WHAT IS ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING? Enterprise...
Why your organisation needs a contractor risk management plan
Risk management is an umbrella term used in many industries when referring to taking steps towards forecasting and preparing for risk, with the goal of mitigating the risk. More specifically, when it comes to working with contractors, your organisation should have a...
Cyber security risks – how to mitigate and minimise them
Last week I was made aware of two major cyber security breaches, one of which directly impacted our business, by two of the top banks in South Africa. If the top banks in this country are battling to mitigate security breaches with the extensive resources they have...
The benefits of construction site access control
I have just been through the very painful process of building a factory. Despite an amazing and highly experienced builder, the enormous consumption of unnecessary and wasted energy, time and resource was a thing to behold. To add to the sheer frustration of it all,...
Common workforce management staffing challenges and how to fix them
“Insurance company Liberty has published its claim statistics for 2020, showing a significant increase in retrenchment and mortality claims following the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and hard lockdown in April.” BusinessTech 20 May 2021 Anyone who goes to a...
How WFM software delivers ROI to businesses
Time Is Money is an aphorism that originated in an essay by Benjamin Franklin that appeared in George Fisher’s 1748 book, The American Instructor: or Young Man’s Best Companion, in which Franklin wrote, "Remember that time is money." It is ironic that the words spoken...
How to develop an incident management program
On 03 May 2021, an elevated section of Mexico City’s subway system collapsed as a train made its way across, plunging several cars onto the road below and killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 70. An investigation is under way into the cause of the...
5 Reasons Why Health & Safety Software is a Good Investment
Unless you are buying a Lamborghini – just because you absolutely HAVE to have it, or the latest smartphone – just because it looks better – parting with your often scarce funding resource has to make financial sense. This is usually calculated by the return you get...
How risk management technology is changing the Work Health and Safety landscape
Whether we like it or not, the fast and furious pace at which technology is being developed and adopted in business leaves us with no choice but to adopt these new technologies or be left behind. Technologies like robotic process automation, which allows the...
How does automating my internal audit requirements help?
“Companies are racing to unlock value from the next generation of digital technologies, including digital labour, which has moved far beyond using macros on a spreadsheet. Robotic Process Automation (RPA)–one form of digital labour–involves the use of software robots...
Electronic Access Control Systems – Why do we need them?
We have come a long way since the first access control system – the wooden key – which was first used in Ancient Egypt and Babylon some 6,000 years ago. These days we are closer to being able to beam people in and out of places – a reality not as far-fetched as when...
3 New Years resolutions to implement in 2021 in your COVID-19 ready workplace
As predicted by economist John Maynard Keynes in 1930, the number of hours we work has shrunk significantly as technology makes us more productive. We also started spending extra time away from home due to commuting and suburban living patterns, which we often forget...
Do you know the real cost of running your business?
One of the hardest-hitting lessons learned by many boards and business owners in 2020 is that the cost of running a business is a lot more than one might realise. Without the ability to earn revenue in a state of hard lockdown, many corporates and MNCs are downsizing,...
Are you choosing shortcuts for long-term success?
Health and safety, up until 2020, has been seen as either a grudge investment or something that’s a luxury for many businesses. The bare minimum is done because there’s either the consequence of a fine, resulting from inspection, or a voice within the business becomes...
Training staff for risk adjustment
On Thursday 23 April 2020, President Ramaphosa announced a five-level risk adjustment programme that would help South Africans transition from the strict national lockdown toward a ‘new normal’. Each of the five levels requires a uniquely safe environment for every...
Flatten the curve with Rapid Global
We’re here to help you outsmart COVID-19 using the tools you have available. All around the world, leaders in government and in business are working together to combat COVID-19, but the most effective approach thus far has been prevention, wherever possible. Andrew...
Health and Safety Software: Customised or off the shelf?
How do you go about deciding what solution is right for you? When it comes to software there are 2 options available – develop your own customised solution or buy off the shelf solutions. Whilst the temptation to develop your own customised solution is attractive,...
Health and Safety has never been more important
In the grand scheme of Earth’s lifespan, it seems that in the blink of an eye, a health scare has thrust many business practices under the spotlight. The order of operations as we’ve known it for some time may very well be shifting once again, but there are positives...
5 ways to justify the cost of Health and Safety Software to the executive
Getting budget approval and buy-in from senior management is not only difficult for EHS professionals but can also be a daunting task. Did you know? Getting buy-in and budget approval is noted as a top barrier to purchasing EHS Software, with 31% of companies saying...
Top 5 Health & Safety technology trends to watch out for in 2020
His medical checkup only took a few minutes, and Derek Demun was anxious to get on with it. The one-time high school surf champion and big-time snowboarder fell off a roof nearly a decade ago and broke his back, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. But, thanks...
Guide: How to develop a world class Incident Management Program
In July 2006, a bouncy castle with 30 people inside it, broke free from its moorings and took off into the air in a freak gust of wind. It flew 50 feet into the air, turned over, and traveled 150 feet before landing on the ground. The castle seriously injured 13...
5 of the most surprising facts about choosing EHS software
Did you know that one of the biggest software mistakes cost $125 million? On its mission to Mars in 1998, the Climate Orbiter spacecraft was ultimately lost in space. Although the failure bemused engineers for some time it was revealed that a subcontractor on the...
Health & Safety principals in educational institutions
These 2 disturbing articles – that happened in the same month I write this blog – are only 2 examples of the increasing risks that our educational institutes and establishments are facing. Parents, caretakers and stakeholders are also becoming increasingly aware of...
Health and Safety software – The pros and cons
This year marks 30 years since the internet came into being. When it was first launched, many of our esteemed peers declared it would fail spectacularly, and yet look at us today. The internet affects and facilitates nearly every aspect of modern life. We use it for...
What is the best way to drive user adoption of EHS software?
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3 Questions to determine if your company needs a mobile app
“We all know that poor OHS compliance leads to low staff engagement, high turnover, lawsuits, fines, damage to a company’s brand, and of course, their bottom line. So, of course, it makes sense to get your health and safety compliance running smoothly. Yet far too...
How EHS Solutions can assist in improving and maintaining Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) programs in 4 easy steps
Implementing a health and safety management system is a good start. But it’s just a start. Every single day, we get a front-row seat to see how technology is transforming how we do business and the speed at which we do it. A great example of this is PayPal. This...
Managing contractors & suppliers? 4 ways to be compliant without the admin burden
Having contractors & suppliers on your premises is becoming increasingly risky and therefore costly. The responsibility is placed squarely on the business using their services and/or products to ensure they are compliant, safe, and working in a healthy...
5 New Years Resolutions to implement in 2019 to improve workplace health & safety
South Africa has seen many fatal tragedies in the last few years, from the collapse of the Grayston Drive pedestrian bridge to the fatal fire in the building belonging to the Gauteng government this year. Nearly 5 000 workers die each year as a result of fatal...
EHS Trends, Challenges and Technologies facing South Africa
Despite the economic and political challenges South Africa faces, the Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) laws and regulations in the country continue to grow at a rapid rate. In the last few years, South Africa has increased its regulatory framework and...
5 signs it’s time to replace your spreadsheets with online scheduling systems
With today’s highly pressured and very performance-managed working environment, it becomes ever more important that your time is efficiently and effectively managed. Time spent planning, scheduling, and assigning tasks can be utilized in a more...
Why compliance is worth the investment
Safety compliance and efficient workforce management are vital to large corporations for many reasons. It’s a known fact that with a comprehensive compliance plan, the workplace becomes safer, and consequently, productivity increases. However, the benefits extend...
Train your employees with ease and remain compliant with Rapid Induct
Do you have a high staff turnover? Or perhaps your company is growing so much, you find yourself employing staff at an increased rate? If so, Rapid Induct will drastically simplify your companies admin. This software can assist with a multitude of tasks, such as...
Rapid Incident – The benefit of a centralised Incident Reporting System
It is a well-known fact that incidents happen in the workplace, but how a company deals with them once they’ve happened is extremely important. Managing incidents effectively can save time, money, and admin hassles. Imagine a centralised system that keeps a record of...
Prevent illegal access to site
During our time in the market over the past 2 years, we have become aware of cases where illegal, non-compliant labour is brought to site to accelerate a project that is running late. These workers are not registered on any database or received the required induction...
Effectively manage the contractors you employ
Keep up to date with all your company happenings and supervise contractors with the touch of a button. Furthermore, reduce your company’s admin burden, maintain a full audit trail, prevent illegal access to the site, and remain compliant with Health and Safety...
Proactive safety measures with Rapid Global Africa
EIE Group, the partner of choice in distribution, rental and value-added services in the industrial equipment market, has an undisputed reputation for safety, value, innovation, quality, and best-in-class efficiency. Known for setting standards in their industry, the...
Lawyers hit hard by cybercrime in SA, insurance refuses to cover
Transfer attorneys in South Africa have increasingly become the victims of online scammers in the real estate sector, stated Rapport. Victims suffer losses worth millions of rand because insurers no longer provide cover for such scams. The Attorneys’ Insurance...
Rapid Change
The last year has been an interesting one for us. We identified our own gap in the market and settled in just fine. With compliance at the heart of everything we do, we’ve helped countless clients meet their industry’s requirements through our software...
Rapid Access Systems wins Cloud Innovation Award
“Rapid Global is very proud to once again solidify our position as a top tier software as a service producer in Australia. Having our Rapid Access Systems product recognised as a winner in the Cloud Innovation category, in The Australian Business Awards for 2016,...
Rapid Access Systems wins Software Innovation Award
“Rapid Global has proudly produced workforce management software for the Australian and global markets since 2001 with a range of online software products that are designed to drive efficiency, reduce risk and increase productivity and work health and safety...
Rapid Contractor Management wins Product Excellence Award
“As an Australian owned software development company, we are proud to have our leading product, Rapid Contractor Management, awarded as a winner of The Australian Business Awards 2016 for Product Excellence. Rapid Contractor Management is used by many of Australia’s...
Rapid Contractor Management wins Software Innovation Award
“Rapid Contractor Management is a flagship product of Rapid Global and as such we are delighted to once again have the product recognised in The Australian Business Awards 2016 as a winner in the Software Innovation category. The Rapid Contractor Management software...