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It has long been said that within business cash is king. In the 21^st century, there is a new kid on the block; information. During the early 2000s when the word cloud meant water vapour and smartphones were in their infancy, it would be hard to comprehend the importance of connectivity in today’s world. Today organisations focus on their analytics of Big Data, which has taken an almost fundamental position in business development. Access to such information gives knowledge such as Return on Investment statistics (ROI), consumer insights, market performance, asset performance, organisational historical statistics etc. Today’s business information and analysis ultimately controls the king of the 20^th century – cash.

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It’s vital that roads and railway tracks whether local, regional or national are effectively maintained for use. Improper construction and maintenance of such infrastructure can lead to costly results both in physical damage through abnormal wear or fatal casualties due to inadequate safety. Many organisations and business around the world are hence implementing paperless inspection systems to help monitor the construction and maintenance of their infrastructure.

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The inability to update quickly the regulatory paperwork and procedures, it can take days, weeks and even months to roll out a fresh set of checklists that are in line with the industries best. Such a waiting time further underlines the almost vital benefit that paperless solutions chiefly bring – speed and customisation. Perhaps the premier difference between paper-based inspection solutions to digital applications is speed. This is not only the speed of completing the actual checklist, nor undertaking the set inspection; speed differences can be visible almost everywhere. From collecting information via pictures instead of notes, scanning barcodes/RFID or standardised response forms, the inspectors job becomes much easier. 

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With an increasing strain on modern organisations to move digital, be forward-thinking and comply with strict environmental standards, taking your operations paperless is a sure-fire way to take your business to the next step. Inspection management with digital solutions is today possible thanks to the widespread availability of mobile technology, internet and tech-savvy employees in the workforce. Employees already fluent in the language of iOS and Android can use devices for work purposes from day one with virtually no training needed.

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IEC 31010 outlines a process to be followed when examining risk, all the way from definition to delivery of a risk report. It brings together a vast range of risk assessment techniques including identification steps and how to understand how unforeseen events can impact the business or assets. When used in complementation with ISO 31000, IEC 31010 has an expanded range of application and provides the user with a high level of risk management detail.

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Paperless environmental and ecogeneration inspection applications also offer the benefits of being digitally hosted. No more prime real estate being taken up by lockers of dusty inspection history or endless amounts of records no one can organise or find a way to navigate, digital means digital. Inspection applications are either hosted privately via an in-house server or on hosted cloud (SaaS) solutions. This means easy access to anyone necessary, industry officers, the management team or even inspectors themselves for referential use. 

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Many organisations maintain printed logbooks that are completed by operators at the beginning of their shifts.  Pervidi’s Electronic Logbooks replaces your paper logbooks by allowing your operators to record their pre-shift and post-shift inspections using Pervidi’s easy-to-use Inspection App. The inspection app can be downloaded on any consumer or business mobile device, running on iOS and Android platforms – its even accessible on any rugged and intrinsically safe smartphone or tablet available. Virtually no training is required; the App walks the user through questions/answers and records the pre-shift observations electronically.

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Oil and gas inspection requires both detailed techniques and measurements to collect data. Paper checklists have dominated inspections with no viable alternative until the introduction of mobile devices. Rugged devices and intrinsically safe devices with ATEX/IECEx Zone 1 and Zone 2 approval are available as fully-fledged smartphones with powerful functionalities. Paperless inspection solutions are becoming more and more widespread within the field, boasting a wide array of features for inspectors and officers to utilise as well as providing powerful data. Users can take advantage of the camera on the smartphone/tablet alongside speech-to-text services, touchscreen annotation and barcode scanning. 

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When choosing the inspection solution to fit your operation, it’s important to think through the process in which it will be used. Will it replace your entire business inspection process or just safety regulations? Will it be used by maintenance teams, asset managers or field personnel? Digital safety inspection solutions are giving both employees and employers numerous benefits. Inspection officials can make use of regular mobile devices with an intuitive inspection application, running just like any other smartphone app.

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Paperless aviation compliance is fast becoming a mainstay in aviation inspection. Aviation equipment and aircraft inspection follows similar processes to most other equipment and asset inspection checklists; its important to be up to date and detailed. This is why many industries and organisations are choosing to move their pen and paper checklist inspection methods into the digital era.

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