The document outlines 8 ways checklists can enhance construction safety, highlighting the transition from manual to digital checklists for improved efficiency and reduced human error. Key benefits include easier customization and standardization, real-time data collection, and enhanced collaboration among team members. Digital checklist applications not only streamline project management but also contribute to a safer construction environment by allowing for quick audits and efficient communication.

1. 8 WAYS HOW CHECKLISTS
IMPROVE CONSTRUCTION SAFETY
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2. • A construction checklist is basically a list of standardized
steps, created especially for repetitive tasks and is a key
elements of construction safety.
• These checklists let project managers to connect critical
elements of a construction project, describing activity-
specific information as well as different project phases.
• A construction inspection checklist aids in classifying and
assessing specific materials, items, tasks, equipment and
much more carefully.
• The majority of construction industry workforce make use
of manual checklists to enhance construction safety.
• Manual inspection processes are cumbersome and
time-consuming.
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3. • They are also susceptible to many human errors,
which explains the high rate of workplace injuries
and fatalities in the construction industry.
• Digital checklists are an excellent solution to
enhancing construction safety.
• Project managers who have already switched a
checklist applications, are experiencing better
team agility and productivity, in addition to realising
health and safety benefits.
• When a checklist app in your mobile device or
smartphone becomes your go-to checklist tool, all
the necessary information and records you require
are just a few taps away.
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4. • There are several apparent advantages of using a mobile
device-based digital checklist application that helps you
manage and maintain your work site.
1. Easily Create Customised and Standardised Checklists:
A great checklist application lets you prepare and handle lists as
well as workflows. You may have detailed lists and sub-lists with
different iterations and versions on the basis of your specific
needs. You can also have customised checklists and you can
standardise a few based on your project’s needs. Standardisation
and customisation helps you avoid any possibility of task
duplication, concentrate on the ultimate goal and meet first-time
quality consistently.
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5. 2. Oversee Complicated Projects:
Big construction projects are sophisticated as well as
lengthy. Handling a notebook-based checklist with
numerous items is perhaps not the best approach to
managing a sizeable project. Using a digital checklist
application, you can create a list of any required length
without compromising on mobility and usability.
3. Detailed and Fast Audits:
Maintaining and ensuring the team's health and safety
is a challenging task, particularly at a construction site.
A single incidence of injury or fatality is may not be too
concerning, but ensuring construction safety requires
dedication and attention. With a digital checklist tool,
you can carry out regular audits quickly which makes
sure that nothing goes undetected ever. Moreover, it
will allow you to keep the whole team and key project
stakeholders updated all the time, on the risk and
possible issues without losing them in huge piles of
documents.
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6. 3. Templates:
Most checklist apps come equipped with checklist
templates that allow you to get started with inspections
immediately. The most advanced versions come with
sizeable template libraries, developed by experienced
project managers that can be used as a beginning point
for the construction project. In addition to saving you a
lot of time, these help you capitalise on the knowledge
of expert project managers while creating your own
construction checklists.
4. Paperless Approach:
In today’s digital era, going paperless is great for any
business. Many green building construction projects
need their contractors to use digital tools, which helps
minimise their carbon footprint. The global green building
materials market is estimated to reach £280 billion by
2022.
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7. That means, if you want to maximise on this opportunity, a
checklist application can aid you in going paperless.
Apart from helping you get the prospective business,
going paperless enables you company to become more
efficient. You may no longer require keeping track of
each checklist form. Moreover, you can complete your
on-site inspection without the need for sorting and
organising paperwork at the end of the day.
6. Smooth Collaboration:
Paper checklists make the process of collaborating with
your project stakeholders and team members tedious and
challenging. When you use a checklist application, you
can involve everyone, exchange ideas and make
remarks in real-time. This also allows for faster information
flow, eventually improving construction safety and the
overall quality of your project.
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8. 7. Real-Time Data Collection:
Access to real-time data at a construction site is critical to
achieving first-time quality. A great checklist application
makes this possible by saving the data to the cloud and
making it instantly accessible by team members. This
feature aids project supervisors in taking corrective steps
without any delay.
8. Collect, Annotate and Markup Pictures:
Finally, a good checklist app collects, annotates, and
marks-up pictures. You can simply click real-time
photographs using your smartphone and further add
them to your inspection report. You will no longer require
carrying around a standalone camera with you,
downloading those pictures to a desktop computer, and
send them over emails to the relevant project teams.
Image annotations bring depth and clarity to your
inspection reports, which ensures that every person
involved in the project understands all references.
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9. IMPROVING CONSTRUCTION
SAFETY WITH CONSTRUCTION
MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
• Safety is the top priority of any construction project.
• Workers required to be protected from all potential risks
of getting injured, and a digital checklist solution is the
key element of the best practice to enhance safety.
• If you want to switch from paper checklists to a digital
solution, consider having an advanced construction
management software that usually come with all the
benefits discussed above and much more.
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10. • Nearly all of the best commissioning validation services
in the UK are now paperless, and are using construction
management software and commissioning
management software to improve quality, efficiency
and safety.
• These checklists are typically pre-loaded with hundreds
of field-specific checklists, ready be used and
customised.
• The software comes with everything you may think you
would need to carry out high-quality inspections in the
most efficient and accurate manner.
• There are ready-to-be-used checklists for all kinds of
general construction activities and tasks as well as
dedicated lists for specialty construction jobs. They also
come with ready-to-modify forms to have personalised
checklists and multiple specialised checkpoint formats.
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