The document outlines eight ways that checklists enhance construction safety, emphasizing the transition from manual to digital checklists. Digital checklists improve project management by allowing for customized templates, real-time data access, smoother collaboration, and reduced paperwork, ultimately leading to better safety outcomes. Construction management software further enhances these benefits by providing pre-loaded checklists tailored to various construction tasks.

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
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
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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