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SAFETY

Pre-Task Planning Goes Portable Tool Safety

Rosendin Electric’s portable cutting tool policy poster
from Paper to iPad was designed to provide information on how to
Today, Rosendin Electric is taking the Pre-Task Plan properly use and store the tools, and to help prevent
to the electronic world. The PTP is making its new injuries to our employees. Utilizing QR codes on the
home on the iPad as an application. Using PDF poster, training videos of how to use the tool out in
software the new PTP application features speech to the field can be accessed using a cell phone or iPad
text, permits, tool training, and signatures all at your by simply scanning the QR code next to the tool you
fingertips. So, how do these features help the user? want to use.

• Speech to Text: No worries over spelling errors. The poster is very easy to use:
Writing the PTP and communication to the crew
can occur at the same time. • Download

• PTP Accessibility: The completed PTP can be the APP “QR
sent to a wireless printer or stored in the cloud. Code Reader &
Storing it in the cloud allows project management/ Scanner” from
safety to view from anywhere. iTunes or other
provider to your
• Permits: If a crew is conducting confined space mobile device.
entry, electrical and or non-electrical hot work,
excavation etc. these items are all available at • Open the APP
the touch of your fingers instead of spending time and scan the
searching around. QR code for the

• Tool Training: New employees are always tool you intend
to train on and
arriving and need tool training. One click and an watch the video
employee now knows how to safely use a tool. for instructional
use.
Overall, the benefit of using an electronic PTP will
provide the user a safety and production tool at the
tip of their fingers, Outcomes of the electronic PTP
will provide easy accessibility, waste reduction, and
increased quality of Pre-task Planning.

22 The Feeder | Q3 2017