Virtually every industry has been affected by the explosion of web and mobile technology. Whether that effect is positive or negative for a business largely depends on how well the enterprise adapts to the evolving technological landscape.

Positive outcomes are possible when technology is embraced as a way to gain advantages over competitors. The old ways of doing business often aren’t the best ways anymore, and it pays to realize that.

Safety audits and inspections are a clear example of how web and mobile technology can be used to help your organization improve performance. Using mobile inspection software such as The Checker Software, you can:

• Conduct audits or inspections on any internet-connected computer, tablet, or smartphone.
• Access hundreds of pre-designed mobile inspection checklists or easily customize checklists for your specific assets.
• Immediately close the loop between audit/inspection results and remedial action.
• Automatically archive results.
• Use dashboards, analytics, reports, and administration tools to instantly see what’s really going on and to identify continuous improvement opportunities.

Inspection software with capabilities such as The Checker Software allows you to take control of all aspects of inspecting—the actual inspection, the documentation, the necessary action steps in response to the inspection results, and constant monitoring of the process. The benefits of this control include:

• Increased process efficiency.
• Instant communication.
• Greater accountability.
• Quick identification and correction of problems.
• Easier, more-effective administration.
• Availability of valuable data for decision-making.

We have little doubt that these cost-saving, productivity-increasing benefits will eventually compel the majority of companies to move toward mobile solutions for their safety inspection processes. That’s why for the past several years, we’ve been focusing on developing The Checker Software—a natural evolution from The Checker inspection checklist books we’ve been producing for the past 15 years.

We’re definitely not going to stop producing those books. We know that mobile software isn’t practical yet for some organizations and in certain industries, and may never be in some cases. We also know that our checklist books have consistently provided high value to our customers, earning their reputation as the best equipment and vehicle checklists on the market. We have no desire to stop offering them.

However, we also see the “future” of inspection processes, and that “future” is already here.

The Checker Software, which is offered on the cloud, serves as evidence that the technology exists now to not only increase the efficiency of the inspection processes you’re already doing but to get more business value from them.  (Even if you’re not ready to move away from paper inspection checklists, you can still gain the advantages The Checker Software by keying in the information.)