HazNode® Safety · Observations
Hazards, near misses and good practice, captured in under a minute from a phone — offline if there is no signal at the back of the site. Every report lands in one record instead of a notebook, a group chat and somebody’s inbox.
What it does
Observation programmes fail when reporting takes too long or the report has nowhere to go. Capture has to be quick, and it has to work where the work is.
Photo, location, done
A photo, a tap to categorise, a sentence if they want to add one. No login gymnastics, no fifteen mandatory fields, and it works offline so a report is never lost because there was no signal at the back of the site.
What you get
A handful of taps from open to submitted
Photo and location captured on the report
Offline capture with automatic sync
Works on the phone people already carry
Not only what went wrong
Positive observations are recorded alongside hazards. A programme that only ever captures problems trains people to associate reporting with trouble, which is exactly how reporting rates collapse.
What you get
Positive and negative observations in one stream
Recorded against the site they relate to
Visible to the people running the site
One view across the whole organisation
Not a book in the site office
Reports land in a single record for the organisation rather than in a notebook, a group chat and somebody’s inbox. What was raised, where, and when is visible in one place.
What you get
One record across every site
Photos and location on the report
Filter by site, type and date
Export when you need to show the record
Sound Familiar?
There is a hazard book in the site office and nobody has written in it since March.
Near misses are discussed verbally and never recorded anywhere.
Reports are split across a notebook, a group chat and somebody’s inbox.
Your only safety metrics are lag indicators — things that already went wrong.
The good work people do never gets recorded, only the failures.
What changes
The earliest signal you get about a site is what workers notice before anything goes wrong. It only reaches you if capturing it takes seconds.
Capture works offline and syncs later, so a report is never lost because there was no coverage at the back of the site.
The conditions behind an incident usually show up as observations first — if there is somewhere to put them.
Every observation across every site in a single record, rather than scattered across notebooks and chat threads.
Common questions
Under a minute, on the phone people already carry: a photo, a tap to categorise, and a sentence if they want to add one. Location is captured on the report.
Yes. Good practice is recorded alongside hazards and near misses in one stream, so reporting is not associated only with trouble.
In one record for the whole organisation, recorded against the site they relate to, filterable by site, type and date, and exportable when you need to show the record.
Yes. HazNode Field, the companion app for iPhone and iPad, records an observation in a handful of taps and works without a signal. Observations can also be recorded in HazNode® from any phone’s browser.
The whole argument for observations is friction. We will show you the capture flow on a phone, offline included, so you can judge whether your crews would use it.
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