For four days, from 5 to 8 August, CONNECTIN ran a booth at KOREA BUILD. The consultation table was hardly ever empty. Safety managers from large general contractors, owners of specialist subcontractors, and construction people visiting from overseas all came by.
The first thing site people asked about
The questions tended to start in the same place: with the way they work now, the people on site and the records of them do not line up.
- The attendance roster and the people actually working do not match — where do you even start fixing that?
- TBM and safety training happen every day, but nothing is left behind as a record
- How do you confirm that safety instructions actually reached migrant workers?
- What does it take to see several sites at once from head office?
Our answer was not a list of features. We walked through the screens together and showed how records can attach themselves to what a site already does — checking in, briefing, working, closing out the day.
From Korea to sites overseas
We also spent a long time with contractors from India, the Middle East and elsewhere. Multilingual safety communication and identity and qualification checks turned out to matter even more on their sites than here. There was particular interest in being able to show evidence that safety instructions had reached a workforce that does not share a language.
A day on site becomes data, and that data leads to a better decision. What four days at the booth confirmed was how much agreement there is with that direction.
We are working through the enquiries left with us over those four days. If there is something we did not get to at the booth, get in touch any time. CONNECTIN will keep looking for the answers on site.
