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In this blog, we’ll explore what Anvl Workflows are, how they function, and the numerous benefits they bring to the table.
OSHA’s Expanded Reporting Requirements in High-Hazard Industries: Anvl Safety Application to the Rescue
In a significant move to enhance workplace safety, the U.S. Department of Labor has recently announced a final rule that expands the submission requirements for injury and illness data provided by employers in designated high-hazard industries. This new rule, set to...
Quality 4.0: Revolutionizing Industrial Industries for Sustainable Success
In the fast-paced and rapidly evolving landscape of modern industries, maintaining success and remaining competitive requires continuous adaptation and improvement. One of the most significant developments in recent years has been the emergence of Quality 4.0, a...
The Crucial Role of Accurate Metrics and Reporting in Ensuring Quality and Safety in Industrial Industries
In the industrial landscape, quality and safety are paramount concerns that directly impact the success, reputation, and sustainability of businesses. To effectively manage these aspects, accurate metrics and reporting play a pivotal role. Industrial industries...
Optimizing Efficiency in Safety: How The Anvl Connected Worker Safety Platform can Transform Industrial Industries
Effective worker safety practices and operational efficiency are crucial for the success of any organization, especially in industrial industries. With numerous challenges and potential risks involved in these sectors, companies must prioritize the well-being of their...
10 Requirements to Revolutionize Worker Safety Management
In today's fast-paced work environments, ensuring the safety of frontline workers is a top priority for organizations across various industries. However, traditional systems for managing worker safety often come with their fair share of challenges and limitations....
Overcoming the Fear of Technology in Safety & Quality Programs: 10 Tips to Help Frontline Workers Embrace Digital Transformation
Do your frontline workers believe technology is a beneficial tool or an unnecessary nuisance? In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the integration of digital tools and automation has become a necessity for businesses across industrial industries. While...
From Insights to Action: 5 Tips to Make the Most of Your Leading Indicators
In the world of workplace safety, the importance of leading indicators cannot be overstated. These proactive metrics provide valuable insights into potential risks and hazards, allowing organizations to take preventive measures before incidents occur. By monitoring...
Join OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down to Build a Safer Future in Construction
The construction sector continues to grapple with the threat of falls from height. As per the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data from 2021, falls accounted for 378 of the 986 recorded fatalities in the sector. Addressing this persistent issue is paramount to ensure...
Prevent Struck-by Incidents in Construction
Struck-by incidents are the second leading cause of workplace deaths and the leading cause of nonfatal injuries among construction workers [1]. In 2019, there were 170 construction worker deaths and approximately 16,600 nonfatal construction injuries from struck-by...
Introducing Multiple Languages: Enable workers in their primary language
Anvl has grown more global and diverse this past year, expanding into 50 countries! Today, we're thrilled to support our unique customers in their primary language – Offering 100 different language options and counting. Stateside, 1 in 5 Americans does not speak...
Top 10 Safety Improvements Leaders Should Make in 2023
View Infographic Year after year, workers’ hazards become more complex, and the regulatory requirements placed on companies become more strict. As a result, organizations that want to continue to improve workplace safety and compliance can't stand still; they must...
There Are No More Excuses for Managing EHS on Paper
The world's leading organizations are not happy with good enough; they're constantly looking for new ways to innovate, boost productivity and efficiency, and reduce costs. These same companies long ago started taking full advantage of the power of EHS software to...
Taking Safety Home For The Holidays
When we think of the holidays, we imagine time off from work, good food, and quality time with friends and family. Unfortunately, while the holiday season is all those things, it's also one of the busiest times for emergency rooms, fire departments, and emergency...
The Future of Health and Safety Is Holistic
Workplace fatalities have dropped dramatically since the United States passed the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act. In fact, in 1970, the same year the Occupational Health and Safety Administration was established, an average of 38 people were killed daily at...
3 Ways Digital Workflows Enhance Layered Process Audit Outcomes
Layered Process Audits (LPA) are the best management tool to verify that work is performed to standard and process control is in place to ensure quality. The "Layered" in Layered Process Audit means different people at varying levels of the organization conduct...
How Safety Inspections and Action Item Tracking Boost Compliance With OSHA’s General Duty Clause
"That's not an OSHA regulation." If you have managed EHS long enough, you have likely heard that answer when intervening in unsafe work practices or conditions. The diversity of workplaces and their hazards make writing regulations for every scenario impossible. As a...
Paper to Digital Workflows: Hoosier Energy Powers Safety With Anvl
Since 1949, Hoosier Energy has served 18 member distribution cooperatives across Indiana and Illinois. As servicing 1,700 miles of transmission lines safely proved cumbersome, they brought in Anvl to strengthen and optimize their safety operations, improving their...
Anvl Digitizes Cummins Global Safety
INDIANAPOLIS (September 13, 2022) — Anvl announced today, in collaboration with Cummins Inc., the selection of Anvl’s Connected Worker Application as the global solution for frontline worker safety. Building upon North America’s success, the expansion allows Cummins...
Why Getting Workers Involved in Hazard Recognition is Crucial for Overall Workplace Safety
Preventing workplace injuries is the primary goal of any safety and health program. To achieve that goal, an organization must first reduce the number of hazardous activities and conditions. Unfortunately, many organizations fail because they put all the hazard...
From 2 to 93%: Anvl Improves Technician Safety Compliance
From long drives to complex repairs, the role of a Field Service Technician is ever-changing and highly variable. For an industrial equipment supplier, ensuring the safety of their field teams is of the utmost importance. However, with their company’s Task Analysis...
Why Trust is So Crucial For Safety And How to Build it With Your Frontline Workers
The hard truth is that many organizations will never achieve their safety and health goals. They simply do not have the safety culture necessary to make real change. Culture influences everything; it is an invisible force shaping people's actions, attitudes, and...
Introducing Workflow Drilldown Report: Unlock actionable insights from the frontline
The team at Anvl is thrilled to announce a new set of reporting features that give you real-time, actionable insights into projects, processes, assessments, and so much more! Workflow Drilldown Report helps you to Quickly pinpoint and address issues with work Uncover...
Increasing Safety Begins with a Data-Driven Solution
During this age of digital transformation and a shift to move off of paper forms, businesses may feel overwhelmed to digitize every process across multiple systems, and ultimately leadership may not entirely understand how these systems fully operate. With such a big...
Digital Transformation is not as expensive as you may think
To stay competitive and viable in these interesting times, going digital is a necessity rather than a luxury. But aside from the questions of what technology to use and how to implement it, probably the first thing on the mind of most leaders is how much it will cost,...
Go Mobile for Quality Processes
Industry 4.0 is upon us, and companies are at a pivotal moment as more industry leaders lean into these digital solutions. Over the past year, 85% of global industry executives have invested in Connected Worker solutions, a trend that will only continue to experience...
Form Builders for Quality are not as Effective as You May Think
With the onset of Industry 4.0, the push for new technology to automate workflows and improve operational processes is more important now than ever before. Investing in technology to improve product quality for manufacturing and supply chains in this day and age is...
Why Quality Leaders Should Prioritize Digital Transformation in 2022
Digital transformation – it’s such a heavily used phrase by leaders across all departments, but what can it bring to the quality front? In short, it is often underestimated by quality leaders, and can bring more benefits than you may think. Going digital is no longer...
Your Quality Inspections May Not be as Effective As You Think
In a fiercely competitive market, quality is a key indicator for success now, and in the future. It's essential that in order to continue driving success, your processes for quality assurance are state-of-the-art. In particular, quality inspections are meant to ensure...
The Importance of Digital Investments in Supply Chains
Coming into 2022, supply-chain leaders are focused on streamlining their operations to ensure that every process and procedure is as efficient and cost effective as possible. Even with the disruption that COVID has brought, now more than ever is a critical time for...
Going Digital for Safety and Quality Boosts Productivity
Often in a manufacturing business, safety, quality, and productivity are thought of as three separate pillars of a functional company. However, safety, quality, and productivity are inextricably linked. It’s impossible to sacrifice one without sacrificing the others....
3 Ways You can Reimagine Your Safety Processes in 2022
At the beginning of every year, leaders should prioritize finding new ways to reimagine their safety processes to make them more effective, efficient, and ultimately drive safety improvements across a business. Looking forward into the new year, and with the abundance...
How Manufacturing Companies Can Leverage Connected Worker Solutions to Improve Quality
Did you know that less than half of manufacturing companies deploy digital or mobile technologies in their operations to capture and leverage data to help drive improvements? And, one of the most critical benefits of Connected Worker Solutions for manufacturing...
How to Drive Agile Continuous Improvements for your Good Catch Process
Continuous improvement leaders are constantly on the lookout for digital tools that can streamline operations, boost quality and keep their workers safe and engaged. It’s not an easy job, but there are applications that bring solutions that continuous improvement...
Transform Your Near Miss Process with a Connected Worker Platform
Safety is the leading priority for the manufacturing leadership of an organization because of the people. Keeping your people safe and setting them up for success so they can return to their families each night is always the goal. Additionally, manufacturing leaders...
How to Take Your Traditional Behavior-Based Safety Program to the Next Level
Consider how different your workplace would be if you could see ahead to prevent safety hazards with greater speed and precision. Safety on the job is always the top priority, so it’s something everyone in the company needs to take seriously. One valuable tool that...
Four Reasons Why Mobile Solutions are a Key Driver of Digital Transformation
There has been a significant paradigm shift to the manufacturing industry with an increased emphasis on the necessity to keep workers safe, product quality high and operations streamlined. As a result, companies invested in connected workers solutions which made...
Four Benefits of Incorporating Connected Worker Solutions with Visual Literacy
Safety in the workplace can often be overlooked or not taken seriously enough. Every year, more than 5,000 people are killed on the job and more than 2.8 million suffer job-related injuries or illnesses. Safety leadership always strives for continuous improvement in...
It’s Time to Reimagine Your Layered Process Audit
Quality leaders are constantly looking for digital tools that can help them complete their layered process audits (LPAs) as efficiently as possible. The goal of an LPA is to turbo-charge quality and continuous improvement. At the same time, manufacturing companies...
Layered Process Audit Software for Continuous Improvement
In a fiercely competitive market, quality is a key indicator for success now, and in the future. In an earlier blog post, there was considerable discussion about ways that manufacturing leadership can benefit when digital tools for quality can provide significant...