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Tips to Prepare for the Future of Work
Even when the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, it's unlikely that we're going to completely return to the way things once were. It's estimated that nearly 70 percent of the world's workforce - and about 80 percent of all employers - are in areas of the world where...
2021: Entering the Future of Work
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a major seismic shift in ideas of how work can and should be done. As it swept across the globe, it forced people to change the way work is viewed. Resilient businesses took hold of digital innovation to get jobs done remotely. Shop...
Innovation in Construction: See Significant ROI
When done correctly, implementing innovative technologies in construction can help drive business performance. And a byproduct of driving business performance is unquestionably increasing return on investment (ROI). In this post, we'll continue to focus on the...
Innovation in Construction: Drive Culture Change
How does digital innovation drive culture change within an organization? Sometimes culture change can take a long time to grow—too long to wait for the benefits of digital innovation in construction safety. So, how can digital solutions be applied effectively while...
Innovation in Construction: Invest in Your Workers
Construction is big business, but the industry seems resistant to change. It's increasingly worrisome if the industry is to keep pace with demand in coming decades. Globally, the construction industry faces challenges that were not envisioned even 10 years ago. How...
Technology Can Drive Behavior Change
Businesses can power their digital transformation by implementing a people-first approach to behavior change. The bottom line for success in any company is people—all of your people, at every level of the company. When you implement a new approach with your workers’...
7 Tips to Be an Effective Safety Leader
Sometimes there is a negative stigma attached to the title of “safety leader”. They feel like their safety leadership is constantly waiting for someone to make a mistake and call them out on it. Nobody wants to be the “bad guy” when safety procedures aren’t properly...
How to Implement Risk Management
It seems like a simple concept, but it's not always easy to implement a robust risk management strategy. We discussed the link between risk management and workers compensation in our first post of this series. In this post, we'll provide actionable insight on how to...
The Relationship Between Risk Management and Workers Compensation
While every business strives for a zero-incident environment, the fact is, accidents are bound to happen sooner or later. But the good news is that the frequency and severity of these incidents can be greatly reduced over time by better understanding the nature of...
Sustainable Digital Transformation with a People-First Approach
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 most essential question is: who is going to implement those...
Connected Workers and Smart Manufacturing
When we speak of the term "smart manufacturing," it's always referring to a shift toward implementing digital technologies - a shift toward Industry 4.0 - to help a business boost its performance and, ideally, its bottom line. And while the end goal is a more...
Protecting Workers from Winter Weather
As temperatures drop this season, employers must recognize and prevent safety risks their workers face when working in cold environments. Workers can face cold stress whenever external temperatures drive down someone’s internal body temperature to unhealthy levels....
Enabling the Connected Worker
Today's Connected Worker Let's start by talking about just how relevant connected workers are in today's world and just what a connected worker is. In a nutshell, a connected worker is one that has adopted a digital transformation and utilizes wearable technology,...
ROI of Total Worker Health
Why should companies invest in the health of their employees? In short, health impacts safety. Companies may not realize how work can have a direct impact on the health of their workers' lives. This article outlines why companies need to make investments in Total...
Total Worker Health: Mental Health
Are you making mental health a priority in the workplace? With companies starting to focus on the concept of Total Worker Health (TWH), it is crucial to consider mental health within this holistic view of employee wellbeing. Not only does caring for an employee's full...
Total Worker Health
What is Total Worker Health (TWH)? Total Worker Health (TWH) is a holistic view of employee health. TWH, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), is a fundamental method of protecting workers. Controls are designed to eliminate...
The History of Paper Processes: How Far Have We Come?
Some habits are hard to break, especially when they’ve been going on for hundreds of years. Take paper, for instance. It’s been the foundation of business and manufacturing documentation since the beginning. And although many current manufacturing processes leverage...
Cost of a Lost Work Day: The ROI of Safety
Cost of a Lost Work Day Unintentional accidents are at an all-time high and are presently the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. And that means that workplace injuries need to be protected against at all costs: not only is it financially...
How to Protect Mobile and Lone Workers
Workplace safety is the most important thing managers need to consider, but how is workplace safety managed for mobile workers and lone workers who work in remote environments? Thousands of lone workers and mobile workers travel to remote job sites every day,...
Tips for Reducing Cost of Quality (COQ)
Quality is everything these days, as consumers aren't looking for short-lived or poor solutions - they want something that meets their needs both in the near-term and the long-term. It's why it's important to consider the total cost of quality, or COQ, which is...
How Quality-Focused Software Supports Frontline Training
In today’s digital world, quality management has evolved into paperless processes. Taking a digital approach and investing in a quality-focused software, like Anvl’s, not only yields high ROI but also supports the frontline worker throughout the process with...
Keys to Successful Digital Transformation in Safety and Quality Operations
Digital Transformation is a heavily used phrase. Simply put, it is a shift to utilizing technology in order to boost business performance. Seems like an easy concept right? Often, however, it is overlooked, or not given the attention it needs in order to be...
What Sets Anvl Apart: Digital Permitting
Work permits are important and required for a reason. They ensure that your workers are performing the job in the safest manner possible, and serve as a guide to prevent violations or injury. Paper work permits have been the go-to for decades. It’s considered...
Digital Transformation is Already in Your Pocket
Many businesses have already taken their first steps at digital transformation in a variety of ways. However, there is still a great need to make digital transformation a proactive development within a business rather than seeing it as a checkbox on a list of “to-do”...
Leveraging Technology in Manufacturing through a COVID-19 Lens
COVID-19 has posed many risks to a variety of industries and businesses. Manufacturing employees, in particular, suffer a higher risk during pandemic conditions because they are considered essential, which puts them in the path of virus transmission. In this article,...
ROI for Quality Management
Though all businesses strive to improve quality, learning new ways to effectively manage it is often overlooked or shrugged off as an additional, and perhaps even an unnecessary expense. While companies may state and communicate its importance and their commitment to...
Utilize Digital Innovation for In-the-Moment Training and Worker Engagement
Evolution of Training and Engagement Methods Older generations are aging out of the skilled trade workforce, with 31 million jobs expected to be vacant due to retirees by the end of 2020. However, after COVID-19, the nation has seen a surge in early retirement....
Taking Small Steps for Successful Digital Transformation
So you've made the decision to digitally transform your company and make the transition to go from paper operations to digitization. If you do it right, it's going to be a great move that continues to ensure you're competitive in your respective market in the...
How Employee Safety Behavior Impacts ROI
The US Department of Labor notes that a company who invests in the safety of their workers will see a reduction in fatalities, injuries, and illnesses. By making this investment, employers can expect company savings such as lower workers' compensation costs and...
Taking the Dual-Track Approach to Digital Transformation
The drive for digital transformation is not going away, nor is it slowing. In fact, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the process as face-to-face business operations are being digitally transformed through a growing digitally connected and remote workforce. A new...
Cost of a Lost Work Day: Business Reputation
With Anvl’s prioritization on workplace safety, we have developed a blog series that investigates the various costs of a workplace accident or injury. These fall into two categories: those that incur direct costs you can account for; and, indirect costs that aren’t...
Workplace Safety: A Psychological Approach, Part Two
A Call to Leadership After reading the first article in this series, it is evident that psychological wellbeing is essential to prioritize in any business. But, it may be difficult to find a good place to begin an effort to improve on emphasizing the importance of...
The ROI for Going Paperless
Although making the paper-to-digital transformation may seem expensive and daunting—particularly in manufacturing where documentation is an integral part of day-to-day work—going paperless can actually turn an impressive ROI in terms of efficiency, reliability,...
The Collaboration Between Safety, Quality and Operations
Many companies seem to mentally compartmentalize safety, quality and operations into separate areas. Those in charge of safety in the plant may connect with management about potential hazards, but they may not connect daily with those in charge of quality control or...
Workplace Safety: A Psychological Approach, Part One
Why Psychological Safety is Important at Work When I say the phrase “safety at work,” what is it the first thing that pops into your mind? Is it risk prevention? Maybe you are thinking about being confident that the machinery you are about to use is up-to-date...
Cost of a Disengaged Worker
Disengaged workers cost businesses a lot more than they might realize. Those employees are what the Gallup organization defines as “unhappy and unproductive at work and liable to spread negativity to coworkers.” Their loss of productivity, quality defects, and other...
How Paperless Manufacturing Supports a Company’s Safety, Quality and Operations Goals
The idea of a paperless workplace is older than the first Star Wars movie (a little older, actually—an article called “The Office of the Future” appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek in 1975 touting paperless operations). Yet, it has taken manufacturers much longer to...
Increase Worker Safety in the Mining Industry
Mining is one of the world’s most dangerous industries. Workers face life-threatening hazards daily, both above and below ground. Mining companies have turned to digital transformation and the latest developments in machine automation, artificial intelligence, machine...
Cost of a Lost Work Day: What You Can Do Right Now to Prevent it
It's common for many businesses, especially those in high-risk industries, to develop stringent safety guidelines that they expect their workers to follow. These guidelines are designed to minimize the risk of workplace injury...
Digital Innovation: Take Your Digital Transformation Goals One Step Further
There's digital transformation... and then there's digital innovation. There's no question that going digital has its benefits, and usually these benefits are realized in terms of improved productivity and a greater overall return on investment (ROI). However, there's...