Peter Johnson President RiskNet Worldwide Monitoring workplace safety compliance is an activity that traditionally has been fraught with paperwork and costly overhead. To comply with government regulations and insurance policies, large organizations have to employ full-time auditors, sometimes dozens of them, to ensure compliance with safety procedures and regulations. This results in extra costs for personnel who have to wade through cumbersome, time-consuming and inefficient paper processes. The problem is exacerbated in industries that are geographically dispersed, such as hotel chains or large manufacturing companies with plants in different cities. To make Safety Forum an even more attractive product, RiskNet worked with STEP Technology to enhance Safety Forum with a Windows CE-based solution that extends RiskNet's existing extranet application.
Customers are already excited about the potential benefits.
We think the Windows CE-based solution is a very important development in our growth and our company's success. It's going to help sell our service because of the convenience, cost-cutting, paper reduction, and other benefits it will bring to our customers. RiskNet was formed in 1997 after Johnson and other employees of Aon noticed a need for an effective solution for workplace safety compliance in businesses that had to monitor multiple outlets or facilities, such as hotels, fast-food chains, and manufacturing operations. Initially, they worked within Aon on a fax-based service that sent companies, through a subscription process, the informational documents, surveys, and audits they needed to comply with regulations in their particular business. The service took off quickly.