Kier Group improves data-driven HSE reporting with Novade

Kier Group plc leveraged Novadeโ€™s construction HSE software to improve improve data-driven reporting as well as maintain a greater safety culture on multiple projects in the UK.

Kier is a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group. Health, safety and wellbeing is at the centre of its culture. To further enhance their safety culture, Kier Group leveraged Novade’s Safety-HSE module to digitise Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) assurance processes.

4,000+ users
950+ projects
120+ form templates
15,000+ inspections and audits completed

Overview

Project
  • Over 950 projects
Goals
  • Mobile platform
  • Customisable forms
  • Simplifying complex processes
  • A central database that stores all HSE data โ€“ accidents, inspections and audits - allowing management teams to have an overview of all HSE data in one place
  • Consistent reporting of data across the organisation
Challenges
  • Complex hierarchy with different needs in organisation
  • Usage of multiple systems over various projects with little or no configuration
  • Few resources to manage processes
  • Huge amount of legacy data which needs to be accessed easily โ€“ 300,000 incident and inspection records from 10,000 users
  • Difficulty in analysing data due to different systems used
Contractors
  • Kier
Solutions
  • Novade Safety-HSE
Outcomes
  • Over 4,000 active users
  • Creation of more than 120 form templates
  • Approximately 2,000 incidents raised
  • Started on 1,000 investigations
  • Generated 10,000 actions
  • Completion of over 15,000 inspections and audits
Benefits

โ€ข Digitised SHE assurance processes with configurable forms simplifying more than 7 processes
โ€ข Users mastered Novade's construction management software with over 18 top-level admins trained by the Novade team
โ€ข Reduced paperwork
โ€ข Real-time access to information and consistent data from any device anytime, anywhere
โ€ข Drove improved HSE compliance
โ€ข Improvement in workplace process time
โ€ข Leveraged data and gained insights on trends and patterns on all levels
โ€ข Adopted an iterative approach to process design and workflow
โ€ข Received intensive feedback, training and support from Novade's digital consultants

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Data-driven HSE culture

Kier is a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group. Health, safety and wellbeing is at the centre of its culture. To further enhance their safety culture, Kier Group leveraged Novade’s Safety-HSE module to digitise Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) assurance processes and consolidate site data to facilitate a more-informed decision-making process.

This led to a significant improvement in health and safety reporting consistency and compliance within the business.

What they say

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โ€œTechnology assisted the team to better perform their day-to-day work. It greatly improved our productivity and enabled us to achieve good results.โ€

- Jean Jacques Largent, Project Director, Colas Rail

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โ€œNovade was used in Colas Rail at every level of supervision. Once we uploaded a report in Novade, all our supervisors could see what was reported.โ€

- Krisna Aditya, Site Engineer, Colas Rail

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โ€œNovade was very useful because the project required us to be mobile and move to various locations. The paperless process certainly saved us a lot of time.โ€

- Syahrul Mawardi, HSE Department, Colas Rail

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