Zurich Construction Solutions
Help drive job site safety, quality and insights with the Zurich Construction Solutions app.
Protecting your employees and getting the job done right the first time is a goal of every construction company. Contractors ranked empowering and involving their employees to help deliver a culture of safety as having the largest impact on improving safety outcomes.1 The Zurich Construction Solutions (ZCS) app helps put that power in the employee’s hand.
1Laquidara-Carr, Donna. “Top Findings From the Safety Management in the Construction Industry 2017 SmartMarketReport.” Dodge Data and Analytics. 31 January 2018.
Why Zurich Construction Solutions?
Many of our construction customers tell us about struggles on job sites related to safety and quality, and our data reflects those concerns. Further conversation has made it apparent they need an easier way to collect and trend data.
We set out to develop a solution that would help mitigate some of the root causes of decreased job site safety and quality work. The ability to report and assign identified issues in real time, confirm proper procedures were followed, provide training and education on known risks, and see job site safety and quality related trends rose to the top of mitigation needs. The Zurich Construction Solutions app was developed to address these priorities and successfully piloted with customers.
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Safety
Quality
Insights
A comprehensive set of tools in one app
Overview
Improving construction safety and quality starts with your employees on the job site adopting a culture of safety. A Dodge Data and Analytics contractor study found that 79% of contractors found job site workers willing to report unsafe conditions.2 The Zurich Construction Solutions app can help empower your employees to act with its observations functionality.
2. “Dodge Safety SmartMarket Report 2017, Dodge Data and Analytics, Accessed 12 August 2020
How Zurich Construction Solutions can help deliver safety, quality and insights.
- Digitally identify and document issues with photos, notes, party who observed and severity of issue.
- Assign issues between internal and external parties.
- Collaborate between parties to resolve an issue.
- Track and send follow-ups on open issues that need to be addressed.
- Know when issues are resolved.
- Sort and filter by status, severity, project and user.
- Create observations leveraging a library of preloaded questions.
- Add your own questions to customize to your job site or company processes.
Overview
Tracking and confirming that safety, program and quality controls are being completed can be difficult on the job site. Add contractors, subcontractors and other vendors to the mix and the difficulty can quickly multiply. Zurich Construction Solutions’ digital forms with QR code access helps simplify this process, helping you drive accountability, safety and quality.
How Zurich Construction Solutions helps deliver safety, quality and insights.
- Eliminate your paper-based forms and collect data in real time through digital forms.
- Utilize form templates or create your own to match your company’s templates.
- Quick and easy form access can help employees remember, follow and complete safety or quality procedures.
- Users do not need to be an employee or have the app to fill out forms when you utilize a form-linked QR code generated through the Zurich Construction Solutions platform.
- Employees, contractors, subcontractors and vendors that do not have the app fill out a web-based version of the form, so you still collect the information in a structured, digital format up front.
Sample form options
- Incident reporting
- Visitor screening questionnaire
- Employee screening questionnaire
- Hot work permit
- Material deliveries
- Daily reporting
- Equipment inspections
- Employee surveys
- Custom created forms
- And much more….
Overview
Seeing an issue trending on your job site? Utilize a toolbox talk – a quick, informal safety meeting held on location, to bring the problem to the forefront of your employees’ attention. Help your workers understand the impact the trending issue has to the project and the correct actions to take to mitigate the risk.
How Zurich Construction Solutions helps deliver safety, quality and insights.
- Leverage one of the preloaded toolbox talks included with the app.
- Create your own toolbox talk to leverage lessons learned within your organization.
- Include notes, suggestions and questions from the discussion via voice dictation or typing.
- Document attendance with photos, notes and signatures.
- Email a copy of the completed safety meeting.
- Create a grouping of toolbox talks for common job site issues and assign to multiple projects to ensure safety meetings are held on these topics.
Overview
Version control for project documents can be difficult to maintain on a job site. Zurich Construction Solutions helps you stay organized and your employees up to date on the latest version of a safety plan, material specification or other documentation.
How Zurich Construction Solutions helps deliver safety, quality and insights.
- Upload, manage and view documents.
- Customize the naming structure of the folders in the file cabinet.
- Only the last version of an uploaded document is accessible and displayed to help maintain version control.
- Control which documents are assigned to which project site.
- Assign and track documents for specific employees or external parties such as subcontractors.
- Create expiration dates for files such as insurance certificates, certifications and permits.
Overview
You’ve gathered the data, now how do you generate insights to help create a safer job site with better work quality? Utilize the dashboards and batch reporting generated from the back-end client website to identify the trends.
How Zurich Construction Solutions helps deliver safety, quality and insights.
- Dashboard views to quickly see the information you want to see.
- See trending and open observations to create transparency and accountability.
- Combine multiple observations into a single report
- Advanced analytics and data visualization capabilities around observations, forms, safety training and toolbox talks available in Pro analytics and dashboard.3
3. The Pro dashboard is available at an additional cost.
Overview
Zurich Construction Risk Engineering’s goal is to help customers identify and mitigate construction-related risks. One way we help our customers is through education and instruction. That’s why we’ve included Zurich Construction RiskTopics and our daily safety calendars as part of the app.
How Zurich Construction Solutions helps deliver safety, quality and insights.
- Zurich Construction RiskTopics address common construction-related activities and risks, providing guidance on mitigating the risks and, often, additional resources on the topic.
- Zurich’s daily safety calendars provide safety tips to users who log into the app on a given day.
Overview
Employees with the right skills and knowledge are better positioned to do quality work more safely on the construction site. Zurich Construction Solutions incorporates a learning management system (LMS) to help you provide training on relevant topics and test employee understanding.
How Zurich Construction Solutions helps deliver safety, quality and insights.
- Create and assign e-training.
- Manage certification expiration dates.
- Utilize multiple content types for training.
- Track results and understanding via quizzes.
- Provide digital completion certificates to employees.