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Mobile Health and Safety Management For Rural People
| Organisation: | OneSide |
| Grant Type: | Agribusiness Innovation Grant |
| Grant Number: | A16015 |
| Grant Amount: | $50,000 |
Recent updates to New Zealand's health and safety laws have put the responsibility for safety on everyone. OneSide has launched an innovative new system to save lives in the rural community. Everyone needs to be engaged, and everyone needs to be involved. Achieving this with paper is impossible and creates an administrative barrier between people and safety.
OneSide has harnessed the power of technology to solve this problem. Farmers that use OneSide have a virtual boundary around their farm called a 'geofence'. Within the geofence is a risk register, organised as pins on a map. Behind the pins is information on each risk, and what is required to stay safe.
Anyone that arrives at an OneSide farm, whether they're visitors or employees, are prompted by the mobile app to review any new risks and sign in. The risk map is always available and anyone can report new risks right when they see them – in real time. OneSide uses smart location detection technology which means the GPS is used, but the battery is not drained. OneSide also has full offline capability, meaning it is suitable for everyone, no matter where you are in New Zealand.
Breathing life into OneSide has required a coordinated collaboration with other great Kiwi innovators including a successful R&D project with Jade, a leader in NZ software development, and many other local businesses. While other health and safety systems focus on forms and compliance, OneSide is focussed on the user, and keeping people safe – which is what's most important.