Replies posted by Corey

146 Replies

Andrew Gabb
Helper
Andrew GabbHelper
asked in Ask the community

Assigned training notifications

@Andrew Gabb what are your thoughts on EdApp vs. SC Training as far as appearance, end-user features, and administration?

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Giustina
SafetyCulture Crew
7 days ago
BenGur
BenGurStarter

Colours in Global Response SetsNew

Any chance we can change the colour to ‘no colour’ for the multiple choice responses for specific templates? Thanks,   Rebekah  I think you could just pick “white” (#FFFFFF) which would appear to be no color with the report background being white.

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Simpson Shaw Surveyors Team
13 days ago
James Murray
James MurrayObserver

Archiving inspectionsNew

I would like a “Site” page similar to Assets which shows all activity related to a site - Actions, Heads Up, Inspections, Templates, Issues, Members, Groups, etc.  Of course, the access to each of those pieces of data would still be limited to the settings on each.  

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James Murray
16 days ago
Blake
BlakeObserver

Export templates as PDF or other filesNew

Hi all, I have a workaround for this recommended by the safety culture help team. You can start an inspection and leave it blank, then export it as a PDF file. It's not perfect, but it works okay. I am glad I am not alone with this issue. Really hoping they make this a feature.  That’s what we plan to do in cases where we need to send someone a blank, such as a supplier audit.  We may actually pre-fill some things out for them anyway, so that might be the best option in that scenario.  In a case we just want to view or share the blank but not so they can prepare for an audit, exporting the template as a blank would still be a better solution than creating a fake inspection.

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Corey
Helper
16 days ago
swhite
swhiteLearner

Automatically fill/complete certificates in inspectionsNew

SC Team - any thoughts on an advanced report builder?  It would be great if there was an option to use the current default format or edit in advanced mode to do the things I mentioned, plus as Swhite mentioned, be able to upload a document as a background template where we can then populate the format with the question responses we want.  The current report format is not very pretty, is very lengthy, and is a one-size fits all approach that doesn’t always work.  More customization capabilities have been added, but it’s not nearly enough.This would be great for certificates, training logs, nonconforming reports, supplier audits, product qualification, tags, etc.  

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Corey
Helper
30 days ago
Sean F
Sean FObserver
posted in Ask the community

Voice to text

It would be great if anywhere in the application where there is an open text field you could use a microphone button to dictate the text. You might have your hands full, just want natural flow of language, or want to record faster than typing. That could be useful on text fields in inspections, Action title/description, Issues, etc.

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clairelange
1 month ago
swhite
swhiteLearner

Inspection QR Code Scanner Integration with AssetsNew

Ok, I misunderstood.  It makes sense what you are asking to address.  Maybe I came up with a totally different but also useful addition.

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swhite
1 month ago
Nigel Arnold
Nigel ArnoldStarter

Track whether inspections are duplicated or notNew

Perhaps when starting an inspection, in the background you can check if any user from the same site recently created an inspection from the same template within X minutes (those minutes could be a setting on the template).  There may be things they could actually be allowed to make a new one in 5 minutes and other things that you don’t want more than one created in 30 days.  A message could appear “You created an inspection 2 minutes ago - are you sure you want to start another?” or “User Ben Franklin from the same Atlanta site started an inspection 50 minutes ago - are you sure you want to start another?”

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Corey
Helper
1 month ago
swhite
swhiteLearner

Link any action to an inspectionNew

I love that it knows an action was already assigned to a specific question of the same template when doing an inspection. That avoids adding it again if it’s already been noted for a correction so you don’t duplicate the action.  But I also have seen where an Action was added from an Issue, another inspection of a different template (where there are overlaps in looking at the same area), or standalone.  Being able to “choose another action” on an inspection question to link something that didn’t come from a related inspection of that template would be handy.

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Matt Roche
22 days ago
swhite
swhiteLearner

Inspection QR Code Scanner Integration with AssetsNew

That could be interesting.  Are you suggesting being able to make QR codes not just to inspect using a specific template, but also pre-assign the asset that will be selected in the inspection using the QR code?  For example, the QR code could be Template “Daily Forklift OSHA Inspection” and also add an asset “Forklift 1.”

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swhite
1 month ago
PaulP
PaulPObserver

Customise actions emailsNew

I’ve had several people ask for more details in all emails - Inspection Flagged Question notifications, Actions, Issues.  They want to be able to see what details of the inspection, what the action is, and what the issue is without having to click the link to login to a website or open the app.

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esusatyo
SafetyCulture Crew
1 month ago
Blake
BlakeObserver

Export templates as PDF or other filesNew

We have just run into a scenario where we are considering moving our supplier site audits from a PDF form we made to be in SafetyCulture.  One of the reasons we are not sure if we can do this is that we send a “blank” copy of the PDF form to the supplier ahead of us visiting them on site. This allows them to understand the topics, questions, and scoring so they can be prepared, and they can pre-fill answers so we have an idea of what systems/practices they have in place before we get there.  If we make a template in SafetyCulture, we cannot send them a blank or a topic list without making something separate.  We don’t want them to have access to SafetyCulture for a rare audit, especially when there people might change after those few years of time and because we are the ones doing the actual audit.

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Corey
Helper
16 days ago
Steuart Fotheringham
Steuart FotheringhamObserver

Scheduling view improvementNew

There are ways to connect external calendars such as Google and SharePoint to Outlook. Many scheduling systems download card files to import events into your calendar too, but that would be more manual every time you create or modify a schedule. It would be much more seamless to have the option to connect scheduled inspections you are responsible for automatically to your calendar rather than looking at the SC home page and reminder emails.

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jackihann
SafetyCulture Crew
1 month ago
wbd-danw
wbd-danwObserver

Restricted signature signing in inspectionsNew

That is an interesting idea. We label the signature fields with the title of who needs to sign it, and I’m not sure we often have problems with the wrong person signing.  We also have cases where the signature field is not always used, as it is for random record/practice validation which is not done on every one of that type of record, so we cannot require the field.  It would be neat if you could restrict by user/group (optionally) on signature fields as to whom can sign them, and then perhaps tie a “status/stage” to that signature field.  

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Corey
Helper
2 months ago
CamdenBoss
CamdenBossObserver

Show inspection title on inspection editing pageNew

I agree that editing an inspection should show the inspection name in the top bar so you can see which one you’re on and any vital information you included in the name.  However, since many people forget to update the report naming in their template, it will often be the default (date or date/conducted by).  I would like to see the template name also, along with the inspection report name.

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Corey
Helper
2 months ago
Corey
Helper
CoreyHelper

Export inspections from archiveReleased

That’s great, thanks!I’m curious why there are now two “CSV” options (one labeled as New).  One format seems to have more columns than the other, and the column order/naming is a bit different.

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Divya Konnur
SafetyCulture Crew
2 months ago
Steven
SafetyCulture Crew
StevenSafetyCulture Crew
posted in Ask the community

Feedback invite for new manufacturing sensors

We have built systems (and a couple OEM 3rd party) which monitor the primary manufacturing equipment’s process with the ability to have high/low points, intelligently pair up values to predict specific issues, send out texts and voice alarms, log changes to equipment setpoints, tie to quality data, etc.  We have also purchased sensors for things like predictive maintenance. We have internal databases and software that manages this, so moving all this to SafetyCulture has not been desirable from a feature/customization loss and cost standpoint.  We have considered other sensor applications, but we have reasons we may use different gateways/brokers.  If we could (at a lower cost) send this data or talk to those brokers to push this data ALSO to SafetyCulture, there could be some advantages from reporting and notification standpoints.Ideas for this we have discussed internally include the following (a few of which are already supported sensors):Room temperature and humidity (process stabi

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Steven
SafetyCulture Crew
2 months ago
christina.lord
SafetyCulture Crew
christina.lordSafetyCulture Crew

Tap & go with NFCs for Assets

I also found this one which may be smaller.  Our sites using assets agreed this would be clunky and that QR codes could be a better option for iPads.  I was looking for a way to streamline looking up info or starting an inspection.  If you are about to hop on a forklift and need to do your OSHA inspection, it takes several clicks to unlock the iPad, open the app, click to Inspections, find the template, start the inspection, then select the asset.  If we could quickly jump to the asset’s page, then click to start the inspection template with the asset already selected, that would likely save them a bit of time and feel smoother.Buy ACS ACR1255U-J1 USB Bluetooth NFC Reader Online | GoToTags Store

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Corey
Helper
2 months ago
swhite
swhiteLearner

Automatically fill/complete certificates in inspectionsNew

I am envisioning an option for an “advanced” report builder.  This would be in addition to the “basic” available today, because most of the time that is all you need. Perhaps the “advanced” could allow you to:drag and drop fields wherever you want adjust font size/weight of both the label and value allow removing fields from the page altogether allow toggling to landscape page orientation still have all the options the current report builder has

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Corey
Helper
30 days ago
christina.lord
SafetyCulture Crew
christina.lordSafetyCulture Crew

Tap & go with NFCs for Assets

Have you found a NFC tag reader that connects via Bluetooth or the lightning port?  iPads do not have an NFC chip and cannot support this functionality unfortunately.  We have a site interested in trying it, but we don’t know how to get started due to that issue.

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Corey
Helper
2 months ago
Christina
ChristinaObserver

Restrict to taking photos during inspections (not allowing upload from gallery/library)New

I have been suggesting to sites that they turn on date/time stamping of photos as proof when they were taken. I have also suggested making sure the “save to library” option is off.  We have employees directly tell us if they know the results of an inspection have not changed, they intentionally “pencil-whip” it from their desk and reselect the photos that were saved to their iPhone/iPad from the first time they conducted it.  While in most of the cases they admit this, their reasoning is true, there are some devices/inspections/users where it would be great to be able to restrict this capability.  Most of the time, we do not want to allow uploading from an iPad an already saved photo.  

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K
1 day ago
swhite
swhiteLearner

Automatically fill/complete certificates in inspectionsNew

I don’t have the exact same need, but a similar one that could be accomplished the same way.  Your “certificate” would be a custom report in my view.  We have use cases where I am hesitant to switch over to SafetyCulture because the traditional report format is not desirable for either of them.  In one case, we have a “tag” with some of the key details with a pretty, landscaped, single-page which is in a distant-visible very custom layout.  The SC reports cannot be customized with regards to layout of the fields, fonts, colors, etc.  In another situation, we have a multi-page report, but the questions/values are laid out to make it easy to find key information and use up the full page, also in landscape.

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Corey
Helper
30 days ago
Jason_Webster
Jason_WebsterObserver

Assets - Display Line Details and Include in SearchesNew

This has been an issue for us as well.  We have an enterprise asset / work order management system that gives each asset a unique ID.  But for easy recognition of what equipment it actually is, those which are added to SafetyCulture have both the internal site’s local name/ID and the enterprise ID appended into the ID field.  That allows for easy recognition when selected during inspections.  It would be much better if the field showed the asset name and ID after it was selected.For example, they may have Clamp Truck 1 (ID = 10208), Clamp Truck 2 (ID = 10209), Clamp Truck 3 (ID = 10210), Fork Lift 4 (ID = 15687), and Fork Lift 5 (ID = 10212).  To know which one it is in SafetyCulture, we setup the IDs as 1 Clamps - 10208, 2 Clamps - 10209, 3 Clamps - 10210, 4 Forks - 15687, 5 Forks - 10212.  We would not have to do that if it showed the ID and the Display Name.  Once we put together integrations, this will cause us to be very consistent and parse, but it would be easier to not need to.

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Amanda
6 days ago
Corey
Helper
CoreyHelper

Make Reporting Issues Faster and More InformingNew

It is great that we can now require Site, require media, and require certain questions. It’s also great that we can add Actions to Issues.  That covers some really important items from my list of desires!We want reporting Issues to remain easy to use, fast to report, provide immediate notifications, and give collaborators and the reporter a feedback loop.  However, Issues needs more work to scale it up for enterprise use.Most importantPer category question, provide the ability to select a “global response set” or to upload a CSV file for multiple choice questions.  The global response would allow for larger, flexible lists which might be updated through an integration. The CSV option allows for quickly adding large lists or making changes.  Site-specific lists would be most ideal, such as employee names, rooms, products, etc. Category option to automatically build the “Title” using selected category questions. This avoids forgetting to put certain things in the Title, having to duplica

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Corey
Helper
3 months ago
Corey
Helper
CoreyHelper

Require "Site" in actions + bulk assign actions to sitesNew

That would be great.  It’s pretty annoying that people forget to add Site, therefore, many Actions are only visible to the creator and the person assigned to it, rather than everyone at the site.  Worse that when I catch these, I have to open the actions one by one and add the site, as the bulk selection bar does not have “assign site” as an option.  As I mentioned, it would be important that “personal” action was an option.  Although I may require Site for everyone, there are use cases where you would not want that if you create actions for things only you are doing yourself and don’t need others (besides Admins) to see.

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Corey
Helper
3 months ago
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