SAFETY and WAREHOUSE
IBT Launches Virtual Safety Manager
Jun 12, 2009 - 11:10:38 AM

Logon to www.virtualsafetymanager.com and see the possible future of health and safety management at your job site.

Virtual Safety Manager (VSM) from IBT is for companies large and small. It gives them the comprehensive, thorough, compliant-positive and effective health and safety programs and administration that can lead to safer workers, fewer worksite accidents, reduced workers comp claims and reduced insurance premiums.

"We built in a lot of functionality – and also a lot of flexibility," IBT Safety's Tom Smith, the man behind the plan, explains. "We chose to develop a program that will work for companies with existing full time safety managers and work equally well for companies who have health and safety as just one part of an individual’s job."

"Virtual Safety Manager bundles manual preparation, training programs, reporting, and tracking of individual workers, in to one intuitive, easy-to-use package. It works – and it is really very good. Adopting the VSM reflects corporate leadership and commitment to health and safety. We think the users will definitely like the VSM and will use it to improve their health and safety programs."

The VSM works in three major areas. The first is to provide administrative controls over safety issues. This means that the VSM has:

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  Comprehensive safety programs.
• Written policies and procedures.
• Assurance that safety programs and supporting documents always up-to-date.
• Record retention and performance tracking.
• MSDS access and management.
• Greater employee accountability for safe work and for safety materials.
• Minimized potential for OSHA citations and subsequent fines.

The second area of effectiveness is that VSM brings a sense of structure to the safe operations of your organization. This means that the VSM:

• Helps identify potential worksite hazards.
• Improves regulatory compliance.
• Informs employees of the importance of safety.
• Conducts a safety knowledge assessment.
• Makes sure that safety never goes to the "back burner".
• Saves employee time surfing the internet for information.
• Supports development and growth of a safety culture.
• Assures a systematic approach to safety.
• Gives uniformity of safety program at multiple locations.
• Makes sure that workers become more aware of worksite hazards.

The final critical area that the VSM addresses is the major one of employee training. With VSM, your safety training program:

• Assures employee competency in subjects studied.
• Prescribes employee specific training curriculum.
• Assures that employees are trained about specific hazard exposures.
• Establishes individual employee training schedules and eliminates missed training sessions.
• Identifies areas where additional training is needed.
• Creates training documentation.
• Is organized around safety training modules so that essential safety issues are emphasized.
• Has a training agenda based on regulatory requirements – not available time.

The IBT Virtual Safety Manager (VSM) is offered on a very reasonably priced paid subscription basis. It is even more reasonably priced during our introductory offer period.

To learn more about how the VSM works – how little it will cost your organization – and all the ways it can save you money while increasing the health and safety of your operations, check out www.virtualsafetymanager.com or email Tom Smith.