Safety App Of Week
April 28, 2014 No Comments
Below is this week’s “Safety App of the Week“. Every Monday we publish an article that reviews and rates a new workplace safety app. Our testing is done on Apple iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3s. We rate each app from ♥ to ♥♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥♥ is the best). Prior app of the week articles are archived here.
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Risk Assessment
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Official Description
“This training has been developed to give you the basic skills for carrying out a workplace risk assessment in a social housing workplace setting. By the end of the e-learning you will have a greater understanding of:-
What is risk assessment?
Types of risk found in Social Housing
Step by step approach to risk assessment.
Risk cycle
Test of learning“1
Thumbs Up
- cost is free
- no registration or sign in required
- training is self-paced
- comprehensive 30-minute video training program
- excellent content
- terrific picture and audio quality
- quiz at the end of the training video
- can be used off-line
Thumbs Down
- at 36MB this download is larger then most
- it would be nice to have a “full screen” mode so the training video would be easier to see
- we’d like to see a “manufacturing” section added to the “Spot The Hazard” exercise
Overall Rating
- iPad / iPhone – ♥♥♥♥
- Android – not available
- this app provides a good risk assessment review for experienced safety professionals; and an excellent introduction to risk assessment for safety students, supervisors and safety committee members
¹ Descriptions courtesy of iTunes
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