A Guide to Construction Risk Assessment

Construction risk assessment is a real challenge as part of an Occupational Safety and Health Administration role. There are over 4,500 work related fatalities in the United States every year. So, you would think that the days of pen and paper to manage risk, safety and health are gone? Well, they are for most industries. However, the construction industry has been slow to change towards online digitization. This can be part of the reason why the industry has a poor productivity record. Relying on spreadsheets, pen and paper makes it difficult to keep track of everything. The loss of transparency of the building process happens when all the information required is not accessible all in one place.

In a modern business, using paper to manage business processes and deliverables like risk management reports, material and equipment procurement, scheduling, drawings and plans, as well as equipment logs and daily progress reports is not the most efficient way to manage that side of a construction business. Moving towards digitization, gives the business more consistent, better outcomes. It gives everyone involved transparent access to information sharing. Without this access, all stakeholders can work from a different version of the truth. This can cause misunderstandings, disagreements, mistakes and delays.

Using paper makes it difficult to capture real data for analysis. This can be crucial to your budget, and goods and services procurement. And, it puts the project and your business at risk. In an interconnected world, risk assessment is an area the industry has not yet embraced.

Construction work is high risk, so risk assessments are fundamental to the construction process. While using software to complete online risk assessments should be a normal part of the process, the industry is stuck in the past. Using paper-based methods is time consuming, costly and put the project and your business at greater risk. Surely, you are already busy enough dealing with the day-to-day operations out on the road. Does paperwork get pushed aside for more important things? Risk assessment software can help you remain competitive, and save you money and time. It can value-add to your business.

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Project Solution Software for the Construction Industry

RaporPM is bringing new efficiencies to the Construction and Engineering Industries. Our cloud-based construction project management software provides transparency and control from the moment a project is conceived through close-out, handover and operations. 

At RaptorPM, we understand that software solutions that enables an integrated project management 
approach are vital to a construction company’s success.

That’s why leading construction companies across the globe rely on us to provide collaboration 
and productivity tools for all stages of the construction project life cycle

 

The benefits of construction project management:

• Streamline all processes and procedures
• Benefit from improved operational efficiencies across all units
• Enhance project communication and task turnaround time
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  Helps project managers ensure that live projects stay profitable
• 24/7 access to key information via dashboards
• Minimize margin erosion by controlling scope changes and associated costs
• Easy to use workflows for managing change orders, subcontracts and PO's
• Eliminate the time spent accessing and retrieving documents or paperwork
• A suite of software solutions that reflect real world construction workflows and processes for profitable projects

 



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Project Controls from RaptorPM

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Project Controls from RaptorPM

The term “project management” has a wide and varied meaning, depending on what role different people or organizations play. Whereas the term “project control” has a more definitive meaning around how the project manager controls deviations from the original project plan.

In project language, Project controls is the ability to gather data which is then used to analyse, predict, understand and influence the timing and costings of a project. The data and information is communicated in a format (usually software) that assists in the effective management and decision making process by the project team.

At RaptorPM, project management delivery is at the core of our business, and our primary goal is delivering solutions that meets the needs of our customers during every stage of the construction process.

We understand that your enterprise invests heavily in projects every year - investments that begin at the research phase, proceeding to investment in resources, in time and of course fiscal investment. These project investments are the engines of change driving your business towards your business vision, accomplishing your strategy. It is fundamental to business strategic success therefore - and financial success too - that these engines are finely tuned. Projects demand rigorous and stable project controls in place in order to run smoothly, on schedule and in budget. Every enterprise works hard to maximize their return on investment. RaptorPM has proven to be a key differentiator, elevating return on investment for enterprises everywhere that reap abundant benefits from an impressive array of project control features designed by industry professionals for industry professionals.

Raptor’s dynamic project management and project control platform provides a single powerful modular portal for all PM tasks and enhances project managers everywhere by assimilating detailed project data and equipping PMs with insightful tools and in depth reports. In addition, Raptor’s robust solution automates key functions and processes to assist coordination of important tasks, giving more productive time back to the PM. Your organisation can choose one or more of several modules from our suite of modules designed to hone in and focus on delivering cost benefit for up five major phases within the project control life-cycle.

Your organisation requires the most cost effective solution geared for high performance. These days using spreadsheets and various disjointed unintegrated software to manage projects is just not efficient or effective; in fact, it tends to cost more money through wasted or duplicated effort, delays due to poor communication and no foresight of slippage along with constrained reporting across too many sources of data. Too many enterprises inadvertently sacrifice performance, efficiency and overall success by using tools that are just not up to the job.

Raptors Project Management platform sets you up for success with the comprehensive tracking of schedules, tasks, costs, resources and a diverse range of project variables. It can create Work Breakdown Structures and measure their delivery, with a specialized slippage view to run models and see revised timelines based on various scenarios that can be manipulated. The platform is broken down into standalone functions: Estimation, Risk Management, Quality and Safety, Scheduling Interface, Work Flow and Reporting. 

Some of the benefits our many clients have been reporting are:

• Scope management workflows processing complex requirements into logical work breakdown structures components assists businesses in realistic and pragmatic scheduling.
• Configuring estimation processes according to your estimation model and adjust to user norms means more reliable estimates and less contingency budget being required.
• Compiling and consolidating risk assessments and identifying phases of higher risk directs influences the validity of the schedule and improves communication.
• Increase cross functional communication within your organisation by sharing relevant data with automated notifications and reminders as well as detailed reporting.
• Projects have increased protection from schedule blowouts by syncing the estimation model with safety models and risk assessments.
• Ability to track man-hours and schedule against a baseline, verify impacts of change against the scope or timeline, avoid duplicate work and be able to model resource requirements against the schedule.
• Leverage your data assets to provide customized detailed reporting.

Raptors multi-arm project control platform is a cloud based software as a service (SaaS) offering, enabling you to save on infrastructure costs, data center rental costs and resource expenses to handle performance and monitoring, all the while maintaining full browser-based access to your data regardless of whether you are working at your office or at a client site.

With such a powerful project control system waiting to keep your projects directed to success, Raptor Project Control could be working for your project managers today to realize the value of your investment in projects from the short to the long term.

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RaptorPM Project Delivery Solutions

secure, scalable project management platform, bringing together project management, risk management, scheduling and workflow management and collaboration tools that allows users to deliver on their projects without hampering their productivity. PM managers, contractors, sub-contractors, partners, clients and anyone involved can easily track project progress, communicate the data and contribute to project success.

The combination of our RaptorPM software and experienced project management team enables AEC organizations to deliver 24/7 real-time project control and visibility across all projects across all locations. RaptorPM suite of modules are highly configurable to each customer’s specific business processes.

We help move AEC industries forward.

Whether it is an oil and gas project, decommissioning a plant or building a power station, using RaptorPM allows the user to connect and engage to make a meaningful contribution to project success. Project progress is not just clarified, it’s accelerated. AEC organizations of all sizes, across the globe already rely on RaptorPM to help engage their community of project users and move their business forward.

RaptorPM is headquartered in Ireland with local offices in the UK, Australia and USA.

Construction and AEC Project management software Raptorpm

Construction and AEC Project management software Raptorpm