Collaborating for Safety
A Letter from the CEO:
Bringing organizations together to share information can be a challenge. There are usually concerns around sharing data that could be considered proprietary, making sure that the right messaging is portrayed and having the information approved at the right level before it is shared. After years in the corporate world, as well as running two companies, I know and understand these concerns in a very real way. That said, at this unprecedented time in the world's history as we face a worldwide pandemic, we are calling on all Safety Leaders to put that aside and focus on speed of sharing over perfection. To facilitate this, we are launching safetyiQ with the goal of building the world’s largest collection of Occupational Health & Safety expertise, and making it available for free for every organization to help keep their employees safe.
We believe that no company should have to navigate these risks alone
It is critical for the Occupational Health & Safety community to collaborate on how to help employees work safely in this new environment. This is very urgent for organizations that are continuing to operate in physical facilities during this pandemic, and are changing their safe work practices almost daily as they re-learn how to operate with this new health threat lurking in their workplace. It is also necessary for those that are trying to transition into a remote working model, never having operated that way before. For organizations who have traditionally not placed health and safety as a core value in their organization, they will now have to learn how they will safely bring everyone back to their workplace in a post-pandemic era, when everyone is concerned that their desk, the coffee pot, or the pen they get from the supply closet could be a risk.
We have the opportunity to figure out how to manage these risks together. As a free, light version of our enterprise Expertise Management platform, safetyiQ facilitates the sharing of best practices and lessons learned. Within this online community, each member’s areas of expertise will be generated and made visible so others can tap their experience for help.
Whether you are a Health & Safety professional at a construction company, a supervisor in an industrial facility, the owner of a small business or an employee in an office, we are all concerned about our colleagues' physical and mental health. We at totaliQ see this online community as our unique way to help all of you achieve this goal, because Health & Safety is NOT proprietary.
Andrew Sinclair, Founder and CEO