Mobile Mini offers pathway to a safer workplace

[WITH A NETWORK of 16 site locations nationwide, over 40,000 units and supplying over 17,000 customers, Mobile Mini offers the largest UK-wide provision of site accommodation and secure storage solutions.

Transporting and lifting containers, undertaking repair, fabrication and fittings, alongside welding and joinery all demand one thing – the highest possible standards of operational excellence.

Mobile Mini is committed – both to its employees and to be the safest in its industry – with a goal of sending staff home safe and engaging with their workforce through communication and leadership. To continually realise that aspiration, they can’t afford to ever become complacent.

The path to a safer workplace

Mobile Mini’s accident rates are amongst the best in the industry, and this isn’t just the result of a one-off exercise, it calls for continuous improvement.

Before iAuditor, health and safety checks were clunky and inefficient. Paper-based inspections and checks conducted on a daily, weekly and monthly basis required staff to manually write up email findings on return to the office. This meant there was no real-time visibility of what was happening on the ground, or the ability to respond and evolve accordingly.

After an internal recommendation, iAuditor posed the answer to many of Mobile Mini’s challenges.

The team started small, testing out just a couple of initial templates, iAuditor champion Andy Himsworth, SHEQ advisor and trainer on the safety team, discovered they could capture evidence and context – more than was previously possible.

Photos provided richer detail, and the ability to compile actions for noncompliance created a more fluid workflow. With iAuditor, senior management could now get a real-time overview of what branches were doing out in the field. From there, iAuditor began to gain traction.

Made for mobile businesses

Mobile Mini operates in a range of different environments: facing common site challenges including remoteness, weather issues, and lack of wifi. With iAuditor, the team now has the ability to conduct checks on any mobile device and even offline, syncing once they get connectivity.

With the power to capture and report on the go, other branches soon enabled sites to go out and begin using iAuditor. Identifying individuals who would be onsite using it and equipping them to be champions was the key to driving adoption. By getting peers to coach and help their colleagues, iAuditor gathered momentum.

Mobile Mini has now rapidly expanded its use cases to include: • Spanning Display Screen Equipment • (DSE) assessments to fire risk • COVID-19 return to work checks

• Pre-lift risk assessments for trucks

With staff onsite capturing photos on their phone and providing context to hazards, near-misses or concerns on the ground, branch managers can identify issues faster and move to proactive prevention. addressing risk in real time – even across vastly dispersed operations.

Pioneering an accident-free vision

The majority of Mobile Mini staff now regularly use iAuditor, with monthly scheduling of vital checks alongside ad hoc issue reporting – creating true accountability and visibility in the organisation. The team has seen a change in the level of compliance in its branches, with a direct correlation between more robust audits supported by iAuditor and a reduction in accidents. Their tech and employee-led approach hasn’t gone unnoticed. The team was highly commended by the British Safety Council for its approach to conducting audits, with iAuditor cited as a vital driver. Mobile Mini also received a North East Business Award for it’s COVID-19 response plan, facilitated by its iAuditor COVID templates.

In recognition of his efforts as a pioneer for the use of technology in driving safety, Andy Himsworth was shortlisted for the SHE Awards as Health & Safety Manager of the Year.

Andy commented: “iAuditor helps make compliance easy for everyone. It’s at the heart of our continual commitment to a workplace where every employee goes home safe.” q • For further information visit the website at www.safetyculture.com