Thursday, April 2, 2009

How Can Risk Management Software Help My Organization?

Risk management software can help an organization in many ways. By analyzing data that has been record over many years and sometimes decades, organizations can find cost saving trends. Type of data that companies record include safety, the cost of cleanup, near misses, injuries on site, fires, automobile accidents, chemical spills and others. By running reports that provide a list of incidents, their cost, number of people involved and when they occurred for example, you can plot these on a graph and trends will start to occur. For example, you mind find that this graph spikes in July each year where without this reporting tool you would never have noticed. Upon deeper inspection you see that a certain facility has a problem with a process due to the heat in July that has lead to a larger number of incidents. Or you may find that because of the heat, more employees are getting hurt. These are simplified examples but by looking at years of data, trends begin to emerge that have saved companies millions not to mention prevented accidents and helped to clean up a public relations image. For more information on risk management software, click here.