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Blockchain and H&S
What is blockchain
By having a single version of the truth, everyone involved can see what they need and fully understand what’s involved in the delivery
An undisputed - network of trust - for all interested parties where information can be shared to keep the work environment safe
The key is transparency – a tool or product built using public blockchain technology can give everyone involved in the transaction a view of all the data captured.
Buzzword, but been around for a while. Spoken about to help business secure supply chain
Distributed ledger: transaction > Strengths> traceability, unchangeable, transparency, reliability
Groups of transactions are called a block. For the purposes of self-auditing these are chained together
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what we need to know about blockchain is that it´s all about a tool, a technology relating to data record, indexation, storage and retrieval.
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What are the benefits
To get a box from A to B involves multiple organisations, all with their own ways of working.
Lets workers anonymously speak out on health and safety. Reporting, concerns, poor practices, good catches - quick and secure. Self-reporting, can see results before management. Proper transparency.
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True blockchain is open for all to see and not owned by any one organisation, thus providing transparency and certainty in a complex and uncertain global environment.
Applications
Use in cryptocurrency - has been the technical foundation of crypto currencies such as Bitcoin for many years
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The aim of the scheme is to input an annual worker survey on the blockchain. Once inputted the company’s site-based managers will be unable to alter it, and the findings will be made available to the workforce and the parent company.
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One of the duties under the Act, and least mature parts of many organisations health and safety program is meeting the requirement to consult, collaborate and co-ordinate work with other organisations that share the same work related risk.
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Typically organisations attempt to manage this risk by employing strategies such as pre-qualifying organisations they are contracting and then by attempting to control the activity through tactics such as permits, access controls, audits and contractual agreements
It can be difficult, expensive and frustrating for smaller organisations who have to comply with the differing and varying requirements (such as different permit systems) of those they are working for. Equally, the companies initiating the work are often far from comfortable that the information quality they receive and often do not have enough visibility of who is actually doing the work and how.
Added to this a key finding from the recent HASANZ Health and Safety Professionals Survey was that organisations are uncertain about qualifications and certifications around health and safety professionals and would like more clarity on what these mean and how they stack up against the requirements of industry.
For example, the pre-qualification status and latest audit assessment of a PCBU would be available on the blockchain. Individual employees could have their training and qualification status and certification available and even equipment and locations could have audit, certification and historical hazard incident records available for interrogation.
Way beyond basic visibility on the blockchain and certification could be logging of historical events such as positive task completions and incidents. An up to date and trusted record of performance would create a potentially valuable check for PCBUs in their collaborative consultation requirements.
Conclusions
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We see all these technologies in other management fields globally and it is inevitable that as health and safety evolves it will need to adapt to meet these and other future challenges.
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As with the companies dodging the adoption of emerging technologies, so with those professionals which will decide not to learn and train command enough to deal with the blockchain-related tools that will increasingly appear. The fate of these people is the professional obsolescence for not adapt to such a basic requirement as the duly day-to-day management of information in the referred fields of OSH, environment and related fields.
is the future potential opportunity to leverage blockchain technology to drive cooperation, consultation and collaboration between all players in the New Zealand health and safety environment.
If you have reached this point of the article, congratulations, may you be in your way to build a strength that will make a sound difference among your competitors.
The thought of t5rue transparency may be a threat to some organisation, used to flanting rulre
The difference between facing a threat of enjoying an opportunity relies frequently on the attitude taken before the issue. This is the case described in this article.