sWafety: Low-threshold involvement of personnel into safety management

Abstract

The motivation of employees to use established Safety Management Systems (SMS) is often relatively low. This is due to missing feedback and other barriers (e.g., Pfeiffer et al., 2010; Ackermann et al., 2014). Furthermore, extensive safety surveys (e.g., safety culture surveys) often lack actuality and are prone to biases. Due to such deficiencies safety-relevant information remains undetected. sWafety provides a process concept and a digital tool for a complementary information channel that aims at utilizing swarm intelligence involving as many employees as possible. sWafety aims at increasing the participation rate through low thresholds as well as through continuous data acquisition.