TECHNOLOGY & EQUIPMENT
LUKE ANEAR FOUNDED SafetyCulture in 2004 , building on a traditional construction-based consultancy business from inception until 2012 , at which point the iAuditor app was released . Anear , with years of private investigation work behind him , had witnessed workers being injured on construction sites over and over again : “ After being involved in around 2,500 investigations I realised I was in a reactive role , and I could do more in a proactive sense ,” he says . “ That was the catalyst for me to start SafetyCulture , and later , iAuditor .”
In 2011 , Anear started to see the penetration of smartphones reach non-technical construction workers – such as bricklayers and carpenters – and realised there was a gap in the market which he filled with an original idea .
“ The criteria for iAuditor was the concept that the entire industry is reactive ,” Anear explains . “ If someone gets hurt or dies on site then legislation gets written to prevent it from happening again , and then companies will produce procedures , policies , and paperwork to ensure everyone on site is compliant . We stepped back and asked ‘ how can we
provide a solution that isn ’ t reacting to legislation , but is proactively inspiring front-line people to work better ?’
“ Checklists have been used successfully in the aviation and medicine industries since the 1930s , and the concept filtered down into anywhere that needed safety standards or quality that needs to be maintained . We took that idea as a starting point and went forward with a criteria for what became iAuditor .”
Anear wanted to build something flexible enough to have a collaborative component , including a public library
14 May 2016