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SafetyCulture has helped businesses around the world achieve

90%

reduction in late start-ups in production plant*

49%

savings from safety & compliance improvements*

60%

reduction in reporting time*

*Reported in Forrester’s study: The Total Economic Impact™ of SafetyCulture’s Operations Platform

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Boost productivity

Keep production running with digitized checks, automation, and sensors

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Drive engagement

Make workflows simple and accessible so your team can focus on what matters.

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Gain visibility

Break down silos and access real-time data to understand what’s happening on the floor.

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Improve operations

Quickly identify issues, reduce downtime, and increase throughput for better results.

Manufacturing sensors and alerts

Protect your production time

Capture early warning signs from critical equipment so you can act fast. Monitor temperatures, vibrations, and operating conditions and flag issues early before they turn into breakdowns.
Turn risk alerts into clear maintenance action and trigger follow-up work automatically. Assign owners, set priorities, and track due dates so nothing gets missed.

Remove blind spots and hit uptime targets

Align inspections and checks across every site. Roll out the same machine and equipment inspections so performance, risks, and compliance are easy to compare from one factory to the next.
Understand what equipment you have, where it’s located, and what needs attention. Keep service history, risk levels, and open issues in one place so teams aren’t chasing information.
Focus time and resources where they matter most. Use simple dashboards to surface key metrics like Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), throughput, and schedule compliance line or site in real time.
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Manufacturing issues to improvement

Run every machine to the same high standard

Turn equipment processes into skills people can use. Break down complex equipment tasks into short, targeted training and on‑the‑job checks so operators know what good looks like and can prove they’re doing it right.
Keep standards live, not static. Push updates with clear acknowledgement so teams know what’s changed and why, even as equipment or processes improve.

The SafetyCulture platform is the life-blood of our quality and safety management systems. We are using it to report on everything—from QHSE (Quality Health Safety Environment) field audits, PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) inspections, contractor onboarding, equipment service and repair templates, asset tracking— along with all of our permits to work.

Gary Bonnett

Director, Quality, Health and Safety Environment (QHSE), BOS Solutions

Optimize how work gets done

Create repeatable processes with digitized checks. Turn any process like pre-start, safety, or quality checks into simple taps with everything you need from tables to real-time calculations, photo annotations, voice-to-text, and much more.
Make everything actionable right away. Automate corrective actions across safety, maintenance, and quality with full context and traceability to ensure accountability and timely resolution.
Eliminate reporting and back office work. Turn every check into detailed reports with automated summaries of critical findings, non-conformances, and corrective actions.
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Get every worker engaged

Make it easy to report and audit anything. Provide instant mobile access on any device, online or offline, QR codes for on-site placement in just clicks making worker adoption easy and clear.
Keep your team upskilled and on track. Deploy training courses in minutes for compliance or improvement. With bite-sized lessons, your teams retain more without disrupting their day.
Turn every SOP into instant answers in any language. Make it easy for operators and leaders to access SOPs, chemical handling and more with centralized document control with AI-powered answers.

Improve equipment performance inspection across your manufacturing sites

Condition monitoring
Calibration and condition checks
Asset commissioning inspections
Corrective action
Daily equipment performance log
Daily preventative maintenance
Internet of Things (IoT) sensors
Pre‑start equipment safety checks
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) inspections
Production line changeover
Regulatory equipment compliance audits
Machine and equipment safety

Built for every factory floor

3x

audit efficiency

$20,000

paper waste saved annually

“Using SafetyCulture platform, we have become a paperless HACCP company. There is absolutely no way that we could have grown as fast as we have whilst maintaining quality without these processes and data in place.”

Sofia Dias

Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager, Marley Spoon

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Maintain equipment performance with ready inspection resources

Focused equipment performance inspection courses and templates so teams can spot issues early and act faster

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Explore equipment performance management resources & solutions

Template

OEE Report Template

Easily minimize the six big losses of OEE manufacturing and automatically generate and share OEE reports using a digital template.

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Template

Condition Monitoring Checklist

Track the ideal performance and reliability of your equipment and facility using digital condition monitoring report templates.

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Template

Basic Asset Management Template

Keep track of business assets and related activities using asset management templates.

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Template

Equipment Maintenance Log

Stay consistent with routine equipment inspections to avoid disruption in production with an equipment maintenance log.

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Course

Machine Guarding Course

Explore the common hazards to guard against and the different machine guarding methods to ensure workplace safety.

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Course

Working Safely with Machinery Course

Learn about common machine and equipment hazards, risk management, safeguarding measures, and operational safety inspections.

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