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Trusted by 85,000+ teams to work safely, meet higher standards and improve every day

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.

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Strengthen compliance with work protocols

Replace paper permit‑to‑work forms with guided digital approvals. Use premade compliance forms to complete prerequisites like risk assessments and work permits before work is authorized.
Route approvals to the right people. Automatically notify the assigned approvers as soon as a permit is issued or requested to avoid delays.
Close permit request loops properly. Establish structured close‑out steps to confirm processes are done correctly and any issues are properly documented.

Get clear visibility of every visitor

Replace paper logbooks with a clear, searchable digital record. Simplify sign-in/out processes with digital logs and capture visitor data in seconds for an accurate headcount of who’s going in and out of the site.
Build PPE checks and safety briefings into onsite arrival workflows. Provide bite-sized, guided steps to ensure each visitor understands the rules and is properly equipped before they head into the site.
Prove you met your duty of care when it matters most. Keep a digital record of time‑stamped sign‑in/out, PPE checks, and safety briefings so that you have a verifiable trail for regulators, visitors, and insurers.
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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.
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Make every site visit count

Standardize how supervisors oversee work during every visit. Create guided inspections with the right documents so they exactly know what to look for and can report reliable site data every time.
Consolidate all site‑related information into one place. Bring all visit, issue, and action data together so leaders can access visit coverage, findings, and closure rates at a glance.
Drive training, communications, and quick process changes using real data. Keep visitor guides up to date and share short refreshers so every visit is clear, consistent and supports safer, smoother work across the site.

Our teams take anywhere up to 50 photos per inspection, really getting into the detail of the vehicle. Being able to capture all that data and then manipulate it in a way that means we can see exactly what’s working, and what’s not, means we’re able to continuously learn and improve how we operate.

Adrian Wood

Senior Quality Engineer, Bri-Stor Systems

Improve site visits across your manufacturing sites

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) compliance
Safety briefings
Access controls
Permit-to-work approvals
Site safety audit
Hazard issue and action management
Work compliance checks
Guided standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Visitor sign-in/out
Site risk assessment
Incident reporting
Corrective and preventive action (CAPA)

Backed by hundreds of customer reviews on G2

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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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Get more from site visits with a prepared resource set

Practical site visit courses and templates to standardize reviews and close actions sooner

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Template

Factory Visit Report

Use this factory visit report template to easily document key observations, findings, and action points during on-site inspections.

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Template

Gemba Walk Checklist

Verify safety checks and document opportunities for improvement with a Gemba Walk checklist.

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Template

Visitor Sign-In Sheet

Efficiently monitor visitor entries and improve visitor management using a visitor sign-in template.

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Course

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Manufacturing Course

This course offers a clear overview of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and its role in workplace safety to help gain a better understanding of safety measures.

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Course

Safety in the Workplace Course

This course is designed to provide safety compliance information to ensure workers and other stakeholders can be productive without compromising their well-being.

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Course

Gemba Walk Course

This course introduces manufacturing professionals to the key principles and steps of the Gemba Walk process, a hands-on approach to continuous improvement.

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