The daily hazard assessment, done on the phone and signed by the crew
Appello puts the field level hazard assessment on the foreman's phone. Build your FLHA once, or your JHA or JSA if that is what your sites call it, and attach it to the jobs that need it. Each morning it shows on the job as a form to start. The crew works through the task, the hazards, photos, a risk rating and the controls, then each worker signs with their own PIN. The office sees it in the form inbox as soon as it is submitted. It is live today for insulation, mechanical and sheet-metal contractors in Canada and the US.
FLHA app: how it works
Task, hazards, rating, controls
The risk assessment question walks the crew through it in order: describe the task, describe the hazards, photograph them, rate the risk from 1 (low) to 3 (high), and list the controls. More than one task today? Add another before moving on.
Required on the job, every day
Add the form to a job, to the jobs on a project you pick, or to all open jobs. New jobs pick up the all-jobs forms on their own. Each day the form shows on the job as Not Started until someone submits it.
Signed by the people who were there
Choose whether the crew signs one shared form or each worker files their own. The foreman submits with a five-digit PIN and picks who must acknowledge it. Each worker confirms with their last name and PIN, and can add a comment.
Filed where the office can find it
Every submission lands in the form inbox with the job, the worker, the date and the result, plus the location when GPS tracking is on. Recipients you name get an email with a link to the completed form, once every signature is in if you want to wait.
A normal week with it
- Before the first task
The foreman opens the job, starts today's FLHA, walks the work, rates each hazard and lists the controls. The crew signs on the same phone.
- When the work changes
A new task or a new hazard mid-shift? The foreman updates the submission instead of starting a new one.
- Friday
The safety lead filters the form inbox by job, form and date. The safety compliance report, now in beta, checks who logged time on each job against the required forms that were signed.
What the paper FLHA costs you
Paper hazard assessments get filled in. The trouble is everything that happens after.
- The pad lives in the truck, so the office sees the day's FLHA only when someone brings it in.
- A scrawled signature doesn't show who signed, when, or where they were standing.
- When the general contractor asks for last Tuesday's FLHA, someone digs through a binder.
- Nobody knows a crew skipped it until an inspector or an incident asks the question.
FLHA app: common questions
Is this an FLHA, a JHA or a JSA?
Appello's hazard assessment is whichever your sites call it — FLHA, JHA or JSA. You name the form and write the questions in the form builder. The risk assessment question follows the pattern all three share: describe the task and the hazards, photograph them, rate the risk from 1 (low) to 3 (high), and list the controls.
Can the whole crew sign one form?
Yes. Appello lets you set a hazard assessment so the whole crew signs one shared form, or so each worker files their own. The foreman submits with a five-digit PIN, and each worker confirms with their last name and PIN and can add a comment. You can also name default signatories who must sign every submission of that form.
Can the general contractor get a copy?
Yes. Appello can email any hazard assessment submission from the phone or the office, and the email carries a link to the completed form. Recipients you name on the form get that email each time one is submitted, once every signature is in if you want to wait.
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