Support 4 Safety
From Emmen, Herrie Veringa and his team run Support4Safety, a consultancy firm in the field of Risk Inventory and Evaluation (RI&E) and VCA certifications for companies. Many companies - although they sometimes do not know it themselves - are subject to RI&E. If those companies do not have an RI&E, they are violating the health and safety legislation. But even worse is that they are actually not taking good care of their people. Everyone wants to sit down at the table with their family after work in the evening, healthy and sound. Employers subject to RI&E play an important role in this and must take responsibility. So if they need practical help with that, they will find it at Support4 Safety.
Handy health and safety management system
Herrie Veringa's card box contains many SMEs with around 50 or 60 employees. They do not employ a KAM manager and certainly no QHSE manager or Safety Expert. These companies are aware that they need to do something about safety in the workplace, but they often lack a structure that helps to control occupational safety. Veringa adds that structure and gets to work with it. By running inspection rounds, Support4Safety employees identify unsafe situations and discuss them with their customers. Support4Safety's core business is unburdening companies by actively managing occupational safety. ISO2HANDLE also plays an important role in this unburdening.
From manual to automated
If you - like Support4Safety - want to help many dozens of customers at the same time, you should look for standardization with the help of good software. The realization came that Support4Safety customers simply need a handy system to manage their occupational safety. A practical tool for doing workplace inspections and reporting unsafe situations. Veringa looked at a number of Q&R software packages, but none of them did what he wanted. Finally, in ISO2HANDLE, he found the solution where he could express all his ideas.
Why ISO2HANDLE
For Support4Safety, ISO2HANDLE is the system that has it all. The platform offers the ability to configure customer environments that suit exactly what users want. These wishes are usually more limited than the software can handle, but that is completely fine, according to Veringa. His customers experience a system that simply fits perfectly with what they expect from it. In practice, the software is very user-friendly and well-organized. It really helps users get their work done better and faster.
Veringa is also very enthusiastic about the collaboration with ISO2HANDLE. Feedback is always processed quickly and properly and the ticketing system is really great! If there are issues, they are always resolved quickly and appropriately. The lines are short and the partnering is perfect.
The further
Veringa has a clear picture of how the ISO2HANDLE platform should work for its customers in the near future. Today, Support4Safety still devotes a lot of time and attention to configuring digital quality environments for its customers. But especially after the latest update to ISO2HANDLE, it has become even easier to set up an environment yourself. And that is where Support4Safety would like to go. Customers who, with the help of good documentation, get to work on setting up their own environment themselves. Where necessary, of course, with the help of Support4Safety, but in any case, more proactive than now. That would be a good development, because it also contributes to the ownership of digital environments. If you came up with and configured it yourself, that ownership is of course greater than if you have completely outsourced it to your advisor.
What about Herrie Veringa herself? It will also go on for a while. Because quitting work, he shouldn't think about that. Just having fun with your customers. There is nothing more beautiful!
