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Morgan AshurstMSite video shows the solution in action at Morgan Ashurst (formerly Bluestone)  The construction industry within UK is the single largest employer with over 2.2 million employees. While the industry is growing at a rapid pace it continues to suffer from poor access control at construction sites, litigation costs of health and safety (H&S) violations, buddy punching and over charging from contractors. In 2005-06 28% of all worker deaths were in the construction industry and 3,677 major injuries to worker force were reported in the same time frame. The cost of these incidents to the industry can be gauged from the fact that average penalty per health and safety conviction was £ 29,997.
Morgan Ashurst contacted Human Recognition Systems (HRS) for developing a solution that will not only improve site security and H&S regulation enforcement but also allow for multi-site facilitation and muster reporting at the touch of a button.
Objective
The objective of this case study is to highlight the business benefits of using MSite to help increase site security, improve H&S policy enforcement, eliminate buddy punching and overpayment to contractors.
Existing Issues
Morgan Ashurst at any given time have a number of construction sites involving workers, contractors, suppliers, supervisors engaged in a range of activities. Access to the construction sites was controlled by security officers who physically inspected the credentials of each employee against his card and made a manual entry into the register. At some of the sites smart cards were used to grant access to the workers to sites. The same process was repeated at the end of the day as each employee was logged out. The existing process meant that:
- Gaining access to the construction site was a laborious process.
- Unsupervised access using smart cards allowed workers to clock in and out for each other.
- The large number of stakeholders made it virtually impossible for Project Managers to control access to sites, know who is onsite and if they had the necessary credentials to be there.
As a consequence site security could be compromised and result in unnecessary overheads due to litigation costs on health and safety violations, buddy punching and incorrect payments to contractors.
There were also indirect costs on account of insurance claims, time taken off work for injuries and in some cases investigations into how the incident occurred, closing the site down for several days.
MSite in Action
HRS' commitment to developing innovative solutions resulted in the creation of MSite - a one stop Biometrics Access Control and Information Management System for the construction industry. MSite provides a highly structured solution focused around construction projects. Our flexible solution incorporates biometrics with management software platforms allowing managers in the Construction Industry to perform a variety of functions designed specifically to address key industry concerns regarding Health and Safety Details, CSCS Accreditation, Site Access and Report Generation across various parameters.
Access to the construction sites is granted by verifying the credentials of an employee using their biometric credentials. These unique biometric credentials of each employee have information (CSCS Accreditation, Employee Induction, Health and Safety Details etc) stored against them which informs the system administrator if they have the necessary accreditation to gain access to the site. Each transaction is recorded by the system and provides Project Managers with accurate information on the number of workers onsite, duration of stay and generate reports across various parameters at their convenience.
A unique and first of its kind solution deployed in the UK, MSite helps address the existing issues facing the construction industry and provides the following benefits:
- Secure Access to Sites With Biometrics: Iris, Hand, Vein, Face or Finger based Biometrics ensure fool proof security across sites.
- Hub Spoke Model: Each site in the architecture can maintain its own database of users and run independently of other sites.
- Employee Details Capture and Unique Identification: Store unique details (biometric and personal) of all employees in the system.
- Employee Mobility: Convenient transfer of employee information across sites to facilitate migration.
- CSCS Detail Capture and Lockout on Expiry: CSCS accreditation will be tied to employee biometric details and have an inbuilt alarm to warn manager of those about to reach expiry date.
- User Group: Conveniently assign employees to different user groups e.g. employees can be classified on the basis of contractors/sub contractors.
- Employee Induction: Employee induction status will determine their ability to gain access to a site.
- Employee Banning: When an employee is banned from a site, this change will cascade to every site networked with central solution.
- Health and Safety Details: Solution will allow a manager to store details in the application whenever an employee is involved in an accident.
- On Site and Central Report Generation: Roll Call (Muster) Reports by Company and Trade, Access and Attendance Reporting, Accident Reporting, CSCS Audit Reporting, CSCS Expiry Reporting, Induction Check Reporting, User List Report.
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