Watch our interview with ARCHIBUS’s Danielle Moore about our health and safety facilities solutions during COVID-19 (coronavirus).

RSC’s CEO, Bob Stephen, was recently interviewed by ARCHIBUS and featured on their blog about the solutions we have used over the years—and are now applying to the COVID-19 pandemic—to keep employees safe and healthy, reduce organizational costs, and track routine cleaning, medical incidents, remote workers, and more. Watch the interview in the video above. We’ve also summarized it below.

How to track COVID-19 in Archibus.

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How can organizations quickly and effectively COVID-19 related incidents?

Our clients began looking for immediate incident tracking, or the capability for staff to record whether they weren’t feeling well and what they did about it: did they take the day off or were they exhibiting symptoms of coronavirus that required them to work remotely for a while? Once the initial report is made, we leverage Archibus Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) to record:

  • who else was involved in the incident.
  • did anyone go to the hospital, and if so, who?
  • did the involved person(s) self-impose quarantine, or was it mandated by an organization?
  • were any medical diagnoses made?

What applications are needed prior to tracking through Environmental Health and Safety?

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Some Archibus applications are necessary prior to tracking with Environmental Health and Safety to leverage correct data.

Before we can take a client into tracking health and safety incidents in EH&S, a couple of applications should be in place so the EH&S application can leverage data and make reporting quicker and easier than it’s ever been. Archibus Space Inventory and Performance and Archibus Personnel and Occupancy hold this essential data:

  • up-to-date floorplans.
  • accurate employee locations.
  • regular data synchronization process (mainly with HR system).
  • room category and type.

Having this data allows maintenance teams to know instantaneously where to go to disinfect or clean a location and contain a health and safety incident. In order to put this information on a work order, work request, or maintenance ticket, and automatically route these to a craftsperson, organizations should have the Archibus Building Operations application.

To determine the condition of a room, building, site, or campus, organizations should use Archibus Commissioning. This application allows users to record whether sites are safe, and, if not, why or how. Is the building defective? Does it need maintenance work? Does new construction need to happen?

Mobile devices and individual contributors in Archibus.

Archibus is fully responsive to enable users with mobile devices, tablets, and handhelds to record data and update the system instantly. These personnel are called individual contributors, and are essential if quick and accurate updates are the goal of an organization.

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Individual contributors can use mobile devices with Archibus to instantly update essential information.

Archibus reporting, metrics, and charts for the middle manager, and C-and V-level executives.

One of the main strengths of Archibus is the ability to report on data. Middle managers can generate monthly, yearly, or quarterly, reports. These reports can also be viewed in the form of metrics. These metrics can help an organization determine how many COVID-related incidents have occurred, as well as how many total incidents. Charts can also be made from reported data: bar charts, line charts, pie charts, and any other visual representation that will make strategic IWMS data digestible.

These reports, when delivered to the C- and V-level decision makers of an organization, can speak for themselves on the effectiveness of IWMS. Reports help guide and inform strategic decisions such as:

  • cost-saving measures.
  • space planning.
  • move management decisions.
  • incident response protocol.
  • routine maintenance and cleaning measures.

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