Field Notes — The Fieldtec Blog
Safety and compliance, argued properly — what actually protects a crew, what's just paperwork, and how to tell the difference.
COR without the scramble
PT — 02/02
COR is usually a once-a-year scramble for evidence that was created all year long. How keeping the audit scored month by month changes the job, and where software should stop.
The shape does the work
PT — 01/02
Most safety software blames the crew when the data is bad. We think the form was the problem. How the shape of a tool changes what people actually do in the field.
AI finds the trends
PT — 01/02
For decades the warning signs were written down and never read. How AI and connected field data turn years of safety records into trends you can act on before someone gets hurt.
When perfect data lies
PT — 02/02
A checklist that is always perfect is not telling you anything. How rubber-stamped forms hide risk, why good people do it, and the data signals that give it away.
Communication is a control
Why communication sits at the root of most incidents, and how AI and headsets are closing the gap between the site and the office.
Reward the behaviour, never the outcome
The site is changing hands from boomers to millennials and Gen Z. Compliance, done right, is the bridge between how they learn.
Same physics, five people or five hundred
PT — 01/02
The binder on the shelf never stopped an incident. What a real compliance program is, why it scales from a small shop to a megaproject, and what it costs to not have one.
PT — 02/02
Policies, training, inspections, corrective actions, proof — the working parts of a compliance program, and how to stand one up yourself without a consultant or a six-month rollout.