Below I’ve listed some of my favourite ideas that are bound to help you comply with your regulatory requirements faster and with more efficiency, so you can get on with your day in a fully compliant, effective manner.

Must I File Certificates of Electrical Compliance? 

Yes, you must. Licensed electricians and contractors who work in Australia must file a certificate of compliance every time they complete a job. It’s the crucial last step in your sign-off process. A failure to file compliance certificates can cost an electrician up to $550,000 in fines and penalties.

What’s more, you need to hold onto these certificates for at least five years (seven in New Zealand) or you risk financial penalties. Professional tradesmen and commercial companies working across a range of industries, including mining and construction, are similarly affected.

If filing compliance certificates is mandatory, how do you make this administrative process as quick and painless as possible?

Time Management

Keeping on top of your schedule makes it easier to tackle your compliance filing. Make sure you know exactly what jobs you’re on each day and set aside time at the end of each one to tick off your filing requirements. Don’t let your filing build up to the end of the day—you’re more likely to unknowingly neglect it this way, or you might even miss the odd certificate if you’re tired and in a rush.

Get Organised

Make sure you’ve got all the details you need to complete your certificates quickly and painlessly, including a note of the work you’ve undertaken and the customer’s personal details. The less you need to hunt around for details, the quicker you can get your filing done. Being organised also allows you to determine faster what you need to do, the details and things you need, and what to prepare for.

Prepare in Advance

Think about the jobs you’re doing before you get there. Fill in whatever details you can before you start the work and set yourself reminders to complete the certificates. Most importantly, don’t move on to the next job until you’ve completely signed off on the previous one. This turns your full focus to the next job and lets you mentally prepare the proper way.

Use Digital Tools 

With the importance of filing compliance certificates and the potential stress and headache that comes along with it, it makes perfect sense to use technology to make sure you’re up to the task.

You could opt for digital work management tools to help you organise and plan your tasks the right way. The good news is, when it comes to compliance, we’ve got such a tool in mind, one that helps you achieve the aforementioned things while making sure that you’re on top of your compliance certificates tasks: QuickSafety.

QuickSafety is an app that helps you file and lodge your certificates with ease and store them securely for the required number of years without having to deal with loads of paperwork. This helps you reduce clutter, allowing you to enjoy the benefits of an organised workspace.

We developed the app with your convenience, work efficiency, ease-of-use, and innovation in mind. This is why we made sure that it has features such as offline capability (it stores data which you can later upload when you’re within network range), 24/7 access for you and your team, and instant compliance lodging. It also syncs across different devices so all team members have all the needed details and lets you pre-plan jobs and log work progress and completion for better work management and work status visibility.

Last but not the least, QuickSafety allows for easy and organised inspections and testing, allowing you to input and validate test results to make sure that the work done is safe and complies with current standards.

So, if you want to accomplish all your compliance tasks without any problems and put more efficiency and better management into your work, we at QuickSafety can definitely help. You can download our app now via Google Play (for Android devices) and iTunes (for iOS devices). If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us; we’re more than willing to help you out.

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Fortunately, QuickSafety offers a solution here. To gain a better understanding of what our app offers, let’s take a closer look and learn more about its features that will help you do your job better, faster.

Why Electricians and Contractors Need a Convenient, Paperless Filing System

The filing of certificates of electrical compliance is an essential part of the signing off process for electrical work across Australia. However, it’s easy for this critical step to be overlooked when we’re busy working across multiple jobs. Remember that these certificates ensure that the work done is up to current safety standards, which means they shouldn’t be ignored.

So what’s the problem with lost compliance paperwork or failure to comply with Australian safety regulations? Well, it’s illegal, and it can cost electricians up to $550,000.

It’s not just electricians and electrical contractors who are affected. Professional tradesmen working across the construction and mining industries can be affected, too. With all these filing regulations comes another problem—keeping your paperwork organised and secure. Electricians are required by law to hold onto compliance certificates for at least five years (or seven in New Zealand), and failure to do so can result in additional penalties.

This is why it’s so important to have a paperless, convenient system through which to keep track of all your compliance certificates and the work you’ve undertaken.

How QuickSafety Can Help

The QuickSafety app is developed with electricians and electrical contractors and the problems they’re facing in mind, especially those related to compliance filing.

Using complex filing tools and working across multiple platforms costs businesses time and money. Our app lets you log and complete jobs with just a few clicks, helping you move from one task to the next seamlessly and efficiently.

The QuickSafety App: Key Features

The QuickSafety app boasts many impressive advantages over traditional filing and job management tools. QuickSafety will not only help ensure you file your compliance certificates on time but will also make your job easier in other aspects.

• No training required: QuickSafety integrates with your existing business management systems so you don’t need to spend more time installing new software or training your team to use a new system.
• Syncs across devices: QuickSafety syncs automatically across devices, bringing you up-to-date information and data. This eliminates the need to spend time and energy in manual info gathering across your team.
• 24/7 access: Access your certificates remotely and at any time of day. Instantly update jobs so that your team can see the most recent and most precise information available.
• Inspections and testing: QuickSafety enables users to input test results and the app validates these results to current standards to ensure that the work done is safe and compliant to the standards.
• Instant lodging and paperless management: Lodge your certificates instantly. You also won’t have to deal with loads of paperwork, so you can keep your workspace free from clutter, which has a host of benefits.
• Pre-plan jobs: Schedule jobs in advance so you know exactly what you need, where you’re going to be, and when you’re going to be there. Upload your certificates in real-time to ensure there are no potentially risky delays. As with any job, proper planning results in more efficiency, preparedness, and faster completion of work.

Me and my team created QuickSafety to help you do your job easier, faster and safer, especially when it comes to compliance. We know the value of efficiency, proper time management, and making sure that the job meets the proper standards—things that our app will help you achieve. Not only does QuickSafety remove the hassle of manually filing certificates of compliance, it will also helps you manage your and your team’s tasks better, resulting in more efficiency and productivity.

If you want to know more about how we can help, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

QuickSafety is now available for download via Google Play (for Android devices) and iTunes (for iOS devices).

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How QuickSafety can Help

At QuickSafety, we take the hassle out of validating, recording, and storage of your inspection and testing results, as well as in most states—completing and issuing your Certificates of Electrical Compliance. With our user-friendly app, electricians can digitally lodge their certificates within seconds, and allows the contractor to secure storage of all certificates and testing results securely in one place for up to five years (or seven in New Zealand). It also functions as a useful platform that will help you manage your time and tasks better and get rid of workspace clutter, making the job easier overall. If you have any questions, please get in touch with my team.

The QuickSafety app is now available for download via Google Play (for Android devices) and iTunes (for iOS devices). Don’t take any chances. Sign up with QuickSafety now.

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With this in mind, we at QuickSafety have designed an app for electricians, tradies, mining firms, and other contractors that will help you save time and money on inspection & testing and issuing compliance certificates, leading to a more robust competitive advantage to leverage.

So, how does our app achieve just that? Below is a summary of how one app can lead to increased time- and cost-efficiency.

What Is QuickSafety?

Compliance certificates, required in all states, remain an important government mandate, with serious penalties and repercussions for failure to comply. Taking care of the paperwork and records required can consume a lot of working hours, costing a company significant amounts of time. And since, in business, time essentially equates to money, this also means lost profits.

The QuickSafety app can help you process, manage, and organise compliance-related issues. It also conveniently stores records for up to five years in Australia (seven years in New Zealand). Our app takes the stress out of compliance by reducing legal exposure by up to $370,000 per month.

How QuickSafety Helps You Save Time and Money

Our app takes care of access, record keeping, and compliance validation. This leaves your staff and admin more free to do what they do best and rids workspaces of messy paperwork.

Keep Better Track of Jobs

The QuickSafety app allows users to pre-plan jobs while also logging progress and task completion. This allows users and admin to monitor tasks better and be updated in terms of the status of each task. The ability to pre-plan jobs also helps you be more time-efficient and prepared—you’ll be able to spot and even address potential issues in advance, resulting in reduced downtimes and saving you from headaches and lost income.

Register Compliance Information Remotely

Less paperwork. No more forgetting to complete compliance reports on the way back to the office. Just file remotely via your mobile device. If you’re reporting from a location so remote that you’re offline, QuickSafety will store the information and send it as soon as you’re within network range. This added convenience saves you time and reduces the stress associated with managing paperwork, keeping you more focused on improving your tasks or business as a whole.

Syncing and 24/7 access

Since information is also synced across all devices, QuickSafety not only saves time and money but also helps reduce miscommunication. With admin or staff members always updated, they’ll be informed of what they should know, need to do, and should prepare for.

Not every job falls between the hours of nine and five on business days. As such, QuickSafety also provides access on all hours every day, including holidays. It works whenever and wherever you have a job to do.

Efficient and Easy Compliance

As we all know, being compliant and managing compliance certificates can be tiring and frustrating. However, we basically have no choice—failing to comply means hefty fines and will negatively affect your reputation. Fortunately, with QuickSafety, through its innovative features, compliance is made easy and efficient, saving you from stiff penalties and helping you have more time to, say, do more tasks, improve your skills, or look for more clients.

That and its ability to help you manage your tasks and provide better visibility of progress for you and your team means that it not only helps you save time and money, it also makes your work easier overall, without you having to compromise anything.

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With QuickSafety, you’re given a Certified AS/NZS3000 compliant app that provides advantages when it comes to compliance and task management—advantages that will help you do your job better. If you want to know more about QuickSafety or if you have any questions, get in touch with me or my team and we’ll be more than willing to help you.

If you’re interested in downloading the QuickSafety app, it’s now available for download via Google Play (for Android devices) and iTunes (for iOS devices).

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This is one of the reasons why the QuickSafety team and I developed the QuickSafety app.

Our app serves as an easy-to-use tool for lodging, processing, managing, and storing compliance certificates and helps ensure that the work is done and is compliant to AS/NZS 3000 standards. This is important since failure to be compliant can lead to hefty fines and even having your license revoked.

In a nutshell, the QuickSafety app makes life easier for electricians and electrical contractors, especially in terms of compliance certificates, while saving them from incurring penalties and breaking compliance laws. So, how does our all-around electrical compliance app achieve just that? Below, we highlight and explain some of its key features to give you a better idea of how QuickSafety can change the way you work for the better.

Easy and Quick Compliance Lodging

Thanks to technological advancements and the internet, we now have the ability to complete certain tasks easier and much faster compared to the past. The QuickSafety app is a clear reflection of this. Users can lodge inspection and testing values as well as compliance certificates via their mobile phones and complete the process in just a fraction of the time. This significantly reduces paperwork and eliminates the stress of manual filing.

Pre-plan Your Jobs

We developed the QuickSafety app with proper job management in mind. As such, we made sure that it allows users to pre-plan their jobs. This feature lets you log your future jobs many days ahead, saving you time in the process and allowing you to manage your workload better. Knowing and planning your jobs ahead of time allows you to better prepare and do your homework for increased job efficiency.

Automatic Syncing

The QuickSafety app also enables better collaboration and communication between admin and team members. With its instant syncing feature, information is automatically synced and updated across all devices. This ensures that all team members are updated when it comes to information they need to finish the task, and enables easier reporting on job progress.

Offline Capability

We’re well aware that you can’t always be online 24/7. There will be times that you’ll be out of Wi-Fi or network range, so we made sure that our app still works offline. It validates test results to AS/NZS 3000 Standards, as well as automatically stores your data and work progress even if you’re not connected to the internet. And, once you’re back online, it will upload data so you won’t have to start over.

Secure Storage

Another thing that we don’t like about paperwork and manual compliance filing is that important files tend to get lost over time. We remove this headache with the QuickSafety app. It lets you keep track of all the compliance certificates you’ve lodged and stores them securely for the required five years (or seven years in New Zealand).

With these features, the QuickSafety app allows you to better collaborate, manage your work, save time, and meet compliance standards—important requirements if you want to effectively scale your business.

If you want to know more about this app, please don’t hesitate to send us a message and we’ll be more than happy to help you out. The QuickSafety app is now available for download on Google Play (Android devices) and iTunes (for iOS devices).

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