Health & Safety Audits
Health & safety auditing involves simple tasks including that odf data collection, which can be very resource intensive if auditors use a pen & paper to record their observations. Paper filling is easy... transcribing this information into machine-readable form for later analysis is very very costly!
The small form factor and long battery life of handheld pocket PCs/PDAs make them ideal for the data collection task of a health & safety audit.
Audits in the Field
While an organizations could use form based software to design a custom health & safety data capture forms, organizations need more than this. They need applications that can be configured by a business user and cover both the handheld data capture and the office based analysis and reporting.