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Show HN: Visual risk assessments

2 pointsby danvesmaalmost 10 years ago

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danvesmaalmost 10 years ago
I&#x27;m a serial starter-upper, this project being my fifth push in the past 10 years. Three were quick little things that started and stopped soon after - wrong market, no route to market, stronger competitors etc. One did become moderately successful locally, letting me take on a full time developer for a year before the economic meltdown brought us down. I&#x27;ve never been so excited about an idea as I am with SiteVis.it<p>Architects and Engineers visit sites every day, and their employers have a duty to ensure that they&#x27;re safe whilst there. A simple way to comply is to do Risk Assessments for the sites that they visit. These documents should be checked before each trip, people should sign them to say they&#x27;ve reviewed them, and edits should be made if things change. IT NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENS. These things get shoved into a file, and never looked at again.<p>Whilst this is a monumentally unglamorous problem, it&#x27;s one that can be at least partially solved by throwing some &#x27;convenience&#x27; into the process.<p>SiteVis.it allows everyone in the company to have up-to-date copies of all of the active risk assessments that the company is working on, edit them intuitively, and track who sees which version. Offline editing, and background data refreshing.