stark connect – an effective and efficient way to track environmental, health & safety issues in the workplace

Allow staff, contractors and site visitors to quickly and easily observe and track EHS conversations at any STARK location in the UK & Ireland.

With STARKs acquisition of Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Ltd, they entered the UK market, acquiring over 600 branches and distribution centres in the process. This meant they had an urgent need to reliably track and analyse health & safety conversations across their UK sites. It was immediately obvious to the STARK team that they needed to evolve and re-provision the proven SMAT Connect platform that many of the same staff had become accustomed to at Saint-Gobain.

The STARK Connect platform needed to stay true to its previous incarnation to allow staff familiarity, and thus preventing any retraining to be required, allowing users to hit the ground running. However it needed tailoring to the STARK brand, and required some additional functionality alongside tweaks to existing functionality. There was also a complete backoffice swap to allow integration with a different set of internal systems.

Standout features of the STARK Connect platform include;

• Creation of safety conversations with photo or video evidence. Submissions notify staff and line managers automatically via email. Conversations can be automatically geo-located to your location, choosing the closest STARK site based on proximity.
• Ability to analyse previous conversation information, including pointing out primary concerns across the task and activity observation database. This can be filtered to specific brands, sites, counties and regions, etc.
• Ability to point out locations on a map which have a high volume of risks. Ability to check which tasks and activities are not being observed regularly.