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How can COMET transform risk management in construction?

Do you have any of the following challenges?

In the engineering and construction industry, there are a variety of challenges that can impact safety, operational efficiency, and competitiveness. However, these challenges can also be viewed as opportunities for innovation and growth.

As construction projects become more complex, it is important to address these challenges in a constructive way to ensure successful project delivery, manage risks effectively, and stay ahead of the competition. By taking a proactive approach to these challenges, the industry can continue to thrive and evolve, and ultimately provide better outcomes for stakeholders.

Do any of the following challenges sound familiar?

Imperfect Incident Investigations

Prioritising the safety of the workforce and the entire supply chain is essential to maintain a productive work environment. Any incidents or accidents can not only cause direct harm but also lead to unwanted project delays, financial losses, and negative impact on reputation.
 
Solution: COMET investigate enables users to investigate incidents using our unique root cause analysis tools and proven methodology to uncover the underlying causes of safety incidents. By guiding the creation of preventative actions, COMET mitigates the risk of repeat incidents, ensuring a safer work environment and reducing project disruptions. Join industry leaders like McDermott who have successfully leveraged COMET to improve their incident investigation processes and root cause analysis.

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Ineffective Supply Chain Risk Management

Maintaining high standards of quality and ensuring compliance with specifications and standards throughout construction projects are crucial to success, especially where there is reliance upon an efficient supply chain. Failure to maintain high standards and compliance can lead to project delays and financial losses.
 
Solution: COMET connects - By offering an intelligent supply chain risk assessment tool, it enables better risk understanding and management. By ensuring every stage of the supply chain delivers within specification and on-time, COMET enhances project efficiency and minimises disruptions.

Explore how COMET's supply chain solution has benefited industry leaders. Learn more about COMET Supply Chain.

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Project Delays and Cost Overruns

In order to ensure the success of any construction project, it is important to be aware of the potential challenges that may arise. While issues such as project delays and cost overruns can be frustrating, they can also serve as valuable learning opportunities. By identifying the root causes of these problems, project managers can work to implement clearer and more effective management processes and procedures. This approach can help to minimise confusion and inefficiencies, ultimately leading to a more streamlined and successful project lifecycle.
 
Solution: COMET empowers…by designing project management processes which remove the risk of lack of clarity and inconsistency. Moving from complexity to clarity, processes are designed with the end user in mind, rather than an auditor, resulting in procedures are clear and simple to follow.

If you're struggling with similar challenges, explore how COMET's Design for Business (DfB) offering can help streamline your processes and improve project outcomes. Join industry leaders like Hochtief who have leveraged COMET to enhance project management practices and achieve operational excellence.

Complex Regulatory Environment

The construction industry operates under a complex regulatory environment, requiring organisations to navigate a maze of regulations, permits, and standards that vary from country to country.
 
Solution: COMET's intelligent audit analysis module is designed to facilitate compliance while streamlining the auditing process. The module can be configured to meet specific project and organisational needs, empowering auditors with the tools they need to conduct thorough audits. COMET ensures that evidence is gathered and standards are adhered to, providing peace of mind to organisations.

Discover how COMET's audit solutions help companies streamline compliance efforts.

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Foundation for Success: Enhance Efficiency with COMET

The construction industry plays a major role in promoting economic development and providing non-monetary benefits to many countries. However, it is also one of the most hazardous industries, with 45 fatal injuries to construction workers in Great Britain during the 2022/23 reporting year, the most of any industry sector. Therefore, ensuring safety, increasing efficiency, and complying with regulations are critical for the industry's success.

COMET is an ideal partner for achieving excellence in this field, with its customer-centric approach, COMET offers solutions designed to address the unique challenges of the construction industry. From incident investigation and root cause analysis to advanced data analytics and risk management, COMET provides a comprehensive suite of tools to streamline operations, enhance safety practices, and ensure regulatory compliance.

With years of industry expertise and a commitment to innovation, COMET is the perfect solution for construction companies looking to build resilience, drive efficiency, and achieve success in today's competitive landscape.

Experience and Commitment
With COMET, you not only gain access to a wealth of expertise but also benefit from a dedicated team committed to reducing incidents, control risk and assure operations.  

Benefits:

Expertise: Benefit from over 400 years of combined experience in incident investigation and root cause analysis. Our team is dedicated to understanding the challenges and risks our clients face, offering insights and solutions to mitigate risks and enhance safety protocols.

Innovation is part of our DNA: With COMET, you harness our advanced tech expertise to develop innovative solutions designed to address the unique challenges of the construction industry. From streamlining processes to enhancing safety measures, we're committed to driving excellence in construction management.

24-7 Incident Investigation Support: If you require immediate support with an ongoing live investigation, contact us 24/7 and we will deploy an experienced investigator(s) to your location or facility.
Operational Efficiency and Safety Enhancement
Explore how COMET can streamline processes and enhance safety practices to ensure a smoother and safer work environment:

Benefits:

Manage all your Incidents: Streamline processes and improve efficiency with COMET’s configurable incident management and classification module, ensuring timely resolution of safety incidents and near-misses.
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Effective Incident Investigations: Enhance safety practices and visibility with our unique incident investigation tools and proven methodology, minimising the occurrence of safety incidents and ensuring a safer work environment.
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Comprehensive Training Programmes: Access flexible training programmes tailored to your organisation's needs, delivered virtually or in-person. Our training offerings cover a wide range of topics, including incident investigation, root cause analysis, leadership, and ED&I, ensuring that your team is equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed.
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Data is King


Benefits:

AI Data Analytics Tool: COMET Signals enables you to gain valuable insights into infrastructure issues, identify trends and patterns in your data to proactively address potential risks, improve decision-making and optimise resource allocation based on data-driven insights.Harnessing the power of data can unlock numerous benefits, providing insights, informing decision-making, and driving operational excellence. At COMET, we recognise the importance of data in the construction industry and offer robust solutions to help organisations leverage their data effectively.
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Advanced Analytics Across All Modules: Access advanced analytics capabilities across all COMET modules and integrate with data visualisation platforms like Power BI for enhanced data visualisation and deeper insights.

Tech and Automation Services: We can help you automate your repetitive tasks and business processes by streamlining your work, and by working closely with our software development team, using intuitive software solutions and bespoke business applications.

Are you ready to foster a culture of continuous learning?

Embrace a blame-free culture where error is viewed as an opportunity for improvement. With a focus on Human and Organisational Performance, our unique Learning Teams toolkit, COMET Resilience, facilitates open and honest learning conversations, nurturing a culture of continuous improvement.
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Explore the Advantages of COMET

Your Partner in Risk Intelligence.

By partnering with COMET, construction companies gain the necessary support to mitigate the challenges of the industry with confidence. This helps them protect their projects, workforce, and reputation while driving innovation and achieving performance excellence at every stage.

Risk Insights at Every Stage:
COMET enables you to gain in-depth visibility into construction-specific risks and incidents across projects and operations, empowering proactive risk management and mitigation efforts at every stage of the construction process.

End-to-end Risk Management Capabilities:
Upgradable to include the ‘full’ COMET suite, featuring our incident investigation, incident management, audit & inspection, supply chain and AI data analytics software modules.

Seamless Cloud Accessibility

Access COMET's robust risk intelligence tools effortlessly from any location, at any time, without the need for software installation or maintenance. Stay connected and informed, whether you're on-site or in the office.

Scalable Solutions Tailored to Your Needs:

All of our COMET modules can be purchased as a standalone solution and upgraded as your construction risk management requirements evolve. Adapt to changing project dynamics and expand your risk management capabilities without disruption.

Configurable Risk Management Solutions

Configure COMET's suite of solutions to align perfectly with your construction organisation's needs. COMET was designed to fit seamlessly into your construction workflows and processes.

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Supervisor Training: A bespoke and transformational solution for the construction industry

BCM Construction Ltd. decided to work with COMET to create a training programme to deliver the latest supervisory and leadership skills. Both companies had worked together previously and COMET were chosen for their ability to efficiently design, develop and roll-out successful leadership programmes worldwide.

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Frequently asked questions

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Don’t believe us, check out what our clients say.

Explore real-world experiences from our satisfied customers who have harnessed the power of COMET. From streamlined processes to enhanced safety, their stories highlight the impact of our solution.

Helped us reduce first aid cases by 29%

"When we adopted COMET, we were looking for a root cause analysis tool that would help us identify underlying causes before they lead to incidents. Since adopting the tool, COMET has helped us reduce first aid cases by 29% in the last year, contributing to Corning’s best-ever safety record in 2022.

On top of this, the support from the COMET team cannot be underestimated – they are always on-hand to resolve any issues in a timely and efficient manner. I would highly recommend COMET and the STC INSISO team to anyone looking for an audit and investigation tool."

Guillermo Castillo, Global EHS Leader – OCS Division at Corning Inc.
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COMET helped us understand the systemic root causes

"The main value to LR of adopting COMET is the newfound organisational leadership education and enlightenment as to the reasons behind incident types, particularly  those which hurt us most in terms of frequency. A recent example was repeat microsleep incidents affecting our surveyors. COMET helped us understand the systemic root causes and gave the Board sufficient confidence to invest over £2 million in a preventive action programme which is already bearing fruit in terms of this type of incident reduction."

James Pomeroy,
Group Director HSEQ at Lloyds Register
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We’re maximising its value across the business

"Viridor is a relatively recent adopter of the COMET RootApp tool but is already beginning to really reap the rewards of a first class investigation system.
We’re maximising its value across the business through consistency of approach and ensuring we really do get to the root cause of our incidents so we can set the right actions to prevent recurrence.

The STC team has been hugely helpful and supportive in getting this new process implemented."

Richard Robinson,
Head of SHQS at Viridor
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Probably the best root cause analysis process and toolkit

"Probably the best root cause analysis process and toolkit. But beyond enabling us to adequately identify root causes, COMET also allows us to track trends using the root cause codes to help address systemic opportunities in our management system."

Bertrand Piredda, Director of HSES Cummins Power Systems
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Feels more like a partnership

"Borr Drilling adopted COMET across the business in 2017/2018 and since then our relationship and trust with the STC INSISO COMET team has grown immensely.

Any issues are quickly resolved or addressed and a feature of the relationship I enjoy most is that it feels more like a partnership than that of a more traditional vendor/client arrangement."

Thomas Sunde, QHSE Director at Borr Drilling
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Positive and encouraging feedback

"STC INSISO recently delivered the 3-day COMET practitioner course to GSK R&D (UK) engineering and safety professionals.

The COMET team created a bespoke course that was well received by GSK R&D with lots of positive and encouraging feedback."

Ray Duffy, EHS Manager - Projects & Engineering at GSK
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