Newcastle based Notify has developed a smart software platform that transforms Health & Safety at work.
Notify Technology, based at Cobalt Business Park, was founded by Duncan Davies and Andy Dumbell in 2017 with the launch of the Notify software platform. Now used in over 100 countries, the system helps organisations ensure compliance with Health & Safety regulations.
Today, Notify employs 14 people in Newcastle plus a development team of four in Romania. The platform allows companies to manage workplace incidents, accidents, and ill health, as well as creating digital checklists and risk assessments via its web-based platform and companion apps.
CEO Duncan said: “Andy and I launched Notify because we wanted to bring the benefits of technology to Health & Safety compliance. We saw that changes to sentencing guidelines and the negative PR associated with poor practices would lead organisations to digitise this business function.”
Like many businesses over the past twelve months, Notify moved their employees to a home-working basis. A number of clients used the Notify platform to help them keep employees safe and well whilst managing changes to work patterns and adapting to the new guidance. Duncan added: “Homeworking hasn’t been a huge challenge for us, thankfully, but the key thing was for us to understand what the impact was on our clients – and how we could help them use Notify to manage a quickly-changing working climate.
“Now, as we all prepare to return to offices, even businesses that don’t believe they’re at risk can underestimate the difficulty of managing Health & Safety requirements for people who might be working partly from home and partly in the office, or on-site. “What sounds like quite a simple step – returning to the office – has a 25-page government document covering things that companies should check and make sure happen.”
Notify, whose clients include Travis Perkins, Siemens Mobility and hundreds of smaller businesses, has seen a surge in interest in its software.
Duncan said: “Suddenly Health & Safety has been projected to the fore in every business. There are new challenges and issues to overcome which didn’t even exist back in early 2020. Not confronting these, or just failing to reassure employees that their health, safety and wellbeing is being looked after, could result in serious consequences for organisations.”