Schools Get Smart with New Tech to Get Safely Back to Learning; Education Institutions in Multiple States Rolling Out iAuditor Technology

iAuditor Premium Now Free to Support K-12 Schools

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SafetyCulture, the world’s leading platform for workplace safety and efficiency, is now making its commercial technology available to K-12 and higher education administrators, campuses and entire school districts nationwide. Its flagship app iAuditor will now be free of charge to K-12 schools.

As the nation grapples with the best way to safely manage the critical delivery of education, schools at all levels are individually exploring reopening plans and procedures. Adding to the challenge are inconsistent COVID-19-related safety guidelines, standards and compliance processes across the country.

SafetyCulture has built a reputation globally for helping industry leaders like Cathay Pacific, GE, IKEA and Waldorf Astoria to digitize and adhere to safety, cleanliness and quality protocols. The same technology used in these commercial and industrial settings is now available to help manage virus contamination in the nation’s schools.

“We’ve all seen pen and paper safety task and checklists on the backs of certain doors, but now think of that in digital form, and entirely oriented toward the shared goal of mitigating the risk of COVID-19 on school campuses nationwide,” said Randal Bassett, Superintendent of Schools, Fontana Unified School District, Fontana, California. “We are excited to partner with SafetyCulture to bring safety and process improvements to our school sites. We will be rolling out the iAuditor app to our 45 schools to help keep our 36,000 students and nearly four thousand staff safe from exposure while on campus. We expect to see other districts join us in making consistent and auditable safety a priority in all of our schools.”

With easy-to-use digital checklists and technology from SafetyCulture, those returning to school in person in the fall will benefit from consistent and easily-verifiable safety and cleaning protocols based on CDC guidelines. Administrators, teachers, parents and students will be able to view their school’s publicly available real-time data dashboard that shows the status of conditions and cleaning activities on the campus. Checklists and protocols can be modified to reflect the unique conditions and characteristics of each individual campus.

“Our technology has already helped some of the world’s largest companies get safely back to business in heavily hit industries like retail and hospitality. We're now focused on helping schools meet the immense challenge of a safe return. Our business is armed with learnings from working with high-risk industries and we’re ready to put this experience to use to support the nation’s schools,” commented Bob Butler, General Manager, Americas, SafetyCulture.

For education safety-related checklists and resources please see the following:

• School Reopening Checklist
• School Transportation Checklist
• School Cleaning & Disinfecting Schools
• School Food Preparation Checklist

In addition to supporting schools, SafetyCulture is helping companies globally with its Safely Back to Business initiative. More than 75,000 individuals worldwide are using SafetyCulture’s iAuditor app to complete daily COVID-19 risk assessments and inspections.

Please watch this video to learn how iAuditor can be implemented in schools.

For more information on SafetyCulture’s solutions for education or to sign up for free as a K-12 school, please visit: https://safetyculture.com/safely-back-to-learning/.

About SafetyCulture

SafetyCulture is a global technology company which helps businesses around the world to achieve safer and higher quality workplaces, with innovative audit technology. Its flagship product – iAuditor – is a mobile inspection platform that simplifies the auditing process, making it easy for anyone to monitor and manage safety and quality from a mobile device - 26,000 companies across the world complete over 600 million checks per year.