MainSched is a suite of interacting programs designed primarily as a tool to plan, manage and automate scheduling and recording of tasks as they are carried out.

One of the programs in the suite provides the tools for "Occupational Health and Safety Planning and Scheduling".

Occupational Health and Safety Planning and Scheduling
Objectives:

To provide the means of easily managing hazards and hazard planning, for capturing information and generating the required reports for occupational safety and health authorities.

Forms and reports comply with the requirements of OSH (Occupational Safety and Health Service), CAA (Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand), and MSA (Maritime Safety Authority of New Zealand). See below for further details.

MainSched stores details of transport, plant machines and buildings in a list called the "Inventory". This inventory is categorized into vehicles, plant and buildings each of which may be grouped by user defined types such as truck or loader (vehicle), lathe or packing table (plant) or office block/warehouse (building).

You may select which category is displayed in the inventory list by using a selection drop down box. You may also set which category is displayed each time the inventory list is opened. This is an option in the "Setup Wizard".

MainSched Health and Safety also allows the user to store a list of jobs and job related tasks and a list of personnel who may be involved with health and safety issues.

The "Daily Task Minder" is a very quick and easy tool for managing tasks on a daily basis and may include anything from a reminder about a phone call to make tomorrow, to a reminder to buy somebody a birthday present next week.

General notes may be kept in the on-board multi-page notebook provided for convenience.

MainSched Health and Safety provides tools for managing workplace hazards and accidents, and allows relationships to be formed between accidents and hazards, between accidents or hazards and inventory items (transport, plants or buildings), and/or jobs and job related tasks.

MainSched allows you to set up hazard plans which include hazards and related tasks such as hazard reviewing, work to be done or training to be carried out. These tasks may be scheduled by date periods and may be categorized as once only tasks or tasks that are rescheduled continuously.

When tasks become due, i.e. the current date falls within a user defined flag period, they are added to a Hazard Review Request report.

These Hazard Review Requests are passed to the departments that carry out the tasks. When completed, the "Hazard Review Requests" are signed and returned to the office where MainSched is updated accordingly. Once updated, MainSched will automatically reschedule tasks ready to add to Hazard Review Request reports when those tasks become due again.

In the event of an accident, a company is required by law to record details in a report that should be sent to the appropriate authorities. An accident investigation may also need to be carried out. MainSched provides the necessary forms for entering the required information from which the necessary reports may be generated.