Maintaining, inspecting and testing fire and rescue equipment is paramount to the safety of staff and the community.
Pro-Cloud BlueLight’s test scheduling procedures ensure that assets are safe, usable and remain in action, not hidden from visibility throughout station workshops.
This module allows you to create and assign test activities to assets and personnel at the click of a button, which are configurable to your service’s requirements.
Assets that have been goods in into the Pro-Cloud BlueLight system are assigned a stock keeping unit (SKU), the system will allow you to set up questionnaires against that SKU to ensure equipment is tested in line with standard regulations.
Every task/test performed can have a customisable digital inspection checklist which allows for a questionnaire to be setup through the interface and answered when a user completes a task/test. The information is sorted against the activity history for the specific asset and can be reviewed in real-time through the interface. Questionnaires are fully configurable to suit each task/test and are easily set up and managed through Pro-Cloud BlueLight.
This modules aim is for management to gain a panoramic view of their entire service and associated workforce, clearly highlighting what work has been completed and when. Once tasks and tests are completed, all results are displayed in real-time on the Pro-Cloud BlueLights dashboard, revealing which tests have passed, failed or are incomplete. This allows management to fully analyse failure trends and make better procurement decisions based on these results.
Ensures all assets are tested and inspected when required
Ensures all test results are fully logged and audited in real-time
Fully configurable task and test management with test questionnaire and photographic evidence features
Task board calendar overview for improved management visibility of asset task and testing schedules
System alert capabilities such as test fail notifications
Full reporting capabilities to identify trends in test failures
Full reporting for legal and statutory requirements
Ensures all health and safety legislation is met (inbuilt PPE alerts)
Mark Naylor
Head of Response and Resilience
“During the Covid-19 pandemic, St John volunteers have already given hundreds of thousands of hours of their time, supporting the NHS in caring for patients on board ambulances, in hospitals and as part of vital community projects such as this year’s seasonal flu vaccinations, and that work continues. St John Ambulance is proud to have been asked to support NHS staff in getting ready to deliver a COVID-19 vaccination programme when a vaccine becomes available and whilst this has been an ongoing and discreet activity, knowing we have a solution such as Pro-Cloud to support the operation is vital. Pro-Cloud has been a great project to lead on behalf of the charity. The support received from the whole team at CSS has been outstanding throughout the tender, and pre implementation phases.”
Steve Eversfield
National Equipment Manager
“They have proven to be reactive to our requests for small changes in processes and capabilities and delivered on three specific development work streams. We have created over 250 locations and in the region of 300 vehicles. Two of our key tasks for the system, along with traditional asset management is to manage our National Medicine Supply & National Uniform Services. The Medicine Service is all stocked & recorded and will soon be rolled out across the country. Now we have started our full onboarding process, which is likely to take around 6 months of hard diligent asset checking, we do know that it will put us in a stronger place to deliver our wish to stand together with humanity as the countries National Health Auxiliary.”
Steve Eversfield
National Equipment Manager
“NYFRS evaluated several asset management systems on the market prior to its decision of awarding BlueLight the contract based on its potential compatibility of use within the fire and rescue sector. CSS & NYFRS have worked closely & continue to work in developing BlueLight as an essential asset management tool with a smooth end user experience for the wider service. The transition away from a database paper based system to a ‘live’ asset managed platform has already had a massive impact through accurate catalogue data, stores management, control of external testing & operational lifespans of equipment in the field through to appliance inventories and scheduled testing on station. NYFRS supplies personnel & crews on station have all embraced the BlueLight system and are seeing the benefits of their own personal ownership of the system. The end user engagement in BlueLight was at the forefront of the NY project ensuring that the system was easy to use thereby maintaining its data accuracy.”
Paul Wright
Staff feedback: “We are confident that the investment we have made, supported by the good relationship we have developed with CSS (Europe), will soon begin to pay for itself as well as greatly improving visibility and assurance that we are getting the best out of our operational assets and minimising our whole-life costs. So much so, that we are already making plans to utilise the BlueLight system to manage other assets across our organisation. Based on progress to date, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend another FRS to invite CSS (Europe) to tender for their AMS.“
“It was clear from the tendering process that Pro-Cloud AMS was a quality product that could meet our requirements and provide a value for money solution. Since awarding the contract, the team at CSS (Europe) have proven themselves to be both responsive and supportive in their approach to working closely with our project delivery team to develop their core Pro-Cloud system into the BlueLight solution that is tailored to meet our specific needs as a fire and rescue service.
Although we are still in the rollout phase, we are pleased with how CSS (Europe) have struck the right balance between being receptive to feed back from our staff and providing their own constructive challenge back to us about how we can streamline and improve the existing processes we use to managing our operational equipment assets that are so critical to our role protecting the communities of County Durham and Darlington.”
Andrew Hopkinson
Area Manager, Head of Assurance & Assets
“CDDFRS has found that BlueLight tasks and tests are relatively easy to set up and use as their guides are comprehensive in a step by step approach. We have over 35000 assets with over 500 individual tests set at frequency ranging from 1 day to 5 years. We like the fact that you can complete and generate a task on any Android or IOS device. We can monitor results and get notifications of any task test results.
Before we had BlueLight if equipment had been swapped i.e. move location, we would spend time and resources to ensure items were placed back in its original location. But now the item can stay in its new location as history and test stay with it and will now show up in its new location.
This has been a step forward for us moving a paper-based system to a digital system. Allowing us to go paper light, freeing up time and resources which are needed for efficient and effective working.“
Neil Storey
Assurance & Assets
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