| With Medgate’s GX2 release, organizations will benefit from a complete integrated OH&S platform that will allow them to manage all aspects of their occupational health and safety programs.
The cornerstone of Medgate GX2 is a comprehensive safety software suite that will provide organizations with a complete enterprise-wide solution to manage safety compliance and programs. The release also includes enhanced environmental management features, a new ergonomics suite, and robust new business intelligence functionality that will allow users to turn data into meaningful OH&S business information.
About Medgate GX2:
Below is a description of the modules that have been added/enhanced in Medgate GX2, along with the suites where they will be found.
Medgate GX2 Schematic
Snapshot of GX2 Enhancements:
| Module Name |
Medgate suite(s) where module is offered |
Description |
| Risk Assessment |
Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, Environmental, Ergonomics |
This powerful, flexible, and intuitive new module will enable you to plan and build an effective risk assessment program. From a broad scope, it will allow you to:
- Manage your inventory of jobs/task/processes
- Collect task/hazard/control information
- Calculate pre and post control risk
- Implement preventive actions
- Perform ongoing analysis to continuously evaluate and mitigate risk
- Integrate risk data with incident investigations
- Configure your COSHH tool and conduct assessments
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| Incident Management |
Safety, Environmental |
This robust module allows organizations to:
- Collect comprehensive incident data
- Create an accurate picture of the event
- Identify root causes and learning points
- Implement corrective actions
- Ensure proper incident notification up the chain of command
New enhancements to this module include:
- Decision tree functionality for root cause analysis
- Integration with risk assessment for sharing of data / insights / lessons learned.
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| Compliance Management |
Safety, Environmental, Ergonomics |
This valuable new module is a hub to manage all compliance-related data and satisfy various legal and other requirements. It will enable you to:
- Create a library of legal and other requirements
- Manage and satisfy ISO 14001 / OSHAS 18001/ANSI Z10 requirements
- Separate management of safety and environmental compliance as needed
- Manage permits
- Connect compliance requirements to various parts of your safety system (ie, job inventory, inspections)
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| Findings & Actions |
Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental, Ergonomics |
This enhanced module allows you to consolidate all finding and actions in one database and enables you to automate and streamline your action tracking and approval process. Enhancements to this module will allow you to:
- Automatically trigger a finding and corresponding corrective action from a response to a questionnaire
- Verify proper completion of actions
- Create recurring actions
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| Audits & Inspections |
Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental, Ergonomics |
This heavily enhanced module will allow you to manage both audits (less frequent, larger scale/scope) and inspections (smaller, more frequent/repeated).
Enhancements to this module will allow you to:
- Create recurrent ‘Audit Profiles’ and assign to multiple auditors / inspectors
- Customize audit checklists to your needs with use of the robust questionnaire module
- Configure automatic reminders to be sent to auditors and/or their supervisors
- Allow inspectors to easily track completion status of inspections and corrective actions generated from the inspections
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Additional Enhancements
The Medgate GX2 release also includes some additional enhancements to our platform:
Business Intelligence
In addition to many canned, flexible reports, dashboards, and a powerful report writer currently available in the Medgate platform, GX2 will help improve business intelligence with a powerful data cube:
- Analyze target and actual metrics generated in the Medgate system
- Incorporate data collected in other systems or imported into Medgate
- Analyze / report on data by HR reporting hierarchy, business units, or site tree hierarchy
NEW! Ergonomics Suite
We have added a new suite that is tailored specifically to the requirements of ergonomists. Some of the modules that will be available in this suite are listed in the table below. Here is a summary of the main features offered in the ergonomics suite:
- Conduct ergonomic assessments using common tools (NIOSH, REBA, RULA, etc.)
- Create and configure new questionnaires / assessment tools as needed and include appropriate images (ie: posture images) as needed
- Effectively track ergonomic findings & actions
Interested in learning more about this release?
Additional details will be released soon. To view Medgate’s current product offering, please click here.
The launch of GX2 is scheduled for December 2011. If you would like to learn more about GX2, please schedule a demo or contact us.
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