Supporting safer highway works with Known Hazards and Geo Alerts
With multiple sites, rotating teams and rigorous HSE demands, safety briefings are an inevitable part of day to day life across UK infrastructure – central to Chapter 8 compliance and effective risk control.
Re flow Field Management has recently introduced two new safety features to its software – Known Hazards and Geo Alerts – designed to make compliance much more intuitive without slowing teams down; features that are now live and ready to use.
Geo-tagging and building hazard databases
In an ideal world, companies would build up a resource of potential site issues – everything from difficult members of the public to potholes and uneven ground – so that they could be reused and updated as jobs come and go.
Traditional systems make storing and reusing insights on potential site issues difficult – everything from difficult members of the public to potholes and uneven ground.
Over time, records siloed to individual jobs sometimes lead to duplicated efforts and wasted opportunities, when ideally one record would function for future jobs too.
This is especially true on highways schemes, where teams move quickly between locations, TM layouts change frequently and permit conditions vary by authority.
Re-flow’s Known Hazards
Re flow’s Known Hazards feature has been designed to build a living record of site specific risks – a shared safety memory for organisations that they can return to time and time again. This is particularly valuable on schemes involving rolling maintenance, cyclical works or urban areas where risks recur from project to project.
Re-flow lets teams log hazards as early as pre site visits. Each entry includes a title, risk level, description and optional location marker (address, map pin or What3Words). This allows teams to record details such as limited visibility on bends, narrow verges, sensitive buried services, pedestrian desire lines through TM, or nearby high speed traffic.
Where relevant, operatives see these hazards automatically in their Start of Shift Briefing forms – or any other form they use on site as they go about their tasks.
For quick reference, an in app map view also displays all nearby hazards with tappable markers for details.
The next step is combining known hazards with geo alerts; geo alerts trigger notifications or alarms when operatives enter a defined radius of a dangerous hazard – a small detail but an effective safety step that required minimal time to set up – and which will last as long as the issue exists.
A better safety workflow
Combined together, these features create an automatic safety net across multiple sites – active in the background every day, and without fail. They also strengthen evidence for audits, support compliance, and improve communication across contractors, subcontractors, and client teams.
Add other digital field management tools – like near-miss forms that instantly upload to the office and trigger notifications to whoever is managing safety, and in app qualification records – and you have a complete loop of awareness, prevention and reporting.
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