The
Ministry of Defence is trying to improve health and safety in
the forces with a £5m incident reporting system.
LogicaCMG has been selected by the
MoD to provide the new Incident Recording Information System
(Iris). Iris will enable improvements in health and safety across
all 300,000 MoD personnel through better information collection and
analysis.
It will also help improve the handling of any claims that may
result from health and safety incidents.
Under the 10-year service contract, LogicaCMG will be the prime
contractor responsible for delivering Iris capabilities.
The incident recording application will be based on a product
provided by Omniware, implemented by LogicaCMG and initially hosted
within its datacentres in South Wales.
LogicaCMG will also be providing data migration, training, and
through-life support services.
The system features an information capture tool, a workflow tool
and a management reporting layer to help the MoD gather information
on trends and frequency of accidents, in order to make equipment
and processes safer for staff.
It will also interface with both MoD and non-MoD systems for the
first time, making it easier to exchange information on incidents
and claims, and ultimately provide the MoD with more efficient
incident recording and claims management.
Iris will be rolled out in early 2008, across 1,000 users
ranging from incident and claims handlers to equipment managers and
MoD policy staff.
Michael Rutter, director of safety and environmental policy at
the MoD, said, “The Iris system is a very important element in
enabling the MoD to better discharge its duty of care to all our
people, whether they are servicemen and women, civil servants or
contractors.
“Through better understanding and increased awareness of
occupational health and safety risks, we will also be able to make
better use of resources in delivering our core tasks to produce
battle-winning people and equipment,” said Rutter.
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