Managing Health & Safety across multiple manufacturing and engineering sites brings a familiar challenge: how do you keep processes consistent, accessible and easy for employees to follow across every location?
For AVK UK, the answer has been to take a practical, phased approach to digital transformation.
Operating across multiple UK sites, AVK UK manufactures valves, hydrants, fittings and accessories that support critical water, wastewater, gas and fire protection infrastructure.
As part of the global AVK Group, maintaining high Health & Safety standards across its operations is an important part of how the business works.
Working with EHSwise, AVK UK is bringing key Health & Safety activities into one connected digital environment helping employees report issues more easily while giving managers greater visibility across operations.
Starting with Everyday Health & Safety Processes
Rather than attempting to digitise every Health & Safety process at once, AVK UK began with the activities employees and managers use regularly.
The initial rollout focused on areas including:
- Incident Reporting
- Hazard Reporting
- Rapid Fire Audits
- Corrective Actions
This approach allowed AVK UK to introduce a consistent digital way of working around familiar processes, helping make adoption more practical for employees across different sites.
Instead of incidents, hazards, inspections and follow-up actions existing as separate processes, information can be captured and managed within a connected system.
For Health & Safety teams, this creates clearer oversight. For employees, it provides a straightforward way to report and engage with safety processes as part of their everyday work.
Making Workplace Inspections Faster and More Accessible
One particularly interesting part of AVK UK’s digital journey has been the transformation of its Rapid Fire Audits.
These short, focused workplace inspections are designed to help supervisors and managers regularly identify safety, housekeeping and operational issues.
Using EHSwise, AVK UK has digitised these audits and made them accessible through QR codes, allowing inspections to be completed directly from the workplace.
When an issue is identified, it can be recorded, tracked and actioned through the platform, creating clearer accountability and improving visibility of outstanding actions.
The result is a process designed around frequent engagement rather than relying solely on periodic safety reviews.
Creating Consistency Across Multiple Sites
For multi-site manufacturers, technology alone does not create better Health & Safety management.
The real value comes from establishing processes that people can follow consistently — regardless of their location.
By providing common digital workflows for reporting, inspections and actions, AVK UK is building a more standardised approach across its operations while maintaining the flexibility required by different working environments.
As Paul Race, Operations Director at AVK UK, explains:
“The platform provides a centralised approach to managing Health & Safety activities, giving employees the ability to report issues easily while providing managers with greater visibility across our operations.”
From Initial Rollout to Wider Adoption
AVK UK’s digital transformation is continuing.
As additional processes are introduced, the organisation plans to expand its connected approach to Health & Safety management and explore further ways the flexibility of EHSwise can support wider business requirements.
The platform’s multilingual capabilities also create opportunities for potential deployment across the wider AVK Group.
The journey highlights an important lesson for organisations considering digital Health & Safety transformation: you do not necessarily need to change everything at once.
Starting with high-use processes, making them easy for employees to access and connecting the information behind them can provide a strong foundation for wider digitalisation.
Discover how AVK UK is using EHSwise to standardise Health & Safety processes, digitise Rapid Fire Audits and create a more connected approach to safety management across its operations.
