Health & Safety Laboratory Boosts Efficiency and Performance with Real-Time Project Management
 
 

Health & Safety Laboratory Boosts Efficiency and Performance with Real-Time Project Management

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The Health & Safety Laboratory (HSL) supports the Health & Safety Executive and other organizations in managing health and safety risks to workers. Its work ranges from reactive investigations of industrial incidents to proactive research into a wide range of workplace health and safety issues.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Health & Safety Laboratory

  • “Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management empowers us to make best use of our people, processes, and tools to provide appropriate health and safety solutions in support of our vision to ‘enable a better working Britain.” – Mark White, System Manager Primavera, Program Management Unit, Health & Safety Laboratory

  • Gain enterprisewide view into the status of 1,000 workplace safety projects, valued from US$2,000 to US$2 million, all running concurrently with durations from two weeks to several years
  • Optimize cost forecasting accuracy, schedule feasibility, and resource usage
  • Support timely stakeholder reporting and fact-based decision-making and gain ability to quickly re-allocate resources with minimal disruption to the existing project portfolio

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Implemented Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, improved planning and forecasting accuracy, and enhanced flexibility to reallocate resources for handling new requests
  • Replaced multiple static, inflexible spreadsheet tools that impeded ability to complete projects on time and budget, increased administrative tasks, and delayed reporting and planning
  • Created a single Web-enabled repository for capturing and storing all data on current, historic, and pipeline projects
  • Gave 100 project managers, scientists, and department heads detailed data on each project in HSL’s portfolio, with drill-down views for data analysis and decision-making
  • Recorded hours worked by 400 project workers and automated integration with Oracle and third-party enterprise systems, which reduced time spent on administration and provided real-time data
  • Automated production of reports for the board and internal stakeholders
  • Built decision-maker dashboards with traffic-light alerts to provide early warnings for project budget and schedule overruns
  • Chose Primavera, due to its out-of-the-box, personalizable, intuitive functionality, preferred by more than 90% of users
  • Benefited from Oracle Partner Milestone Ltd.’s Primavera expertise to ensure on-time implementation and training

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