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Reopening Your Business After the Lockdown: Tips for the New Normal
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has proven to be the ultimate disruption in many industries. From retail to manufacturing, no business has escaped the unexpected challenges brought on by the outbreak. The economic toll of social distancing has been astronomical—millions have been laid off, businesses have closed their doors permanently, and the demand for essential goods has risen […]
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How Form.com Can Be of Service During the Ongoing Crisis
At Form.com, one of our core cultural pillars is “to be of service.” That means during this challenging time, we are responding with this mantra in mind and trying to do our part to help out.
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Daily Operations
4 Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Form-Based Operations
Most businesses deal with forms on a regular basis, but many aren’t sure how to get the most out of them. In fact, some companies become so frustrated or disenchanted with forms that they outright ruin them through neglect or mismanagement. Do the following issues sound like what happens at your company?
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Quality
Manufacturing Forms – Uses Of Mobile Forms For Workers
Manufacturing workers of many different experience levels have to fill out forms on a regular basis. It’s not something you can perfect on your first day, and it’s often seen as a chore that plagues even veteran employees. With the complicated and diverse nature of forms in manufacturing, it’s easy to mix things up and […]
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Insights
4 Ways Integrated Data Collection Solutions Reduce Excessive Emails
Email is still the preferred method of business communication according to a recent survey from Adobe</a — and it’s a major timesink. Workers spend roughly 3 hours a day reading and replying to emails. To boot, the average U.S. worker has around 200 unopened emails in their inbox and receives another 90 each day!
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Safety
Incident vs Accident vs Near-Miss – What’s the Difference?
In virtually every industry, a variety of adverse events will inevitably happen. That’s why it’s critical to understand the difference between these events and how to respond appropriately. In this blog, we’ll discuss the difference between incidents, accidents, and near-misses. We’ll also tell you about the best tool for dealing with all three.
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Compliance
5 Reasons Why a Mobile Solution Will Revolutionize Your CAPAs
CAPAs, or corrective and preventive actions, are critical components in your company’s response to non-conformity and undesirable situations. Because CAPAs form the basis for improvements throughout your product lifecycle, their quality, speed, and accuracy determine how effective your next move can be.
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Safety
How To Write An Incident Report – 5 Easy Steps
An incident report is one of the most critical documents used in the investigation of a workplace accident, near-miss, illness, or injury. Incident reports are so significant that using anything but the best approach to creating them can spell trouble. Missing crucial details, creating unnecessary delays, and making critical mistakes are just a few of […]
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OpX
5 Benefits Of Converting Paper Forms To Digital Forms
Paper has its place in every industry, but when it comes to capturing error-free data quickly and efficiently, going digital has tremendous benefits in comparison. Despite this undeniable fact, nearly half (48%) of the companies polled in our 2019 Trends & Insights report still rely on paper to collect and share data.
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Safety
Safety Inspection vs. Safety Audit: What’s the Difference?
Even though industry veterans may use the terms interchangeably, safety inspections and safety audits are two very different functions with a similar goal: keeping workers safe. Here’s the biggest difference between these two safety processes:
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Safety
3 Ways to Make Food Safety Smarter, Faster, and More Efficient
Food safety is the most heavily regulated aspect of food service and production. Often, it’s also the least optimized. At Form.com, we’ve worked with many companies whose food safety processes are isolated from relevant functions and the next logical steps. This isolation creates a barrier between issues and their resolutions, and it prevents daily activities […]
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Task Management
No More Spreadsheets! 5 Reasons To Upgrade to Digital Forms
It’s like something from a nightmare: your “one spreadsheet to rule them all,” the critical document that calculates essential information about your business, just stopped working. It’s spitting out gibberish, and you don’t have a backup. What happened, why did it happen, and how do you fix it?
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