Work Safety Application

Posted on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021

Client	David Summers
Professor(s)	Leanne Seaward,
Program	Computer Programming
Students	Michael Rayson, Masoumeh Mirzaeepourgelvarzkh, Shipa Neupane, Kefen Yan, Dhruvkumar Patel

Project Description:

Our client is David Summers who works as a labourer for the Tomlinson construction group. This company is based in Nepean who specializes in all sectors:
• Municipal
• Provincial
• Federal
• Residential
• Industrial
• Commercial
• Institutional

The issue that David had was facilitating the transition from paper Safety Data Sheet (SDS) information to electronic SDS information. At the moment, when an incident occurs on a worksite someone needs to go retrieve the SDS information to understand how to approach dealing with the hazardous spill. This is not only time consuming, but inefficient in a scenario when time is of utmost importance.

That is where our workplace safety application comes in. During this prototype phase, we’re connecting the users with an open-source repository of SDS information via the interface of a React-Native application. We’re using Node.js to create the back-end of our application which has connection with the above mentioned open source repository and Google Firebase which handles our user authentication. The goal is to provide a robust and user-friendly experience so that users of all capabilities and circumstances will be able to quickly retrieve the crucial information that they need.

We’ve learned many things from this development process, primarily since our front-end technology, React-Native, and our back-end technology, Node.js, are completely new to us. Tying in Google Firebase and suddenly we’ve covered developing a full stack application from the ground up.