Utilities Safety & Compliance Software
Comprehensive software to streamline fieldwork, permits, equipment tracking, and regulatory compliance.
Everything utility operations and compliance needs
Why SBN for utilities
Built for utility operations
SBN is a full-feature, intuitive platform designed by Utility industry operational leaders, EH&S, and compliance experts. SBN’s platform is designed to meet the operational demands of utility providers—facilitating real time collaboration between operational leaders and staff with inspections, safety procedures (e.g. lockouts), permits (e.g. confined space or hot work), work orders and incident tracking.
Feature Summary
Here are some of the ways our clients use SBN:
- Manage Incidents, Near Misses and Safety Observations
- Build equipment-specific lockout-tagout (LOTO) procedures and track lockouts
- Manage Safe Work Permits (e.g. Confined Space, Hot Work) from start-to-job complete
- Conduct Customized Site and Equipment inspections
- Track Safety Meetings, Trainings, and Toolbox Talks
The platform, feature by feature
Everything you need to run safer utilities
Any Device, Any Environment
Track field inspections, lockouts (LOTO), permits, and tasks, online or offline. Drive performance and accountability across distributed teams, sites, and equipment assets.
Our mobile-first tools allow utility teams to perform inspections, log corrective actions, and capture field data without returning to the office. Use real-time, rich image and geo-tagged data capture, dictate voice notes, include observations to document asset conditions or environmental concerns directly from the field.
A Unified Approach
No more fragmented workflows or siloed data.
Our mobile, QR, and web-based platform allows your team to seamlessly collaborate and conduct evaluations, observations, manage asset inventories, track tasks, and coordinate with compliance personnel in one secure, centralized system.
Push-button reporting using Simple But Needed’s utilities management software.
Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, and ISO requirements using pre-built or customizable templates and libraries.
Compliance Reporting Made Easy
Choose from pre-configured regulatory library templates for safety, maintenance, or outage inspections—or build your own to match internal processes, policies and protocols. Schedule and track compliance task execution and results. Generate compliance reports and audit documentation in just a click.
Documentation Done Right
SBN helps utilities maintain a complete digital record of inspections, LOTO procedures, and incident tracking.
Need to generate emergency response or audit documentation? Track substations or service line evaluations? Coordinate routine safety walkthroughs? Our tools help bring all of that together under one roof. Built-in tools enable push-button access to all of your routine safety records—like confined space entrant logs, LOTO clearance logs, and regulatory compliance tasks -without additional plugins or paperwork.
Efficiency Gains
Let your technicians focus on safety and uptime while SBN streamlines the rest. SBN users in the utility sector report efficiency gains of up to 75% for inspection and maintenance workflows, task tracking, and report generation.
Data Your Way
Use dashboards to uncover operational risks, compare performance across service areas, schedule auto-delivered reports to stakeholders, export custom filtered reports for deeper analysis or integrate to your analytics systems, e.g. PowerBI or Tableau using our fully API enabled platform.
Built for how you work
How Organizations Use Our Software
Hot Work
Issue and control hot work permits with the checks and sign-offs each job requires.
Incident Tracking
Capture, investigate, and close out incidents with a full audit trail.
Confined Space
Manage permit-required confined space entries from atmospheric testing through safe exit.
Near Miss
Log near misses and surface trends before they become incidents.
Facility Asset Tracking
Track equipment and facility assets with inspections, locations, and history in one place.
Ergonomic Self Evaluation
Let staff complete ergonomic self-assessments and route follow-ups automatically.
Compliance (ISO/NFPA/OSHA)
Stay audit-ready against ISO, NFPA, and OSHA requirements with built-in checklists.
LOTO Procedure Generation
Generate and manage lockout-tagout procedures for safe equipment servicing.
OSHA 300
Maintain OSHA 300 logs and recordkeeping that’s ready when auditors are.
Daily Safety Walkthroughs
Run daily walkthroughs and inspections from any device and assign corrective actions on the spot.