Ep.192 - eMod Safety, Feat. Kaitlin Frank

Jason interviews Caitlyn Frank, co-founder of EMOD Safety and superintendent for Drone Construction. Caitlyn grew up on job sites, sat on a lunch pail asking her dad (who owned a GC business in Boston) why and how come, got an architecture degree but had nightmares about AutoCAD line weights, switched to construction management and went straight to the field. They discuss current conditions: daily safety plans pencil whipped, poor onboarding where workers have no idea what to do in emergencies, applications with 14 data fields collecting data for corporate where no decisions are made. EMOD reverse engineered from field needs not developer preferences.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Caitlyn's background: Grew up on job sites asking why and how come, architecture nightmares led to CM degree, superintendent creating safety platforms
• Industry changes post 2020: Safety hot priority, rethinking prefab offsite, stop trade stacking people on top of each other
• Current conditions EMOD combats: Pencil whipped safety plans, no real onboarding, workers don't know who to call in emergencies, disconnect between COVID checklist and pre-task plan
• Jason's tech pet peeve: Applications with 14 data fields for sake of collecting data that goes to corporate where no decisions made, no feedback loop
• Caitlyn's mission: If I can send one person home safe that wouldn't have gone home safe, I've done my job

We don't talk enough about people who lost that eye, don't have that range of motion, passed away, it's real enough to prevent drift into failure.

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