Notes from building Kinetiq Nexus.
What we shipped this month. What broke. What we'd do differently if we started over. Short, occasional, honest.
Latest
04 / 04Why I'm skeptical of EHS dashboards.
I help build a dashboard for a living, so take this with the appropriate salt. What these screens optimize for, what an EHS program actually needs, and the question an operator asked me that I could not answer.
ReadThe toolbox talk was already in the RCA.
A short note on noticing that the root cause analysis already contains most of the next morning's toolbox talk — what I had been getting wrong, and the loops a good platform shows you that nobody pitched.
ReadWhy this exists.
A short note from Jeffrey Reynolds, Chief Systems Architect, on what he got tired of waiting for in EHS software, what made him sit down and start building, and what to expect from this blog.
ReadWhen the audit asks why.
A note on why a structured 5-Why analysis grounded in the regulation belongs inside the inspection workflow — what we almost got wrong, and the one guardrail I would not let go of.
ReadWant a walkthrough?
Thirty minutes against your actual MSHA inspection history. You bring last year's citations; we walk through what the platform would have done.
Get in touch