SciShield

Essential to growing our safety culture

Vorteile:

How it created a path for communication between researchers and the labs and our safety group. That and how we were able to engage the researchers in their own health and safety the systematic and scalable way.

Nachteile:

Any kind of change is difficult, but the BioRAFT team helped us make this change with the least amount of pain I think is possible.

BioRAFT is so much better than our previous audit program

Kommentare: I generally use BioRAFT to look into problems associated with individual laboratories.

Vorteile:

BioRAFT is so much better than our previous audit program. We went from a 30% response rate to 100% response rate in a single audit cycle.

Nachteile:

The system could be a little more intuitive. It could also be more customizable to the needs of the individual institutions.

Bioraft / SciShield is a Chemical Compliance Software That Fails to Deliver

Kommentare: Bioraft - Scishield is a very low-quality system with no SDS libraries, no real-time inventory tracking, no automated GSH, haz class reporting, and poor customer technical support. Offering a simple download of an Excel spreadsheet that the user enters with no function defeats the purpose of having software in the first place.

Vorteile:

Lightweight Basic Functionality (very basic) Ability to upload training data

Nachteile:

Bioraft - Scishield is a low-quality system for chemical inventory management required by laboratories, industries, and organizations that deal with hazardous materials and will need to rely on accurate chemical tracking, hazards, and safety. Cons: The software 1) Bioraft - SciShield is one of the lowest-quality chemical inventory management systems on the market. 2) Bioraft - SciShield does not facilitate regulatory compliance due to inability to generate detailed reports, track expiration dates, and ensure proper storage. It lacks integration with other essential systems and safety compliance databases. 3) Bioraft - SciShield has poorly designed menus and unintuitive controls and is outdated and clunky. 4) Bioraft - Scishield has no link to safety data sheets other than a link to Google search, no SDS library management, and offers a simple downloaded CSV of what each lab manually entered. 5) Bioraft - Scishield provides no information in database format to download a list of your chemicals, with corresponding hazard classes, GSH codes, pictograms, proper cabinet container storage, or sortable queries based on any criteria. 6) Bioraft- Scishield, has bugs, fails to save data, often can not add chemicals due some type of error, and it is very clear the developers care very little about delivering a functional product offering insufficient customer support. Cons: Customer Support A frustrating software often comes with poor customer support. Here concerns are not taken seriously, and suggestions are not welcome. The technical representative was dismissive, unhelpful, and he lacked basic knowledge about the issue and its software. To make matters worse, no return phone calls, menu options on call in , etc etc. Universities should invest in systems that are essential for ensuring accuracy, safety, and long-term efficiency. This is not one of them.

2 Years with BioRAFT

Kommentare: Overall, I have felt that after implementation of the software for our research program, we have increased responses, transparency, feedback and overall support for our labs. No software will be perfect, the initial set up of BioRAFT took time to implement and to fit our safety program, but with the help from BioRAFT support we were able to enhance our program with the adoption of the platform.

Vorteile:

The BioRAFT software has been an integral part of our research safety program. We adopted BioRAFT around 2 years ago and have worked with the BioRAFT team to tailor the software to better fit our research safety program. One of the main benefits of the software is the ability for enhanced correspondence between the research lab and our safety team. The utilization of the correspondence tab, response features, and comment box has allowed us to review feedback and provide better support for our researchers. Furthermore, automated follow-up reminders were critical in maintaining consistent compliance with our research labs. Our ability to set it and forget it, having BioRAFT reminder emails do the work has allowed us to work more efficiency while maintaining records.

Nachteile:

One of the most frequent complaints is initial usability on the researchers side. The initial set up of lab profiles for some of the labs seems to cause some issues. The wizard set up process has helped guide the user in setting up their lab profiles. From the point of view of an EHS professional, limitations of the software can be seen, to some extent, with the ability to modify some of the features. We were hoping to modify the columns for location spaces (labs), to include date inspected, but this option was not possible after talking with BioRAFT support.

Review system implementation engineer

Kommentare: Overall usage perspective system is very good. More customizations needed. Each module requires some improvements.
Overall system implementation and support is good. Timely responses for minor tickets. Some tickets which involves more technical work either needs to be fixed on a timely manner or users need to be updated on the status.

Vorteile:

. Implementation phase is very interactive and supportive. . System is easy to administer but bit slow. . Records keeping is great. . Presentation of dashboards and data at the lab levels are very useful. . User friendly wizards.

Nachteile:

. Application is too slow. . More customizations needed for dashboards and Reports. . More customer centric customizations needed. . Inspection reports need to be more visual. Right now they are all text and not that catchy. . Pictures from inspection reports are not easily accessible. . Permissions at each level (Center level, lab levels) need to be improved. . Institution level permissions need to be added. . Support tickets need to be addressed on a timely manner. We are very new in using the system. Some tickets still not addressed. . Bio and RAD modules need to be customized more as per customer requirements. . Some basic features in trainings are still missing. Like single place view of training calendar. . Administrators should have permissions to view the activities log. . Help and support guides need to be added to the system itself. . Need incident management module. . If the system has interactive learning profile (Training module) it will be great.