What tangible metric should managers prioritize when evaluating new safety or monitoring systems?
Quantify its impact on staff time saved per shift
When community managers evaluate proposed new safety or monitoring systems, the text strongly advises looking beyond the surface-level advertised safety features. The most effective justification for investment comes from quantifying the technology's direct impact on operational efficiency, specifically staff workload. A practical example provided is calculating the actual minutes saved per shift due to automation of specific documentation tasks. If a system saves a team 15 minutes three times a day across a large team, this translates into a measurable figure—like 15 hours of labor recovered weekly—which serves as a far more concrete metric for justifying the financial investment than relying on general claims about improved safety.
