Coming Soon

• 📃 Editable Documents - No more having to download Word documents and re-upload them - with the new Editable Documents capability in Obbi, you'll soon be able to choose from a vast array of templates (e.g. Safety Statements, Emergency Contact List, Machinery SOPs etc.), and customise them from within Obbi in seconds.
  
   
• 🚜 Asset Register - Track all machinery and equipment at your club from one place, in Obbi. The new Asset Register module will allow greenkeepers, maintenance managers and mechanics to keep track of hours, maintenance issues, and pre-start checks against all their individual assets - making it easy to manage all in one place.

If you have any feedback or suggestions for Obbi, please get in touch at feedback@obbisolutions.com 

Obbi Updates

December 2024

⭐ Task Report Hub - View all task reports in one place, and filter by Team, Time, Category, Status (Passed/Failed), and more. This powerful new feature allows team leaders and general managers get a quick overview of which critical checks have been carried out by their teams.

Learn about the Task Report Hub

⭐ Risk Assessment Templates - We've worked with leading health and safety consultants to produce a starter pack of Risk Assessments designed for clubs. While this library will continue to grow over time, today we're pleased to offer a set of over 100 templates covering course maintenance, hospitality, and the workshop.

Learn about the Risk Assessment Template Library

⭐ Email Notifications for Messages - A highly requested update to the Messages functionality in Obbi now means that managers can choose to notify their staff via email when a message is sent. This makes it much easier to communicate critical safety information, whilst giving you the confidence that staff are kept fully aware. Please note: users can only receive email notifications if they have verified their email address.

🎨 Improvements and Updates

• The User Profile screen now shows all key information about an individual staff member in one place: Training Records, Documents Acknowledged, Certificate Expiry, Risk Assessment Acknowledgement and any Task Observations by their manager. This makes it much quicker and easier for managers to pull up all information they need about a particular staff member quickly, ensuring that records are easily produced when required.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Certificates will show their description instead of the original filename when listed to users.
• Fixed an issue that caused a CSRF token error to appear on the User Profile screen occasionally.

November 2024

⭐ Bulk Password Reset and Resend Welcome Email

• We have added the ability to Reset Passwords and Send Welcome Emails in bulk. This has been requested as a way of making it easier to manage your teams in Obbi, and is available from your Admin > Users page today.

🎨 Improvements and Updates

• Modules will now automatically retry upload (up to 10 times) if an issue occurs during processing
• Improved the performance of data reports on Corrective Actions
• Improved the rendering of PDFs used as part of a Training Module
• Team managers now get an alert if a member of their team raises an Incident
• General performance improvement across all screens of Obbi
• “Device” users (e.g. shared tablets) no longer show in staff reports or drop-down menus
• Added support for Word Document files (.DOCX) as attachments on Messages
• Improved the user experience of adding and saving comments on task line items

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where adding a photo to a task report without saving the comments first could remove the comments
• Images with very large dimensions are no longer failing to process
• Fixed an issue where signatures were difficult to read in full screen view due to the background colour used
• Fixed an issue caused by pressing a PIN button whilst the user was logging in

October 2024

⭐ Risk Assessments

• Define risk assessments by identifying hazards, documenting existing safety controls, and setting up dynamic follow-up actions with notifications to your team. Plus, the new Safety Action Plan helps you keep track of all follow-up actions across your club, streamlining all paperwork down to a powerful dashboard. Click here to learn more.

⭐ Task Template Library

• Access over 100 pre-built checklists across key areas like Buildings and Facilities, Environment, Food Safety, and more. Customise them to fit your club's specific needs with ease, then distribute to staff with a single click.

⭐ Safety Essentials Training Videos

• Equip your staff with essential safety knowledge through our new training videos, produced in partnership with HealthMatters. Covering areas such as Fire Safety, Manual Handling, Slips Trips and Falls, and much more - these 10-min video courses are provided free of charge to all existing Obbi customers. As a special offer, anyone can watch the full video on Fire Safety here now: Safety Essentials - Fire Safety

⭐ New Cloud Infrastructure

• As part of our continuing efforts to develop the Obbi service, we performed a major cloud infrastructure upgrade this month. This will allow faster response times, quicker processing of data, and the ability to scale up the Obbi service automatically in times of peak usage.

🎨 Improvements and Updates

• Managers of teams will now receive an alert in Obbi and a notification email when an incident is raised in one of their teams.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Messages were not sorting correctly by Name
• Fixed an issue where “optional” values on Tasks were still being reported as missing if there was a numeric range validation applied.
• Fixed an issue with adding comments and photos to a task report at the same time.

September 2024

🎨 Improvements and Updates

• Added a “Percent Complete” report when viewing the completion rate for a team against a particular Training Course.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the “Manage Certificates” button wasn't showing up in mobile-view.

August 2024

🎨 Improvements and Updates

• Added a reminder push notification to the Obbi Mobile App to remind staff members who haven't logged in for two weeks or more.
• Added the ability for Managers to set up staff member's PIN when accessing Obbi via Kiosk mode for the first time.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with embedded videos not playing in certain situations when viewing a Training Module.

July 2024

🎨 Improvements and Updates

• Added a new “Multi-Site” admin dashboard, for Multi-Course Operators who own and manage distributed sites.
• The task editor has been given an overhaul, making it easier than ever for managers to set up and distribute checklists to their teams.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where duplicating tasks didn't copy the schedule correctly.
• Fixed an issue where staff members were being given the option to start a guided task that was only for managers.

June 2024

May 2024

April 2024

March 2024

• Fixed an issue that stopped the 'Clear' button on date time picker from working.
• Fixed various minor issues with questions with a range validation (i.e. value must be between X and Y).
• Actions team filter no longer shows a duplicate team name when user is a both a Team Manager and a member of same team.

February 2024

January 2024

December 2023

November 2023

• Previously, once a user reported an incident, they wouldn't see it again. Now, on the 'My Incidents' page, they will see all incidents they have created until they are assigned to another team (i.e. an Incident Management / HR team etc). As well as seeing their own incidents, Managers will be able to see all incidents assigned to the teams they manage.

🚀 Feature Update: Users and Passwords

• Users without verified email addresses will be shown an alert on their home page which prompts them to confirm their email address (or enter it for the first time) and sends them a verification email. Clicking the link in the email verifies the email address and removes the alert.
• Admins can now use "Reset Now" on user accounts, which will change the password to a secure suggested password (random characters), clear the locked account status, clear the password expired status, close all open sessions belonging to that user, and display the new password.

• The password banner not going away has now been fixed and will only show again if password is going to expire within 14 days.
• Mandatory line items within tasks will now error if the user completes the task without selecting a value from the drop-down.

October 2023

• New “Certificates” page added for Team managers which shows Certificates assigned to users in any of their managed teams.
• Staff members can now see all Certificates assigned to them.
• The Expired Documents report will now also include expired Certificates.
• Managers can now create a new Corrective Action directly from the Actions home page.

• Users can now upload attachments (e.g. photos, manuals etc.) to Corrective Actions.
• Corrective Actions will now warn once they are within 7 days of going overdue.
• Team Managers are now notified when a Corrective Action changes state (e.g. from In Progress to Blocked), and they can move it between any teams they manage.
• Team Managers can now unlock user accounts from their Team Member Report page

September 2023

• Managers will be alerted if a new Corrective Action is raised or assigned to a team they manage.
• Team members can now change an Action assignment to any team member. Previously only Managers could do this.
• Corrective Actions can now be categorised as "Critical" importance.
• Corrective Actions now automatically log any changes or updates to the "Notes" history.
• Corrective Actions are now displayed within Task Reports, for easier cross-referencing of records during an audit.

• New permission-level added which controls which users can delete Task Reports.

August 2023

• Added support for Microsoft Word (.docx) files for Training Course and Document content.

July 2023

• Admins can now set up custom logos and for Training Courses, helping to create a better user experience for their staff.

June 2023

• Both Documents and Actions will now only show entries that are assigned directory to the current user, or to one of the user's teams.
• Managers are now able to see Documents and Actions in child teams as well as the team to which the document or action is directly assigned.
• Managers with Site Admin permissions can now create new users.
• Removed the modal dialog when editing an Incident report.

May 2023

• A new version of a Document be now be uploaded directly from the Document Details page
• Documents are now only visible to members and managers of the team to which they are assigned. This gives teams more control over the visibility of sensitive data.

• An improvement has been made to how Tasks are scheduled to support scenarios where the same check is performed multiple times per day (e.g. at 9am and 5pm).
• Improved the display of date time fields on iOS devices when completing Tasks.

April 2023

🚀 Feature Update: Tasks

• Questions are now more clearly laid out.
• Comments and Photos are easier to understand.
• Progress through the task is now displayed as you move through the questions.
• The pop-up when starting a task has been removed , allowing users to get straight to work.
• The final screen when submitting a Task report has been improved for clarity.
• The date of the last report submitted is now displayed on the Task list.

• Performance has been significantly improved on the Task Reports page, especially for users browsing large volumes of task reports.

March 2023

• Signatures and photo annotations are now saved automatically.
• QR Code layouts have been tweaked to better fit on printed labels.

February 2023

• Assigning an action to a team will now send an email notification to the team managers
• Assigning an action to a user will now send an email notification to that user
• The courses in Training will now show the number of Expiring Soon modules in a course

January 2023

• The Messages system has been given an overhaul, and now offers:
  • Tracking of acknowledgements
  • Tracking of read / unread status per recipient
  • The ability to mark the Message as "Critical" priority
  • If a user has an unread critical message, they will now get an alert banner on their home page

• The Actions page has been updated to include a "personal" actions filter
• The Documents page has been updated to include a "personal" documents filter
• Admins can now see whether a user's password has expired and if so, for how long
• When a user is sent a Red Alert with a mandatory module, the user can now start the module from the alert directly