What started as a way for Rob Sweeney to send texts and emails to his technology-challenged mother has grown into a way for companies to identify, report and track near misses and safety concerns to protect workers.Sweeney’s invention started a few years ago as a simple printer called messageQube that prints text and pictures so he could send messages to his 82-year-old mother.That printer is now backed by an app for smartphones and software to track and report near misses and safety concerns called WorkplaceAware (workplaceaware.com). “If you’re not encouraging employees to report near misses, you’re selling yourself short and
