Is there a role for apps in the future of safety management?

This paper seeks to describe mobile apps, their benefits and problems when they come to be used in the safety domain. This research compares and contrasts the development processes for a typical safety domain tool, against the development processes used for apps. It seeks to answer the question whether future safety practitioners will all be using hand-held, mobile devices with safety Apps on? The paper concludes with a set of guidelines, developed from these opening statements for prospective App developers and App users, such that potential Apps of the future might actually be useful and demonstrably safe to use in the future of safety management.