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Product concept · Tplus Industrial

EPP-as-a-Service

Tplus's vision of moving away from selling loose protective equipment toward running the safety of a work site as a continuous service. Tplus is a real, operating company. This service platform is the direction the business is heading. What you see here are mockups built to explain the concept, using data from a fictional site.

In development · product concept
Vision

From the purchase order to a continuous service

Today a company buys helmets, gloves and respirators when it runs out, and reacts too late. The EPP-as-a-Service platform flips that order. Tplus looks at the whole site, knows how many people need protecting, which certified equipment matches each risk, who received what and when it is time to replenish. The site stops managing a storeroom and gets its safety covered instead. Everything that follows are screens drawn to show how it would look, with no real clients or data.

Screen 01

Per-site dashboard

One view per site that answers three questions right away. How many people are protected today, how complete the PPE coverage is, and what needs replenishing before it becomes a problem. The supervisor logs in and knows where things stand in ten seconds.

tplus.app/site/andes-example
Los Andes Site (example)Industrial assembly project · 7x7 shift
Coverage up to date
Workforce protected
142 / 148
Workers with valid PPE
PPE coverage
91%
Items assigned against what is required
Replenishment alerts
3
Items below the defined threshold
Half-mask respirators size M below critical stock8 units left for 31 workers on the welding front
Critical
Cut-resistant gloves level D running outCoverage lasts about 4 days at the current pace
Watch
6 new workers with no kit assignedThey joined this week and still need their initial delivery
Watch

Example figures and site to illustrate the dashboard. They do not correspond to any real operation.

Screen 02

Assigned catalog

The catalog is not a loose list of products. It is the certified PPE that matches each risk present on the site, with the backing standard in plain view. Head, hands, respiratory and feet as generic examples. Each card shows the EN, ANSI or ISO standards that apply, so the choice stays traced against the standard.

tplus.app/site/andes-example/catalog
Head protection

Safety helmet

Against impact and falling objects at working height
EN 397ANSI Z89.1
Hand protection

Cut-resistant glove

Handling metal parts with sharp edges
EN 388ANSI/ISEA 105
Respiratory protection

Half-mask respirator

Particulate matter and welding fumes
EN 149NIOSH N95
Foot protection

Safety footwear

Reinforced toe cap and puncture-resistant sole
EN ISO 20345ASTM F2413

PPE types and standards shown as a generic example. The real assignment is defined by the risk analysis of each site.

Screen 03

Delivery traceability

What was delivered, to whom and when, with the item's standard and the acknowledgment of receipt. When an audit shows up or an incident happens, the answer is in a table and not in a folder of papers. Every delivery is logged and tied to the worker.

tplus.app/site/andes-example/traceability
DateItemStandardWorkerQty.Receipt
2026-08-12Safety helmetEN 397Operator 0141Signed
2026-08-12Cut-resistant glove level DEN 388Operator 0142Signed
2026-08-13Half-mask respiratorEN 149Welder 0071Signed
2026-08-14Safety footwearEN ISO 20345Operator 0221To be signed
2026-08-14Replacement P3 filterEN 143Welder 0074Signed
2026-08-15Complete onboarding kitVariousOnboarding 1491Pending

Example records with anonymized workers. No real person is named.

Screen 04

Automatic replenishment

Each item has a stock level and a threshold. When consumption approaches the floor, the system already knows it needs replenishing and projects the next delivery before the site runs out of equipment. The storeroom stops being the client's problem and becomes part of the service.

tplus.app/site/andes-example/replenishment
Half-mask respirator size MWelding front
Stock
Next
8 / 55
Arrives in 2 days
Cut-resistant glove level DAssembly and structure
Stock
Next
48 / 145
Arrives in 4 days
Safety helmetGeneral workforce
Stock
Next
116 / 148
No replenishment yet
Safety footwearGeneral workforce
Stock
Next
92 / 148
Scheduled

Replenishment scheduled. With last shift's consumption, the respirators reach the floor before the weekend. A delivery of 47 units has already been prepared to keep the welding front covered.

Stock levels, thresholds and dates are examples to show how replenishment is anticipated.

The shift

From supplier to safety partner

Selling PPE by purchase order leaves Tplus outside what truly matters to the client. That their people are protected every day, not just the day the box arrived. The product being designed moves that boundary forward.

The idea is simple to say and hard to run. Tplus stops dispatching products and starts answering for the coverage of a site. The catalog, the traceability and the replenishment stop being the client's tasks and become the service. That is the difference between a supplier and a partner.

Today

Tplus sells equipment when the client asks for it. The client manages its own storeroom, controls stock and reacts when something is missing.

Real company, platform in development

Let's talk through a demo

Tplus Industrial already operates and sells PPE across Chile. This service platform is the next step. If you want to see the concept in detail or think through how it would apply to a site, write to me and we'll set it up.

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