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Scanning instead of shipping

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MSHA field offices on a daily basis mail reports into district offices and could save considerable shipping money and trees by purchasing adequate scanners to scan reports in. Then reports could be emailed or put onto a shared drive. Many of the reports are several hundred pages long and the pages come from multiple sources so a PDF file would not work easily for this.

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Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  1. Community Member

    I agree! However, our office has been provided a very basic model scanner, which is only hooked to one computer. A decent networked scanner would make this feasible for a whole office! There are very nice copiers with scanners included, that should be considered as copiers have to be replaced.

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  2. Community Member

    it's hard to imagine a report that itself is not electronic. Could it not be saved as a PDF document and simply emailed? That would be a process change - no equipment expense.

    2 years ago
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  3. Community Member

    We have a Ricoh machine that is a copier/scanner/fax/document-server, etc. I scan our 3 times daily logs (which are filled out by hand three times a day) once a month directly into a pdf document that the machine saves on our network share. The resulting PDF is over 100 pages. The paper copies then go into the recycle bin.

    2 years ago
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