Technological developments over the last several years are positively influencing safety efforts. We’re going to explore a few of the key transformative factors shaping safety in the industry today.
Along with enhanced training and increased safety procedures, well-designed safety equipment can play a large role in companies’ efforts to protect employees from unnecessary risks.
BIM generates digital representations of the functional and physical characteristics of buildings and construction sites. For thousands of years, architects have used models to share their vision. Today, digital technology is making these models far more powerful.
It doesn’t have to be this tragic — both indoors and outdoors when temperatures reach dangerous, extreme levels. Preventive measures are found all over the internet. But heat prevention practices, in reality, are not always easily practiced, if attempted at all.
With climate change in mind, it is imperative that industries evaluate current heat safety practices and explore the potential of core body temperature-sensing wearables that accurately predict heat strain, improve worker productivity, and mitigate adverse heat-related health outcomes.
The Department of Labor will ramp up enforcement of heat-safety violations, increasing inspections in high-risk industries like construction and agriculture, while OSHA continues to develop a national standard for workplace heat-safety rules.
The current standard does not state clearly that PPE must fit each affected employee properly, which OSHA's general industry and maritime standards do.
Heat can be dangerous — even fatal. Thankfully, new technologies provide new ways to address this threat. Here are five technology use cases for improving worker safety amid extreme temperatures.
New tech tools are making building projects easier to plan and implement, and it's making complex jobs much more manageable. However, when there’s tech, there’s a potential for cybercrime.
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