Creating a safe working environment for employees goes beyond training these days, relying on technology to fill in the gaps where human instinct might fail. Technology has already made an impact on worker safety and is likely a factor in reducing workplace injuries and illnesses from 10.9 incidents per 100 workers in 1972 to 3.0 per 100 in 2015, and deaths from about 38 worker deaths a day in 1970 to 13 a day in 2015, according to OSHA.
But as far as businesses have come in the last 40 years in regards to safety, more can still be done.