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Real-time employee safety tracking & monitoring

Real-time tracking & monitoring for a smart safety environment

March 27, 2018

Readers may be familiar with connected products (gas detectors servicing alerts) that have been around for many years. This article identifies common connected technology terms, concepts and uses that will be new to a workplace safety environment.

Your personal guide to safety tech disruption

Technology penetrates professional comfort zones

Dave Johnson

September 1, 2017

Among the early EHS technology adopters: Bechtel, Turner, Clark Construction, Allergen, Siemens. There are others, mostly Fortune 500 companies. What EHS technologies are they using?

Wearable Mobile Solutions to Improve EHS & Performance Management

Emily Ysaguirre

July 6, 2017

In 2016, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) empowered miners with a new wearable device according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NIOSH researchers have documented that a continual personal dust monitor has created a 90% decrease in dangerous levels of dust for miners reducing pneumoconiosis (black lung).

Cell phones are not cure-alls

Man-down technology offers automatic SOS signals

Chris Holbert

June 1, 2017

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.

Bluetooth beacons come of age

Wireless data is collected to know where and when exposures occurred

Gregg Bako

May 1, 2017

As gas detection monitor manufacturers build new instruments, we are seeing many forms of wireless technology being added directly into the monitors.

M&A prognosis for safety in 2017

Cautious optimism; mid-market deals are still strong

Deborah Douglas

April 1, 2017

Published predictions today talk more often about “steady activity” and “cautious optimism” – significantly less bullish than the predictions we would have heard a few years ago.

Online tools help workers avoid heat-related illness

Lisa Neuberger

April 1, 2017

Heat-related illnesses such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion can be deadly or debilitating. Other illnesses such as heat cramps and heat rash are painful conditions that can increase a worker’s risk of injury.

Five tips for reimagining safety traditions

Making use of data science

Gary Edwards PhD

January 1, 2017

Data analytics is helping guide decision-making in virtually every industry.

Safety Today ups its sales game

iPads + salespeople = better customer service

January 8, 2016

As a provider of comprehensive safety solutions to companies worldwide, the company has been researching the best ways to utilize technology to improve customer service, and they found the answer at their fingertips — specifically, the tapping of fingertips on iPads.

Technology is reshaping industries, job markets in Middle America

October 21, 2015

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation says North Dakota is the state most likely to thrive in the rapidly evolving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) focused economy.