Items Tagged with 'monitoring'

Lone workers are defined as employees who work without close contact or supervision from other colleagues.

Advanced gas detection and safety monitoring solutions emerge as indispensable tools in safeguarding lone workers.

While up-to-date gas detection systems can’t eliminate every safety challenge, they can make industrial sites significantly safer for workers.

Blackline Safety announced a four-year contract valued at $2.7 million with a major U.S. upstream energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas. 

The report evaluated findings from several academic databases, as well as two case studies, to specifically assess the use of worker monitoring technologies, ranging from fall detection devices and proximity sensors to mobile apps and panic alarms, in remote settings.

Safety wearables are quickly becoming the go-to fix for ergonomic injuries in the workplace, but their injury reduction capabilities extend further than that. 

Examinetics, the nation’s leading provider of workplace safety compliance services, announced a strategic investment in Kenzen, innovator of a wearable device to reduce workplace injuries by providing continuous temperature monitoring of workers.  Examinetics is a portfolio company of Freedom 3 Capital.

After more than 20 years in the development process, the Confined Spaces in Construction Standard has finally been released by OSHA. Companies now have less than 90 days to comply with the Standard’s effective date of August 3, as there is no phase-in period for the provisions.