Wearable device tracks, predicts hazardous situations

MākuSafe This wearable device from MākuSafe gathers real-time data about workers’ movements, workplace exposures and potential hazards for employers to review. It monitors noise levels, heat indices, air quality and other environmental conditions. When workers experience a safety incident or observe a potential hazard, they can push a button on the wearable and immediately record a report that can be reviewed by a shift supervisor. Events such as slips are noted and overlaid onto a facility or site map, making it easy to visually identify trends and patterns.

What’s new? Motion Explorer. This new feature filters data and creates graphical and interactive insights into hazardous repetitive and high-force worker motions. Motion Explorer presents data in a way that makes it easy for users to compare overall physicality of individual workers to others in the same role, rank those who expend the most effort and use the information to help prevent musculoskeletal disorders and repetitive-motion injuries.

Benefits Worker safety. The company said some workers’ compensation insurers have reported a 50 percent drop in quantity and frequency of claims, and up to a 90 percent reduction in the severity of occurrences among policyholders after only six months of using MākuSafe. The company noted one operation where workers were moving expanded PS. No danger was obvious, but once data showed a problem, the company made process changes to prevent hazardous motions and head off potential injuries. MākuSafe’s data can also be used to conduct contact tracing for COVID-19 or other illnesses.

MākuSafe, West Des Moines, Iowa, 515-850-0995, www.makusafe.com