The safety of employees has become essential for many companies during daily work and therefore they have developed many concepts and safety mechanisms to avoid injury and increase security across their workforce. The priority for companies who operate in hazardous areas are, above all, to avoid injury, reduce occupational disease and attempt to eliminate unsafe working conditions.
For this reason, most companies operating in this space employ HSE Engineers (HSE = Health, Safety and Environment), who ensure the protection of the employees, the public and the environment. They develop specific processes and guidelines that help to avoid these incidents.
To aid in this, workers are equipped with the appropriate safety gear, such as gloves and helmets, and the right tools for their daily work and tasks.
If they are working alone in isolated areas it becomes standard to protect them through lone worker protection systems. In an emergency, the worker can trigger emergency calls and the control room can take appropriate action immediately helped by the GPS coordinates which are sent from the device. Further to this, the lone worker systems can be triggered in the instance of a worker collapsing of the device taking a sudden fall - thereby helping to protect anyone working alone in a dangerous areas.
To equip Mobile Workers in the field with portable devices has many advantages besides the obvious advantage of having a means of communication with workers in the field - it also enables them to exchange information and data at any time while moving around a plant or work site. This means that, for example, warnings and tasks can be distributed straight to employees who are working remotely.
To find out more about the diverse and varied range of applications that can be used on these devices in hazardous areas, visit our App Library.