The connected safety ecosystem - integration is key

The Reactec safety ecosystem is a suite of cloud-powered workplace wearable technology that helps break down data and operational siloes, making it easier for teams to take control of their workplace risk environment.

The ecosystem includes Reactec’s powerful Analytics platform, the R-Link watch, and integrated partner technologies for occupational dust and noise monitoring. The R-Link watch monitors workers’ risk from exposure to hand-arm vibration and proximity to hazards, and also offers two-way worker messaging. Together, these technologies form a complete toolkit: one which organisations can use to identify issues, refine controls, and improve ways of working.

Below, we’ll review the platforms and technologies that make up this ecosystem, and explain how they work together to help organisations build more proactive, more informed, and more effective risk management strategies.

Reactec Analytics:

The heart of the Reactec ecosystem is a powerful Analytics platform. Here, data is transformed into intelligence that organisations can use to reveal patterns, uncover trends, and identify hotspots. With this insight, teams can drive better decision making and improve health and safety outcomes for workers.

The Reactec Analytics platform:

As workers go about their tasks, data about their individual exposure to risk is transmitted in real-time to a cloud-powered database. In this ultra-secure environment, data is transformed into insights and displayed in attractive dashboards that duty holders can use to identify areas of concern and improve controls.

Crucially, the reports generated by Reactec Analytics are available and up-to-date 24/7 from anywhere in the world, with just an internet connection and a computer. Plus, teams are able to fully control which employees have access to the reports, when reports are distributed, and what data is displayed.

The Reactec Analytics API Integration:

The Reactec Analytics API Integration allows teams to integrate data from Reactec Analytics with their internal Management Information Systems. Through the API integration, data sharing that has traditionally been manual is instantly transformed into an automatic process that enables easier, faster communication between key business units, projects, and systems. So, instead of looking at insular or individual locations, projects, or offices, teams can look holistically at a wide range of data and analysis that provides a much broader, more complete picture of their total health and safety landscape.

The R-Link watch:

The R-Link smartwatch is Reactec’s third-generation workplace wearable technology with real-time monitoring that detects exposure to unsafe levels of vibration and proximity to moving vehicles, active machinery, or a restricted area.

R-Link for monitoring hand-arm vibration exposure:

While worn, R-Link alerts workers when they approach or exceed predetermined vibration exposure thresholds. This personalised, real-time data is stored, processed, and analysed in the Reactec Analytics platform. Employers can then use this data to understand whether and to what extent their administrative and engineering control measures are actually working.

Real-world example: an analytics report might reveal that certain team members are being exposed to more risk from exposure to vibration than others, or it might show that workers experience higher exposure levels when using certain tools or equipment (which are identified by RFID tool tags). With this information, worker behaviours can be adjusted, and issues of tool condition can be addressed. Once administrative or engineering controls are implemented, the data quickly reveals whether they’ve been effective, and how they could be improved.

R-Link for proximity detection:

R-Link uses the most advanced ultra-wideband proximity detection technology to alert workers about unsafe proximity to exclusion zones and hazards. Individual workers are given custom credentials which allow them to get closer to specific areas and hazards based on whether they are a Driver/Machine Operator or Pedestrian. Crucially, worker permissions can be updated at any time: It’s easy to control or update who has access to which areas or equipment on a day-to-day basis.

Worker messaging with R-Link:

Worker messaging functionality enables supervisors to schedule or send live health and safety messages to individuals or teams dispersed across job sites. Messages can be quickly created and scheduled in Reactec Analytics for delivery to certain workers, at certain times, on certain worksites, depending on what information needs to be conveyed. Importantly, messages and alerts can also be saved for future use. This highly customisable functionality enables managers and others to confirm when workers have received a message. Data about scheduled and sent messages, including acknowledgment of receipt by workers, is stored in Reactec Analytics.

Integrated partner technologies:

Together with our industry-leading partners, Reactec offers the most comprehensive safety ecosystem on the market. Our integrated partner technologies seamlessly combine our powerful Analytics platform with innovative solutions for dust and noise monitoring.

Reactec + Trolex for personalised dust monitoring:

The Trolex XD1+ is designed to be the lightest weight, most practical personal dust monitoring technology on the market. By pairing their XD1+ with the R-Link smartwatch, workers can view their own dust exposure levels right on their watch face. This enables incredibly fast decision-making, making it possible for workers to respond more immediately to real-time exposure data. Plus, individual workers’ exposure data is stored and analysed in Reactec’s ultra-secure, powerful Analytics platform.

Reactec + Smart Alert for occupational noise monitoring:

Smart Alert is a lightweight earplug with in-ear noise monitoring. It’s a revolutionary way to offer workers total protection that doesn’t slow them down with bulky or confusing tech. This partnership means that data from Smart Alert is fully integrated with Reactec’s powerful analytics platform: Data regarding workers’ exposure to potentially harmful levels of occupational noise is collected and automatically transformed into actionable insights that duty holders can use to more effectively manage employees’ exposure.

Creating a safer workplace starts by breaking down data and operational siloes. When teams adopt a comprehensive solution to occupational risk management, they see better results, faster.

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