(Business Insurance, 10/24/18)
Technology is the next frontier of workplace safety, according to experts at the National Safety Council Congress and Expo.
Automation that hands off riskier jobs to machines, artificial intelligence that can help manage safety concerns such as protocols for preventing injuries, sensors that can tell a worker that he or she is in a dangerous area, wearables that measure fatigue, exoskeletons that help a person lift heavy objects, and big data that can find patterns to help craft better risk management strategies were among the latest technologies discussed at the council’s annual conference in Houston.
The list, as Dr. Lydia Boyd Campbell, IBM’s chief medical officer and leader of IBM’s Corporate Health and Safety Organization in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, rattled off in her introduction, is expansive and ever-changing.