Comprehensive Report: Internet of Things and Workplace Safety Measures

This report delves into the critical role of the Internet of Things (IoT) in enhancing workplace safety and preventing incidents. It explores how IoT-enabled gadgets and technologies, such as connected worker solutions, wearables, and environmental sensors, are transforming workplace safety measures. The report highlights the benefits of IoT in identifying hazards, monitoring employee health, and ensuring better safety compliance. It discusses the application of advanced analytics, including diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, to analyze data and forecast risks. Furthermore, the report covers the use of IoT in fire prevention, providing examples of IoT-enabled gadgets like the Tata communication's Employee health and safety watch and wearable communication systems. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of prioritizing employee safety to achieve both local and global success, highlighting IoT's vital contribution to a safer and more efficient work environment. The report also provides a comprehensive list of references to support its findings.

The role of Internet of Things on
preventing workplace incidents

Agenda
Introduction
IoT for connected workers
 Connected worker
 Advanced analytics
 Fire prevention using IoT
 Examples of IoT gadgets
Conclusion
References

Introduction
• Companies have the legal responsibility for
providing safety of the employees.
• As per the Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety
Index, the business persons of the United States
expense nearly dollar sixty billion in every year
(ANGEL and SHREE 2020).
• IoT enabled gadgets have the capability to
provide safety to the employees in the
workplace.
• It can be done by identifying a huge number of
hazards before the issue arises.

IoT for workplace safety
 IoT enabled gadgets are the best
solution for providing safety in
workplace.
 Many companies launch several gadgets
in the market (Asadzadeh et al. 2020).
 With the help of these gadgets,
companies can provide safety to their
staffs.
 This strengthen the health of the
employees.
 It also gives a better safety compliance.

Connected workers
 If a company uses IoT based
technologies for monitoring purpose
then it can enhance the security of the
staffs (Atlam and Wills 2020).
 It helps the organisation to give more
attention to the possible hazards.
 IoT technologies are used within the
cloths, hats, shoes and safety glasses.
 It has the ability to generate some
safety information for their staffs.

Contd.
With the help of those data
company can take some
precautions regarding the
workplace accidents (Bhardwaj,
Sharma and Shukla 2020).
It leads to provide safety of the
staffs.

Wearables
There are many high risk industries that are using
some IoT based gadgets which is responsible for
workforce safety.
Staffs can check the biometric details and take
outstanding decisions in crucial situations (Chung
and Kim 2020).
Management of the company can track the
biometric details of the staffs and receives an alert
message when the employee is in critical condition.
By these IoT based gadgets, many organisations
are giving safety to their staffs efficiently.

Contd.
 Huge amount of connected wearables are available
in the market.
 The special feature of these gadgets is that
supervisors can monitor the movements of those
staffs.
 These gadgets contain a huge amount of high
definition camera as well as sensors (Gaissmaier et
al. 2020).
 These are able to keep track of some neglected
procedures and some non-compliance safety
standards for the employees.
 IoT gadgets forward the real life information to their
supervisors.

Contd
 IoT gadgets forward some real life
information to their supervisors
(Gnoni et al. 2020).
 It also provides them a chance to
correct those operations which are
totally wrong.
 It helps to reduce the workplace
accidents.

Environmental sensors
 Sensors of the IoT enabled gadgets become
very cheap.
 These sensors help a company to transform
day to day objects into IoT enabled gadgets.
 These are very cost effective (Hassan et al.
2020).
 With the help this, a company can modify
their workplace safety policies.
 These gadgets are capable for monitoring
position, velocity, motion and sensors.

Contd.
 It gives many updates to the supervisors
related the situation in workplace.
 It also gives safety of the staffs in more than
one working sites (Kambourakis et al. 2020).
 Mining companies are using several IoT
related gadgets for measuring the quality of
air and inspect the health statues of minors.
 Sensors of those gadgets are capable for
forwarding the information to the
supervisors by using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and
Zigbee.

 SmartCap technologies develop a monitoring
system.
 It is basically designed for the truck drivers as
well as the drivers of other heavy vehicles
(ANGEL and SHREE 2020).
 It has the ability to measure the brain waves.
 It has the capability to identify worst micro
sleeps which may affect the safety of the driver.
 It helps to reduce the risks which may occur due
fall asleep at the time of driving and decreases
the chance of major accidents.
Contd.

Advanced analytics
Lack of communication is very ineffective to prevent
the accidents.
It can give safety operations within the workplace.
Advanced analytics and IoT work jointly for generating
a centralised database (Asadzadeh et al. 2020).
These systems help the company to monitor workplace
accidents and damages.
With the help of data analysis, company can detect the
cause for accidents.
With the help of these gadgets, organisations can
gather Tera bytes of data.

CONTD.
 Best examples of data analytics are Diagnostic analytics,
Predictive analytics, Descriptive analytics and Prescriptive
analytics using AI and big data.
 Risk forecasting is a crucial part for this. It helps the
supervisors to observe employee safety within the
workplace.
 Staff data can be tracked in real life scenario. With the
help of machine learning, failure can be detected.
 Live data analysis can able to detect any issues very
quickly (Atlam and Wills 2020).
 Application of correct visualization on the employee
information can be able to detect the severe health issue.
 Behavioural data can be applied for collection and
analysis.
 These are responsible for resolving the future issues.

Fire prevention using IoT
With the help of Internet of Things, a
company can perform the below
mentioned activities for tracking fire
inside workplace (Chung and Kim 2020).
1. Tracking of critical conditions for fire
fighters.
2. Improvement of the fire tracking system.
3. Giving protection to the fire using some
smart technologies.

Examples of IoT enabled gadgets used in
workplace safety
Tata communication designs Employee health and
safety watch which is an IoT enabled gadget.
It can monitor the crucial states of the human body as
well as the workplace (Gaissmaier et al. 2020).
In this gadget, beacons are responsible to transfer
data from the gadget through the LPWAN networks for
the purpose of creating actionable insights.
Analytics engine, web applications and dashboards are
entirely customized.
This gadget helps the supervisors to enjoy a complete
real time visibility of workplace locations, health and
safety of the staffs of the company.

Wearable communication systems
In 2018, Digital Magazine highlighted that, a
manufacturing company named Heads up
generated a compact IoT gadgets for identifying
heat, noise and humidity conditions of the
workplace.
It can be easily placed within any eye piece
(Gnoni et al. 2020).
It will flash many coloured lights for providing
alerts related to harmful modifications in
surrounding environments.
It can connected with several enterprise systems
as well as back end analysis.
It helps to take actions regarding future safety.

Conclusion
• For getting success at local as well as global level, a
company must ensure that they provide proper safety
measures to their employees.
• Health and safety of the employees will no longer be
accepted as nice to have.
• These can be strengthen the health as well as better
safety compliance.
• It reduces the expenditure as well as talent
management.
• If a business understands this at the early stage, then
they can get a head start in this competitive world.

 At the end, it can be said that, IoT plays a
vital role in the workplace safety.
Contd.

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