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.