DUST MONITORING + COLLABORATION AT ITS BEST
OVERVIEW
Customer / End User
Ideagen Wearable Safety
Application
Technology & Data
Industry
Workplace Health & Safety
Country
UK
Product(s) used
TX8060 XD ONE
Challenge
Ideagen Wearable Safety began with wearable hand and arm vibration monitoring to track exposure, then recognised their data management, hosting, and reporting as a broader health and safety tool. Instead of building new sensors, Ideagen Wearable Safety pursued partnerships with specialists like Trolex whose risk expertise could integrate with and enhance their platform into new avenues like dust monitoring.
Outcome
Trolex provides the real-time dust monitoring and Ideagen Wearable Safety turns the raw data into clear, meaningful insights. The platform links data to people, tasks, and locations, helping organisations understand patterns, improve processes, and focus safety efforts where they will have the greatest impact.
Company & Application
Ideagen Wearable Safety have been specialists in workplace health and safety environments for more than 15 years. Originally focusing on the damaging effects of exposure to vibration, they soon discovered that the most effective way of mitigating workplace risk lies in gathering as much data as possible.
“The traditional approach to health and safety says, ‘I can think about a problem, do a risk assessment and as a consequence of that assessment I can make it safe for people’.
We prefer to go one step further and engineer out problems. If we can measure what’s actually happening in the way of risk, then we can make workplaces a safer place to be.”
The Challenge
Starting with wearable hand/arm vibration monitoring technology to measure vibration exposure, Jacqui and her team quickly realised that the data management, hosting and reporting they provided their clients, was a powerful health and safety tool that could also be usefully applied to other workplace risks.
Rather than try to create new technology to measure a variety of risks, Ideagen Wearable Safety started to look for partners. Experts in their respective risk fields, whose work could be complemented by their data management technology.
The XD ONE plan
“We see Trolex as a leading expert in how to measure dust and what we’re doing is providing a platform that makes the dust data they collect easy to access and meaningful. We’re turning their data into meaning.”
“We take the data associated with a process so that your records don’t just look like a bunch of numbers, but they tell you about who was doing what and where. And as you build up more data, you can get more intelligence in terms of process and people and where you need to put in your biggest efforts to get safer environments.”
The XD ONE solution
With new dashboard integration and development rolled out to a live XD ONE Portable Dust Monitor client, the relationship between Ideagen Wearable Safety and Trolex began to move steadily in the right direction.
The XD ONE Portable Dust Monitor is simple to use and easy to integrate; a complementary technology that gives your workplace health and safety solutions a fast-track route into the world of actionable dust monitoring intelligence.
“And there’s an overlay angle,” says Jacqui. “With our tech we get information on vibration. We have other tech that gives us information on noise. And if you start overlaying all of that with dust data and situational location information, you can create a health risk passport for an individual or a site.
It’s the very start of an exciting journey that will provide more and more useful data as clients understand what they can do with the data over time.”
What it means moving forward
Ideagen Wearable Safety and Trolex; a marriage made in data and a powerful collaboration that looks set to flourish in the future. Plans are already afoot to take things to the next level with new Bluetooth, IoT data recording and cloud-based analytics.
