As we enter Construction Safety Week 2020, the landscape looks significantly different than in years past. The construction industry has always been a higher risk industry – comprising over 20% of all private industry fatalities annually – but these unprecedented times have brought more challenges for safety teams to address. Hear what Dan Plefka, Senior…
How Will You Maintain Safe Working Distances and Limit the Risk of Exposure? We understand you are facing significant challenges when it comes to maintaining physical distancing at your workplace. We also understand the importance of quickly and confidently identifying the potential spread of exposure should a worker test positive for COVID-19 at one of…
Construction Insurer, CR Solutions detailed their reopening strategy on their blog. Maintaining social distance can be difficult in the workplace. Improving on recommended protocols, CR Solutions provides employees with social distancing and contact tracing technology using TraceTags™ clipped to their shirts. When employees move too close together, the TraceTag™ alerts them with a flashing red LED…
Have you ever wondered about the cost implications of shutting down a jobsite due to COVID-19? We asked some of our construction clients to share what the costs for having to shutdown a jobsite for one week would look like. See the total costs associated with a 1-week shutdown at a 100-worker, $336M build and…
Maya Rodriguez discusses our social distancing and contact tracing technology with our CEO Robert Costantini and LF Driscoll Project Director Tom Stefanko on a current Philadelphia project site. Within a series of unfinished walls, Tom Stefanko oversees hundreds of construction workers every day, all of them wearing what looks like an old-school pager. Yet, the…
Engineering News Record spoke with steel erector National Steel City uses wearable sensors to keep workers 6 ft apart. In order to maintain social distancing on site, steel erector National Steel City of Plymouth, Mich., is using the Proximity Trace wearable sensor from Triax Technologies on the $1.9-billion Kansas City International Airport (KCI) single-terminal reconstruction…
The complete Spot-r connected worksite solution combines a proprietary network, compact hardware and physical turnstiles to control who gets onto your worksite and provide unprecedented visibility into where workers spend time during the workday. Automated worker time and attendance, equipment and machine utilization, worker-generated safety alerts and real-time location data improves resource allocation, worker safety…
Our CEO, Robert Costantini speaks to the use of IoT in the workplace as a means to improve safety and mitigate risk in a recent article for Occupational Health & Safety. As workers slowly but certainly return to manufacturing plants, construction sites, oil refineries and office environments in a post-COVID-19 world, there will be new requirements,…
From “quarantini” to “coronacation,” the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced all kinds of new words and phrases into our vocabulary. Chief among them might be “social distancing.” Public health officials, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are urging all of us to maintain a social distance of at least six feet from those…
In an interview with Industrial Equipment News, our VP of Marketing, Lori Peters talks about the use of Proximity Trace on worksites and how workers are responding to the technology. “We developed Proximity Trace as a tool to help workers feel safe returning to work. The feedback we’ve received from workers, across a broad range…