HAND/ARM VIBRATION WORK SMARTER
When it comes to calculating the risks associated with exposure to vibration, it’s better to be approximately right than exactly wrong, says Reactec.
Training for a marathon involves more than lacing up a pair of shoes and jogging further with every effort. In order to safely increase mileage over the course of a training plan that lasts months, a runner must evaluate, understand, and respond to their unique biomechanical needs. If a runner trained for their next race without collecting any data about their performance along the way, their assessment of their own progress would be incomplete, and inaccurate. Alternatively, if a runner wears an exercise monitor, they can view their running stats in real time, and collect data over the course of their training that allows them to better understand – and refine – their training behaviours.
Reactec’s ecosystem of workplace wearables and cloud- based analytics, developed to help engineer risk out of the workplace, is predicated upon this same logic: useful, actionable information is information that is representative, and reliable. In 2003, we launched our first device designed to monitor an individual’s exposure to vibration, and five years ago HAVWEAR was developed to provide an even better real-use assessment of workers’ exposure to risk from vibration, with incredible results
HAVWEAR offers actionable information that can be used to refine controls and reduce risk. It informs workers of their exposure by calculating and displaying their risk assessment in real-time, while sound and vibration alerts are used to inform workers if their personalised exposure thresholds have been exceeded. The data collected by HAVWEAR is then easily collated and disseminated to duty holders to further support appropriate, informed risk reduction initiatives. Importantly, all of this insight is provided at a cost of one-third the amount of a traditional, paper- based system.
Ultimately, the information provided by HAVWEAR is superior not because it is perfect, but because it provides reliable, representative information about workers’ exposure to dangerous workplace conditions easily, and at a low cost.
Unlike prohibitively expensive assessments carried out by specifically trained technicians, HAVWEAR provides real-time, representative data to duty-holders in a way that’s accessible, and straightforward. The reality is that
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information that is expensive to obtain, or difficult to understand, isn’t very useful, largely because it’s difficult to obtain enough of it to draw any meaningful insight.
Historically, companies have turned to expensive assessments of their workers’ exposure to vibration in an effort to stay (or to become) compliant. But because these assessments are costly and time consuming, they aren’t conducted with the frequency required to provide an amount of data that could be considered representative, or reliable. The result is wasted time, money, and opportunity. HAVWEAR, on the other hand, provides the information that a company needs in order to meet its compliance obligations; namely to collect suitable and sufficient data, and it does so in a way that’s uncomplicated, and efficient.
And where expensive assessments are not undertaken, HAVWEAR clearly provides more approximately right information about workers’ exposure to vibration than do traditional methods for monitoring such exposure – such as time sheets or manufacturer declared values – which fall well short of providing reliable data. In fact, the information gained by utilising such wholly outdated methods is so woefully inadequate that it is, essentially: precisely wrong.
These same principles – that more approximately right data is more useful and more applicable than data which is exactly wrong – can be applied to Reactec’s approach to noise and dust monitoring, as well as our tools designed for safe proximity and exclusion zones.
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