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Making sense of the regulatory landscape with regards to hand arm vibration (HAV) can be confusing. And knowing whether you’ve done enough to manage your workers’ exposure to HAV isn’t always clear.
This is because the regulations governing this area of compliance are nuanced and technical, which can create confusion about what’s required for an organisation to become (or to stay) compliant. Ultimately, duty holders are obligated to carry out a risk assessment that is representative of a worker’s exposure. Of course, continually measuring a worker’s exposure would also be compliant, but the HSE have acknowledged plainly that such an undertaking would be wasteful and impractical under most circumstances.
The effort by a duty holder to make a reasonable estimate of exposure is a crucial element of compliance. Making a reasonable estimate is possible via exact measurement (which is not required or advised) or through technology designed to monitor a worker’s exposure to HAV over time.
Here, Reactec explains how its R-Link smart watch and connected worker technology can help you make sense of HAVS-related compliance.
Analytics, an organisation can readily design and monitor the effectiveness of their HAVS controls.
MOVING FORWARD: HOW CONNECTED WORKER TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING THE
WAY WE THINK ABOUT COMPLIANCE Becoming or staying compliant isn’t the be-all and end- all when it comes to designing wearable technology for construction and heavy industrial environments. There’s a wider issue at play that drives forward-thinking organisations (like Reactec and its customers) to innovate or adopt solutions that are built to help ensure compliance and also offer organisations the ability to gain better insight into their total risk environment. Specifically, these are solutions that create opportunities for businesses to respond to threats posed by exposure to risk – including those posed by HAV, and other hazards that can be better managed by being measured.
And that’s where R-Link comes in.A new generation of workplace
R-Link is the successor to Reactec’s industry-leading HAVWEAR, which is trusted by over 100,000 workers in the UK alone. R-Link is Reactec’s next-generation workplace wearable designed to help organisations monitor their workers’ exposure to HAV more closely and reliably than ever before. By empowering workers and duty holders with real-time, real-use data about exposure to HAV, R-Link enables organisations and teams to take more effective control of their workplace health and compliance risks.
R-Link monitors a worker’s daily exposure to HAV, and can be used as part of an employer’s compliance efforts. Such a device is beneficial because it can easily and efficiently provide the suitable and sufficient information that a company needs in order to carry out an HSE compliant risk assessment. Plus, with with Reactec’s
wearable technology Monitor exposure to hand-arm vibration more closely than ever before
This connected worker approach is a key element of Reactec’s mission: to transform employers from being mitigators of workplace health risk, to being capable of preventing it. With a complete ecosystem of technology – including workplace wearables and devices designed for vehicles and exclusion zones – Reactec offers organisations the unprecedented opportunity to look closely at their risk environment, from HAV to dangerous proximity and beyond, and do more than ask themselves: ‘am I being compliant?’
With access to a world of technology that’s not only easy to use, but affordable and quick to implement, employers can begin to reframe their efforts, and evolve their approach from simply avoiding any penalties or problems associated with non-compliance, to something that more closely resembles an approach to workplace health and safety that focuses on people, predictability, and sustainability.
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