Promoting industrial worker safety
As the industries march on their digital transformation journey, worker safety cannot be overlooked. In this section, we will look at how digital technologies can be leveraged to improve the culture of safety and at how, in some cases, safe operations can be a competitive advantage. There have been US government Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces guidelines that required companies to focus on worker safety, especially in large construction sites (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/08/05/2014-18561/fair-pay-and-safe-workplaces).
Some of these laws and executive orders change over time, but the importance of industrial worker safety is paramount. No transformation can be successful if it risks life and property. As a result, a few areas have emerged for the use of digital technologies to promote industrial worker safety. Some of the hazards at workplaces are listed as follows:
- Factory operations where workers have risk of exposure...
