Unmanned aerial or terrestrial vehicles, commonly known as drones, are aircraft or land craft controlled by a ground-based operator.
LONE WORKER MONITORING
Confined Space Entry
This technology is often a mobile app that protects lone workers through real-time location tracking and communication between emergency response teams or management directly to the worker. These applications typically involve fall detection capabilities. Lone worker monitoring was the second most commonly mentioned safety technology for mitigating hazardous situations in our research for the Safety Technology 2020 paper.
Construction and Installation
Emergency Response
Workers:
Employers:
50% reported being exposed to work at heights or confined space entry
19% said drones would help mitigate their personal risk of a serious workplace injury or fatality
15% using
12% tested or tried
19% considering
22% no knowledge
44% of users adopted them in the previous year
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Findings from the NSC 2020 Safety Technology in the Workplace Survey of 500 employers and 1,000 workers from safety-sensitive industries.
Why It’s Important:
Technology for gathering data using drones has undergone significant advances in recent years. Drones now often come equipped with 3D cameras, thermal imaging cameras, artificial intelligence, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and 4K cameras with advanced sensors. Additionally, a variety of sensors and transducers use electronic gravitational, thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic and chemical capabilities, among others, to sense measures including gas leaks and atmospheric pressures. Drones also can perform numerous surveying tasks, many of which are already being undertaken commercially (Watkins, et al., 2020).
Drones have the ability to minimize safety risks associated with hazardous work conditions, and, in certain cases, eliminate them completely (NAEM, 2019). Operators can fly drones into high-risk situations and hard-to-reach areas to perform reality capture and take accurate measurements that
otherwise would have required employees to expose themselves to risky environments (Karakhan & Alsaffar, 2019).
The drone market comprises 12 usage scenarios for commercial, industrial and civil government (CICG) over four categories: inspections, monitoring, surveying and mapping, and emergency response. Despite the advancements of drone technology, short battery life remains a concern in many applications.
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Aerial drones can be used to reduce or eliminate serious injuries and fatalities related to working at height, the most common non-roadway hazard leading to workplace fatalities. Drones are used more and more to conduct aerial inspections and other work to keep employees safely on the ground.
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Critical workplace tasks may include a variety of jobs involving performing work in permit-required confined spaces or conducting surveys at height. Confined spaces typically have restricted means of entry or exit and are not designed for continuous human occupancy due to a lack of ventilation or other situational factors.
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