Through wearable accelerometers in sports and the workplace, it’s possible to assess injury risks over long periods.
Historically, a safety manager would have to individually assess movements, measure range of motion and identify injury risks.
Wearable technology helps prevent sports injuries by tracking and identifying when an athlete is at risk of overload during a training period. Likewise, it measures the load on groups of workers to establish benchmarks relevant to their tasks.
Research has indicated that there is limited reliability for observation and opinion-based, task safety assessments between safety pros.
“Humans are subjective by nature, and how we observe or record movement risk in an individual will vary,” said Scott Coleman, vice president of injury prevention at Bardavon. elps us to overcome this.”
“For instance, safety manager Susie and safety manager Mike could assess the same new hire’s risk level and record very different results. Technology h