Safety managers can avoid information overload and gain meaningful insight by adopting a smarter approach to hearing loss prevention.
Health and safety professionals are responsible for an extensive range of tasks; performing inspections and assessments, providing safety training, compiling safety reports, investigating and reporting on safety incidents, devising corrective actions and updating processes and procedures. The list goes on.
Traditionally, many activities performed by health and safety managers would have been paper-based. As the workplace is becoming more digitised there is a growing number of electronic data sources, data that is automatically gathered from sensors (industrial internet of things). This data also needs to be analysed and acted upon. It is perhaps no wonder that health and safety managers – already at risk of drowning in data – suddenly feel like they are completely submerged.
Health and safety managers spend much of their time wading through vast tranches of information to find the bits that are useful or relevant. There is a need for a more intelligent approach to the automation of health and safety systems that provides quick access to more meaningful insight – helping safety managers to cut through the noise and pinpoint where they can best focus their efforts in order to reduce injury and save lives.
This paper presents an answer to workplace noise-induced hearing loss and how safety digitisation can be successfully deployed to support the health and safety team and not add to their increasing data burden.
