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Thirty-one workers were killed in a collision
with a vehicle in 2016/17, according to the HSE.

operatives, the need to provide
effective monitoring equipment which
can alert to hazards and dangerous
changes in environments in real time,
becomes ever more important.
This is aimed, rightly, at improving
health and safety in these industrial
environments, but also comes with
the added benefit of improving
productivity and reducing project
costs, meaning investment in better
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when it came to worker injury. safety risks caused by fatigue in
For instance, a worker may have these work environments.
been required to operate a piece of
machinery for several hours without a CONCLUSION
break, but without being able to As the long-term
monitor the overall environment for health risks of
health risks, or judge how a worker’s working in hazardous
body and vital signs were reacting to environments
the work, there would be no way of become clearer,
knowing if they were in danger until it coupled with a
was too late. new focus on
Real-time monitoring equipment is health and
changing this by providing early safety for
warnings to the operative themselves,
meaning management can closely
monitor environments and health risks
and take action much quicker.

FATIGUE
Like the risks from
repetitive strain and stress,
fatigue can be a real problem
and threat to the safety of workers in
industrial sectors; particularly those
working in the gas industry, with
operatives often working long hours
under strenuous conditions.
Individual monitoring of
operatives and the use of
technology to measure
working hours as well
as health factors like
body temperature or
heart rate are essential to
mitigate the potential health and

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