industry
Whether it’s energy, oil and gas, mining and tunneling, transportation and maintenance - there’s a heightened risk of accidents for non-desk workers. Thus, prevention is key: For every $1 a company invests in prevention, it saves $2.2 - also known as Return on Prevention.
challenges
Managing heavy jobs and operating in stressful and harsh environments, non-desk workers are most affected by workplace accidents. In Switzerland, employee downtime costs companies an average of $1’000/person/day. Without health monitoring, dangerous situations are only highlighted once an incident has occurred. This places as cost burden and productivity strain on industrial organizations.
heat exhaustion
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Non-desk workers suffer from getting too hot - due to outside temperatures, physiological strain, or their protective clothing.
fatigue
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Non-standard schedules such as shift work is needed - but makes it more difficult to perform mental and physical activities.
offline workforce
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Still lacking technology solutions that make their lives easier, non-desk workers often experience a disconnect from their team.
how we can help
Our solution combines health data that is critical to keep non-desk workers safe with a software platform tailored to the needs of occupational safety.
We are able to detect early signs of physical exhaustion and keep non-desk workers safe in real-time.
selected industrial clients
faq
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Heat exhaustion, sometimes also called over-exhaustion is a bodily condition that can occur after you've been exposed to an environment where your body can’t keep itself cool.
It can be caused by intense physical activity or other harsh environmental factors that are a burden for our bodies, such as e.g., hot weather, hot ovens, confined spaces, or full body protective equipment.
Once over-exhaustion occurs, adverse health events happen such as
Weakness or fatigue
Dizziness or fainting
Nausea or vomiting
Heavy muscle cramps
Heat stroke
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The epyMetrics solution is physically deployed in the form of epyShield™ wearables for each worker, no bigger than a credit card, as well as a multi-bay charging dock, no bigger than a small suitcase.
The charging dock is normally located in a control room or site hut so that workers can easily access the station to grab their epyShield™ before the shift starts or to let it charge after a shift.
All the necessary machine-learning computation is done on the epyShield™ as well as on the cloud backend. Data can be visualised through a dedicated epyGuard™ app as well as the web app frontend.
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Up to 50 hours of data can be stored on the epyShield™ wearable itself.
The data is transmitted via low-power bluetooth (BLE) to a phone or tablet that act as a gateway and for a live-view of the data.
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Health data is the most sensitive data there is and we honor that with an inherently safe epyGuard™ platform:
Only the person who generates the health data sees his/her data in detail. By invitation only, an occupational physician can access his/her data for health check-ups, too.
Supervisors and safety experts only see aggregated data (live in form of green/orange/red status indications, historically only team-level data).
Further, our clients are free to use non-personal identifiers for usernames instead of the workers' actual names.
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Absolutely. However, we currently focus solely on working with best-in-class sensors who have been especially developed to guard workers and their environment.
get in touch
Do you want to know more about our solution or partner with us? Please reach out any time.
Edith Gerster
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
edith@epymetrics.com
+41 44 244 05 91
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