By: TuMeke Ergonomics
Burden:
There are many obstacles when building a sustainable and successful safety program. If you’re like most safety professionals, you probably find yourself bogged down by manual processes that make incident and response reporting a tedious task. This often leads to limited reporting and upper management deprioritizing safety initiatives.
As a champion of safety, how can you reduce risks of injury and guarantee the safety of your colleagues when faced with this challenge?
The Solution:
Recent advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence have made it possible to automate many of these tedious manual processes by analyzing human motion through smartphone cameras.
Although they come in many shapes and sizes, most Computer Visions tools for Ergonomics allow you to automate multiple industry standard risk assessments in order to quickly identify and investigate safety hazards. What’s more, joint-recognition software allows these tools to automatically highlight how a job site will injure employees from a musculoskeletal point of view so that you can implement changes immediately.
The idea behind these Computer Visions tools is simple, to give you an extra pair of eyes so you can always know which facilities and departments are facing the biggest musculoskeletal safety issues. Their automatically generated reports and robust dashboards increase transparency and make proactive intervention incredibly easy.
How does it Work:
Most Computer Visions tools for ergonomics are a different category of tool compared to your standard EHS suite. They aren’t trying to be a one-stop-shop for all EHS departments and their needs. Instead, these tools are helping actively reduce musculoskeletal injuries with increased speed and efficiency.
Here’s just a taste of what they can do:
- Need to quickly perform an ergonomic assessment? No problem, just upload or take a video of the worksite and the Computer Visions tool will perform your assessment in minutes.
- Want to show employees the benefits of enacting your safety recommendations? Most Computer Visions tools for ergonomics provide a 3D joint-skeleton that shows which body parts are at risk of soft tissue injuries.
- Need to convince upper management on the merits of making your suggestions? Computer Visions tools for ergonomics can consolidate analytical findings into easily digestible reports for quick and easy distribution.
- Want to compare the ergonomic risk between two jobs? It’s well within the means of a Computer Visions tool to give a side-by-side comparison and breakdown what percentage of each task will likely injure a specific body part.
- Need to maintain the anonymity of employees? Advances in computer vision technology allows you to blur the faces of individuals to protect personally identifiable information.
AI tools for ergonomics were created to make the lives of safety professionals easier and more efficient. You don’t need large wearable exoskeletons on hundreds of employees, you don’t need extensive training to understand how they work, and you will never have to disrupt workstations in order to get the safety data you need.
Improving your safety culture has never been so intuitive.
Working with Computer Vision tools:
These technologies will continue to advance. If your firm cares about safety and wants to save time, consider giving one of these new firms a shot.
TuMeke Ergonomics is one provider of a Computer Vision tool for ergonomics and offers a 14-day free trial on its website (link here).
Have any questions or just want to chat? Feel free to shoot me an email at riley@tumeke.io.