Digitalisation is essential to optimise industrial processes, contributes to visibility and enables companies to create safer working environments for their teams.

Implementing technology can directly minimize the risk of workplace accidents and fatalities through the use of digital PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and various devices that can protect employees. This use case makes it easy for industrial workers to locate themselves in the event of an accident, even when they are not outdoors or trapped in confined spaces.

Technology can incorporate immediate notifications in case of falls or strong impacts and can vibrate or sound in front of dangerous areas or events. In addition, in the special context of the pandemic in which we find ourselves, They can alert when social distancing is broken and allow contact tracing if a positive case of Covid-19 is detected.

By using IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence), we can collect and provide a vast amount of data that is used in multiple ways, for marketing purposes. industrial safety, production optimization, etc., establishing, in this way:

• Better protocols and processes according to your own operation
• Improvements in logistics and supply chain
• Ability to detect different anomalous behaviors and proactively predict their occurrence, allowing solutions to be found and anticipating them before they have a greater impact.

With data, and therefore visibility, each industrial safety manager knows what happened and why, allowing them to make strategic decisions for the future, redesigning and achieving better and more solid golden rules, all aimed at improving workplace safety.

Therefore, it is fair to say that the decisions that is taken for security reasons generate benefits that go far beyond their original objectives, which also affects economic growth. Technology not only protects employees and, in this particular scenario, provides industries with the right environment to continue operating, but it can also help them reduce production times and improve their management and operation.

Digitalizing industrial safety should not become one of many priorities; it should be one of the most important values and assets of every industry. Not only is it the right thing to do, but it will also take our companies to the next level, with higher standards that can lead to long-term economic gains. Making the decision to invest in industrial technology is the real game-changer for these times.

The golden rules of safety are based on feedback and experience. It's time to start taking advantage of the opportunities that digital advancement is bringing to the table, and being able to have the complete image, and the total and complete information of our operation on one screen, collected, combined and analyzed.It is at this point that we will be able to better protect our teams and visualize our weak points, turning them into opportunities for a better future. It is time to wake up from this offline world and live in the connected and online present.

Source: https://www.ikusi.com/es/blog/digitalizacion-para-mejorar-la-seguridad-industrial/