As users get bombarded with daily reminders to wear sunscreen by the pool and posters with cliché sayings, keep in mind the meaning behind them is vitally important.
As an active participant on the company’s safety committee, it can be easy to turn a safety project into a long term, high investment project that will be as safe as possible. But it can often come at the expense of a simpler solution that can start making the front line worker safer NOW rather than tomorrow.
Optimizing current solutions
As safety professionals, advisors, or just leaders of people, they are responsible for those that are exposed to hazards on the front lines doing the work. It is their responsibility to make sure that they find sensing solutions that not only protect, but can be implemented quickly and easily to ensure protection now.
They attempt to optimize current solutions by multiple factors
But here lies the dichotomy; whatever the sensing solution is, it can’t be cheap and create the chance to supply false security. These issues create contradictions. They need inexpensive but not cheap, sophisticated but not complicated, fast and easy to install but not to cause any adverse effect in the production environment.
They attempt to optimize current solutions by multiple factors and the result is typically a well-balanced, mediocre solution. When real safety problems occur, they need step changes in technology that take away the balancing act of specs and open up new ways to keep people safe.
Enter wireless communication
They have been proving in use with their dependence on cellular phones for over a decade with increasing reliability. They are replacing wired home phone lines with cellphones, airplane boarding passes with e-tickets on their cellphones, and even doing the banking over the cellphones.
Industrial wireless communications are more robust and reliable than they have ever been and are ready for the mainstream of industrial market sensing applications.
Cost savings of wireless is apparent: less wiring, less money
The cost savings of wireless are readily apparent: less wiring, less money
The cost savings of wireless are readily apparent: less wiring, less money. What is sometimes lost is the ease and speed of installation. This is where wireless can offer a step change in safety.
Need additional points to monitor, no problem. Need to move a point to a more ideal location, no problem. It is now easier and faster than ever to get monitoring installed that will start to protect the people now.
Wireless cost savings
As a vendor, allowing the limitations of old technology and ‘it’s always been done this way’ to become excuses against creating better ways to bring value to the customers will be detrimental as new technology and services emerge.
It’s on us to not only adapt new technology but to embrace it as the path forward. Further they must be instrumental in creating the data to prove performance and reliability.
