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Technology Can Be The Keystone of Safe, Productive & Quality Driven Operations

Safe employees are not only a crucial aim of any organization, they are in fact the keystone of productive operations delivering high quality. Although it is no secret that safety, quality, and productivity go hand-in-hand, the prevailing cultures and safety systems in many workplaces are not structured with this principle at their core.

Some employers and safety pros may assume that the predictive risk management tool, AlertMeter^® alertness testing is intended and appropriate only for certain industries, such as those in which employees have a certain degree of autonomy; clock in/out in the same place; and where risk from fatigue and impairment extremely apparent. 

However, predictive risk management is not industry-specific. It is used in industries ranging from healthcare to mining, and provides valuable insight for any company with human employees.

You may be surprised to learn that a fit-for-work program using AlertMeter^® can support and enhance the responsibility for safety that everyone shares--not only among the front-line employee users, but at all levels, no matter their exposure to worksite hazards.

Safety is everyone's concern, so let's examine how AlertMeter^® works as a tool for awareness and communication in the shared responsibility for safety.

A large company was interested to know how impairment testing compared to their drug testing program in terms of value, cost, and the return on the investment in each. Although every company is different, we wanted to share what this one learned.

Fatigue is a common factor in workplace accidents and near misses, and although more and more organizations are recognizing the importance of monitoring it, fatigue may often be thought of as synonymous with sleepiness or drowsiness and that all fatigue results from insufficient restorative sleep. 

Drug testing’s limitations as a safety measure have been firmly established. Yet despite experiencing these limitations, companies have continued relying on drug testing, considering it to be the only tool that can have any effect in combating impairment in their workforce.