SlateSafety is excited to announce its official partnership with the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®). This is an exciting advancement for SlateSafety, which now includes ACGIH® physiological monitoring guidelines as a configurable software loadout to be easily applied across an organization’s workforce.
The ACGIH® is a prominent scientific organization in the occupational and environmental health spaces that publishes the well-known Threshold Limit Values (TLVs®) and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs®) guidelines. These health-based values are established by committees that review existing published and peer-reviewed literature in various scientific disciplines (e.g., industrial hygiene, toxicology, occupational medicine, and epidemiology).
“ACGIH is proud of continuing the delivery of serious science to the OEHS community as a result of our organization’s partnership with SlateSafety. In addition to advancing ACGIH’s Mission of promoting occupational and environmental health and safety, this dynamic collaboration provides scientific field practitioners with heightened levels of TLV data related to heat stress monitoring,” said ACGIH Executive Director Frank Mortl III, CAE.
In practice, organizations utilizing SlateSafety devices can now quickly deploy ACGIH® guidelines for physiological monitoring across their organization in seconds. With this new loadout, onsite safety officials can quickly be alerted when a worker has crossed one of the guidelines leading to quicker worker interventions and a safer workforce environment.
“This is tremendous,” said Chris Ward, VP of Growth at SlateSafety. “This partnership provides the needed connection between technology provider, practitioner and scientific-based research. We’ve been big fans of the work ACGIH® has done for a while now and we’re looking forward to an exciting future.”
Once a worker triggers an alert the BAND V2 also features ‘Return-To-Work’ notifications. These notifications are triggered after a worker intervention has taken place and the worker has adequately rested. Once their heart rate, core temperature or exertion levels have returned to a safe range a notification is sent, signaling the worker is safe to resume activities. This improved process helps to automate and better govern work/rest cycles for organizations.
To learn more about the ACGIH, visit their website.
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