Gilbane Building Company, Triax Technologies, and Travelers are partnering to develop and implement wearable technologies that can help improve job site safety and reduce contractors’ financial risks.

 

From Builtworlds:

In late October, Travelers, Gilbane Building Company, and Triax announced a partnership to explore the potential of wearable devices and real-time data to elevate worker and overall site safety, quantify and mitigate risks, and potentially reduce overall losses. …

Triax’s flagship Spot-r platform monitors workers and equipment via devices worn on workers or tagged onto equipment and machinery. The wearable, for example, can detect worker falls and push a notification to designated personnel, telling them the type of alert and location, so appropriate and medical attention can be deployed. …

Gilbane has been working with Triax for over 18 months. After using the technology on a project site in Fairfield, Connecticut, the construction company spoke with Travelers, who insures many of the constructor’s projects, about the technology’s potential. …

Gilbane currently uses Spot-r at 10 job sites, and this partnership will examine data collected from two of these projects that are insured by Travelers: a manufacturing plant in North Carolina and a 60,000-square-foot, six-story building in New York City.

Through this partnership, data collected on Gilbane’s job sites will be shared with Travelers in an effort to understand how this technology can help mitigate safety risks and increase the overall level of worker safety.

“At the end of the day, we will have better insight into the kinds of things that are happening on site,” said to Bob Kreuzer, Vice President of Construction Risk Control at Travelers. “Our objective is to develop a stronger point of view around how wearables can be leveraged on the job site to help protect workers.”