From the beginning of time, man’s earliest
ancestors built structures designed to keep themselves safe from all sorts of
elements and conditions.
While those elements have certainly changed over the years, fortunately, there are still a number of ways that you can help to keep your building — and its occupants — safer.
While those elements have certainly changed over the years, fortunately, there are still a number of ways that you can help to keep your building — and its occupants — safer.
Today, technology is being used in all stages
and phases of the commercial real estate industry, to help keep people safer
and healthier. Let’s take a closer look at 3 of the ways that technology is
being used to make commercial real estate safer.
Wearable
technology
Commercial real estate construction can be a
dangerous industry. All commercial construction workers have heard of the
“Fatal Four,” or falls, struck-bys, electrocution, and caught in-betweens — all of which are major causes for
concern in the industry. As a result, Human Condition Safety has created a unique
line of construction wearables including safety vests and hard hats with
built-in sensors, GPS, real-time locating, and more. What’s more, the equipment
can be charged simply using solar and kinetic energy.
This line of smart personal protective
equipment (PPE) can serve to keep its wearers safe, sensing if particulates in the
air become toxic and serving as an airbag in case of a dangerous fall or a
location device if someone happens to go missing.
Peter E. Raymond, CEO of Human Condition Safety, has been quoted as saying “We built Human Condition Safety to really help the serious issue of construction workers being injured and killed on job sites. It just feels like such an old problem that needs to be addressed, and we’re aiming, by 2025, to eliminate deaths on job sites globally.”
Peter E. Raymond, CEO of Human Condition Safety, has been quoted as saying “We built Human Condition Safety to really help the serious issue of construction workers being injured and killed on job sites. It just feels like such an old problem that needs to be addressed, and we’re aiming, by 2025, to eliminate deaths on job sites globally.”
Mobile
technology
It comes as no surprise that safety has become
a huge application of mobile technology. Today, smartphones and mobile apps
have made it infinitely easier to communicate and collaborate with your team
remotely and in real time. Being able to communicate in this way helps to ensure
that any issues get resolved quickly and effectively — and that every stakeholder has a
say in the decision.
What’s more, there are a number of apps that
have been designed especially for the commercial real estate sector, helping to
quickly disseminate important information in the unfortunate event of a natural
disaster or some other kind of emergency (e.g., active shooter, a structure
fire, etc). By connecting these types of platforms to smartphones, owned
by nearly 80% of the US adult population, technology can play a huge
role in helping to keep the occupants of your building safer.
Drones
Drones are another type of technology used
throughout commercial real estate, especially at construction sites to help
inspect the area and look for hazards, and also monitor the workers and their
progress. However, a newer application is coming forward for drones — assisting in the safety department
of commercial buildings to help make sure that employees are safe.
Jason Galoozis, Safety Director of F.E. Moran,
explains how his team is putting this type of technology to work: “Drones can
help eliminate the need for company employees or the safety team to conduct
high-risk pre-project start inspections on elevated surfaces. These elevated
surfaces could be older or abandoned structures — which could pose serious hazards to
our employees.”
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