If you are like most employers, you’re willing to do everything necessary to protect your staff from workplace injuries, not because you’re worried about Workmen’s Comp claims but because you sincerely care about your workers. So, if I told you that you could install a few simple tools to help prevent injuries would you do it? 

These tools are designed to alert your staff when dangerous weather conditions could threaten their safety. These tools work 24/7 wherever they are installed, in and around your work environments.

Icy Conditions

IceAlert® devices are designed to monitor freezing temperatures and icy conditions, which cause thousands of “slip and falls” injuries every year. These monitoring devices make freezing temperatures visible so your staff and customers know that walkways, stairwells, sidewalks, and roadways could be slippery. Knowing beforehand that slippery conditions exist will help them take the necessary precautions to walk or drive more carefully to prevent falls and accidents. 

Heat Safety is a Growing Concern

A HeatAlert™ monitoring station is the other tool you can install in your indoor and outdoor work environments.  These tools monitor and calculate the heat index and alert employees when the index exceeds OSHA’s safety standard.  OSHA has called excessive heat the silent killer because heat stress (heat illness) kills more people every year than any other weather event.  OSHA is now enforcing new heat illness alleviation policies to reduce on-the-job heat illness, injuries, and deaths. And OSHA recently lowered their threshold for the cautionary and dangerous workplace heat index to 80 degrees or above, because even at 80 degrees heat stress can be deadly. Therefore, OSHA is now aggressively focusing their attention and enforcement resources on this deadly workplace hazard. HeatAlert® monitoring stations will help you be OSHA compliant. 

Like icy sidewalks, a hazardous heat index is invisible. Heat stress usually builds up gradually and workers are like the frog in the slowly heated pot of water. Neither the frog nor the workers are aware of the growing danger until it’s too late. And like the frog, the first indication your worker might be suffering from heat stress could already be a full blown medical emergency. Every year over 600 people die from heat illness and many thousands more suffer from non-fatal, but debilitating, heat injuries.

Heat illness threatens more and more workers worldwide, as the climate heats up and workplace temperatures continue to rise. It doesn’t matter if the dangerous heat index is caused by the weather or originates from radiant heat sources attributable to work processes or equipment, the hazards of heat stress are the same. Even the engine room of a submarine, cruising under the polar ice cap, can expose sailors to deadly heat stress.

But you can make all these dangerous environmental hazards VISIBLE to your workforce so they can exercise caution in icy conditions or implement your heat illness mitigation policy when the heat index rises to a dangerous level. 

IceAlert® devices turn blue when freezing temperatures and icy conditions exist.

HeatAlert™ monitoring stations display flashing strobe lights when the heat index reaches “caution, “extreme caution” or “dangerous levels”, as defined by OSHA.

If you’re like most employers, you sincerely care about your workforce and want to protect them from workplace injuries. Installing IceAlert® and HeatAlert™ monitoring devices in and around your worksites and training your staff to careful watch for dangerous conditions will give them the tools they need to proactively prevent extreme weather related injuries.