R-Link

With over 100,000 workers protected from over exposure to HAV using our first and second generation wearables, Reactec expanded the utility of R-Link to protect employees from more workplace health risks on a single smart watch. We’ve developed R-Link with the latest ultrawide band technology (UWB) to detect dangerous proximity to heavy equipment in real-time, while the data collected on near-misses, enables employers to refine controls.

Our third-generation wearable will offer operatives even more protection from workplace health risks in the near future, including an ability to ingest risk data from other IoT enabled sensors such as noise and dust. Geo-fenced exclusion zones and two-way communication for evacuation and mustering will connect employees with their workforce. Regular check-in/check-out functionality will monitor the activity of isolated workers, while panic mode, will raise the alarm to support lone workers.

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Detection & monitoring technology

Vibration monitoring

Wearable technology

Reactec Ltd.

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Reactec Analytics

A single interface to manage risk data and track control activity, turning exposure data into actionable intelligence.

Reactec’s Analytics software is the heart of Reactec’s ecosystem. Reactec’s ecosystem includes devices to automatically collate and securely transmit data to...

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RASOR

RASOR is a mobile gateway to provide unprecedented insight for supervisors of busy teams while supporting lone workers:
• Real-time location & visibility of workers’ exposure data from across Reactec’s eco-system • Real-time app to train operators for safest and most efficient use of tools • Lo...

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Noise Monitors

We have teamed up with experienced noise measurement experts to integrate their precision sensor technology into our ecosystem with automatic live data capture and cloud-based analytics to take the guesswork out of workplace noise monitoring.

We offer two types of noise dosebadge to enable you t...

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Dust Monitors

Reactec have partnered with Trolex, a specialist in dust monitoring, to integrate their sensor technology into the Reactec eco-system to ease record management and reporting of dust monitoring.

The Trolex XD-One is a new, wearable, personal dust monitor that makes it possible to determine how su...

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Whitepaper

An independent report by the IOM on the validity of the data produced by Reactec’s HAVwear to inform a suitable and sufficient risk assessment

The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) was requested by Reactec to conduct an independent review of data collected using the HAVwear system and subsequently provided a report in January 2018.

HAVwear collects two types of assessment data to be viewed online:

It uses a tools pre-defined vibration magnitude and length of time the tool is in use to calculate exposure points in accordance with The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 and HSE guidance. Reactec name this type of exposure points as “Tool Exposure Points” (TEP).

It also determines the vibration transmitted to the tool wearer’s wrist and mathematically corrects for the energy loss between the wrist and the tool grip point. The HAVwear uses this determined vibration magnitude and the length of time the tool is in use to calculate exposure points relating to real-time vibration exposure experienced by the wearer. Reactec name this type of exposure points as “Sensed Exposure Points” (SEP).

The purpose of the report was to demonstrate if HAVwear’s SEP data can be used: (1) to inform a suitable and sufficient risk assessment; and (2) in the development of risk reduction control measures for HAVS

Whitepaper

Determination of hand-transmitted vibration risk on the human.

Objective

The purpose of this paper is to examine the eﬀectiveness of the proposed consideration for hand transmitted vibration measurement on the human.

Method

To obtain the temporary threshold shift (TTS) in the ﬁngertip vibrotactile perception threshold, the Vibrotactile perception thresholds were measured before and after the subjects were exposed to hand-transmitted vibration from the hand-held tool. The vibration magnitude has been measured by using conventional vibration measurement on the tool and by using the proposed consideration vibration on the human simultaneously.

Results

The proposed hand-transmitted vibration measurement on the subject was proportional with increasing TTS. In contrast the data from conventional vibration measurement on the tool shows a relatively constant vibration level while TTS increases within a subject group.

Conclusion

The proposed measurement method of hand-transmitted vibration on the subject captures at least some of the eﬀects off actors relating to the human interaction with the tool identiﬁed within Annex D of the ISO 5349-1 standard. The eﬀectiveness of the proposed hand-transmitted vibration measurement consideration on the human for improved understanding of tool vibration exposure has been shown.

S. Maeda1, M.D. Taylor2,∗, L.C. Anderson3, J. McLaughlin3 1 Kindai University, Department of Applied Sociology, Faculty of Applied Sociology, 3-4-1, Kowakae, Higashiosaka, Osaka, 577-8502, Japan

Edinburgh Napier University, School of Engineering and the Built Environment, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH10 5DT, UK3

Reactec Ltd., Vantage Point, 3 Cultins Road, Edinburgh, EH11 4DF, UK

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