Workplace Fatigue Monitoring Wearable (BaselineNC™)

The ONLY real-time monitoring solution that can detect and prevent the onset of worker fatigue with 98% biometric data accuracy.

Further enabling the “human sensor” in safety-critical industrial operations.

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Is Your Workplace Fatigue Management Reactive Rather Than Preventative?

In safety-critical industrial operations, fatigue has been a contributory factor in many accidents, incidents and near misses. Tragically leading to fatalities, injuries and environmental damage. Resulting in disruption to organisations and the public with significant emotional and financial costs. Some organisations are addressing the important issue of workplace fatigue management, but this can be reactive rather than preventative. Predictive analytics through real-time monitoring are utilised to mitigate equipment and machinery failure, but what about the most valuable, yet most vulnerable part of our system? The human asset; who needs to be protected from harm.

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Fatigue Kills

Declining mental and physical performance can result in serious injuries and multiple fatalities, and the HSE state that fatigue has been implicated in 20% of accidents on major roads, with the European Commission highlighting that over 50% of surveyed long-haul drivers have at some time almost fallen asleep at the wheel.

Root Cause of Major Environmental Accidents

According to the HSE, fatigue was a root cause of the devastating and emotionally impactful BP Texas City Refinery, British Rail Clapham Junction, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, MS Herald of Free Enterprise and NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disasters.

Lost Productive Work Time (LPT)

A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine article found that 65.7% of fatigued workers in the U.S. reported health-related LPT compared with 26.4% of those without fatigue, and CCOHS state there are multiple negative mental and physical performance consequences related to workplace fatigue that can lead to increased sick time, greater absenteeism and a higher rate of staff turnover.

Fatigue-Related Organisational Costs

The HSE estimates that fatigue costs £115 to £240 million (GBP) per year in the UK in terms of work accidents alone and workers with fatigue cost U.S. employers $136.4 billion (USD) annually according to a Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine article, negatively impacting organisations’ lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR).

Reactive Workplace Fatigue Management

Predictive analytics through real-time monitoring are utilised in asset performance management (APM) to enable preventative maintenance, but the detection and management of safety-critical human performance physiological indicators such as worker fatigue and heat stress can be reactive instead of preventative.

Workers “Feel Fine” and Continue Working

Compliance, operations and safety data in relation to human system integration (HSI) can be limited to sporadic observation and manual qualitative data entry and is open to one-sided subjective intuition and self-assessment from workers — who may think they feel fine — without quantitative biometric insights into the physiological indicators of fatigue and heat stress.

BaselineNC Solution: The ONLY Real-Time Workplace Fatigue Monitoring Wearable With 98% Biometric Data Accuracy

Designed to mitigate fatigue-related accidents and incidents whilst increasing worker productivity — by human factors experts — using predictive analytics through real-time monitoring of biometric data, BaselineNC has been developed in alignment and partnership with public safety initiatives such as the Driver Innovation Safety Challenge (DISC), EIT Urban Mobility and Vision Zero. In safety-critical industrial operations, this further enables the “human sensor” and allows for a “preventative maintenance” approach — that is often utilised in APM — in relation to the pre-emptive detection of the onset of worker fatigue and heat stress. This ultimately supports proactive human performance management and the optimisation of worker safety and well-being, especially in relation to healthy shift patterns and working hours.

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Mitigate Your Fatigue-Related Accidents and Incidents

By utilising predictive analytics — to detect signs of worker fatigue — through real-time monitoring of individual workers baselined biometric data with 98% accuracy (such as blood oxygen saturation, electrodermal activity, galvanic skin response, heart rate variability (RR), movement patterns using a 6-axis accelerometer and skin temperature).

Increase Your Workers Safety and Productivity

By using a “traffic light” RAG status alert system — fatigued (red), approaching fatigue (amber) or not fatigued (green) — powered by human factors expertise and machine learning, enabling current worker fatigue and heat stress status updates to be sent wirelessly every minute — with GPS location information — to your control room supervisors, leading to timely safety-critical interventions with the aim of reducing human error.

Reduce Your Fatigue-Related Organisational Costs

By reducing the likelihood of fatigue-related accidents and incidents whilst increasing worker productivity, your organisation can effectively manage workplace fatigue leading to better job performance, reduced worker stress and less downtime, positively impacting your LTIFR rate and overall productivity costs.

Enable Preventative Workplace Fatigue Management

By enhancing the “human sensor” in safety-critical industrial operations and utilising a “preventative maintenance” approach — that is often utilised in APM — in relation to the pre-emptive detection of the onset of worker fatigue and heat stress with real-time data collected from an energy-efficient, lightweight, mobile and unobtrusive wrist-worn industrial internet of things (IIoT) device.

Support Healthy Working Patterns

By using a more holistic HSI approach — in relation to the physiological indicators of worker fatigue and heat stress — that also gathers valuable quantitative biometric data insights and does not just rely on limited one-sided qualitative data that is grounded in subjective intuition and self-assessment from workers, enabling a healthy break and substitution culture whilst validating shift pattern and working hours planning.

Empower Enterprise-Wide Workplace Fatigue Management

By elevating the dangers of worker fatigue and heat stress into an enterprise-wide priority at your organisation — from front-line workers to the boardroom — using a data-driven approach, that proactively aims prevent accidents and incidents and most importantly protect humans from harm and save lives.

Workplace fatigue monitoring is evolving fast, but not all solutions are created equal. While eye tracking measures blink rates and gaze patterns, wearable sensors go deeper. BaselineNC uses personalised biometric data such as blood oxygen saturation, electrodermal activity, galvanic skin response, heart rate variability (RR), movement patterns using a 6-axis accelerometer and skin temperature for a more holistic view of fatigue:

Real-Time Alerts
Cost Effective
Detects the Onset of Fatigue
Ease of Use
High Accuracy Level
Mobile
Straightforward Implementation
Unobtrusive

Real-Time Alerts
Cost Effective
Detects the Onset of Fatigue
Ease of Use
High Accuracy Level
Mobile
Straightforward Implementation
Unobtrusive

Why does this matter? Wearables detect fatigue before it affects performance, whereas eye tracking only sees fatigue once it is already impacting behaviour. Wearables allow you to intervene before it is too late. For example, one of the assessment results detailed in the BaselineNC Advanced Fatigue Monitoring System White Paper showed the pre-emptive detection of the onset of worker fatigue by BaselineNC HOURS before two visually observed microsleeps. There were also several other microsleep episodes within this time frame and BaselineNC was able to highlight the wearer’s steady decline to a state of dangerous fatigue.

The Benefits of BaselineNC to You, Your Workers, Your Organisation and the Public

Protect Humans and the Environment From Harm

Effective workplace fatigue management can help mitigate accidents and incidents that may lead to tragic fatalities, injuries and environmental damage that emotionally, mentally and physically affect workers and the public.

Gain Financial and Productivity Benefits

Positively impact your LTIFR rate and overall productivity costs — and other financial costs such as potential insurance and legal expenses — by mitigating the negative impacts of fatigue-related accidents and incidents that can lead to higher but healthy worker performance, lower absence rates and less downtime.

Evolve From Only Worker Subjective Intuition and Self-Assessment

There is operational evidence that BaselineNC delivers effective situational awareness monitoring of fatigue onset with 98% biometric data accuracy. For example, one of the assessment results showed the pre-emptive detection of the onset of worker fatigue by BaselineNC HOURS before two visually observed microsleeps. There were also several other microsleep episodes within this time frame.

Scale an Organisational Workplace Fatigue Monitoring Solution

BaselineNC can be quickly trialed, implemented and scaled to multiple sites across your organisation providing a more consistent, holistic and enterprise-wide workplace fatigue management strategy through the use of an energy-efficient, lightweight, mobile and unobtrusive wrist-worn IIoT device.

Prove Optimisations With Longitudinal Workplace Fatigue Data

Hone healthy shift patterns and working hours with predictive and real-time monitoring data — that can be viewed at various levels in your organisation — using dashboards and other business analytics tools with the ultimate goal of improving your worker safety and well-being.

Leverage Award-Winning Human Factors Expertise

By investing in BaselineNC you are also partnering with human factors experts who have a continuous improvement mindset and a passion to optimise workplace safety, demonstrated by the recent achievement of winning the Innovation Award at the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) Awards 2024.

BaselineNC White Paper: Advanced Fatigue Monitoring System

This white paper provides operational evidence — from a combination of comprehensive IHF and independent assessment results — that BaselineNC delivers effective situational awareness monitoring of fatigue onset with 98% biometric data accuracy. For example, one of the assessment results showed the pre-emptive detection of the onset of worker fatigue by BaselineNC HOURS before two visually observed microsleeps. There were also several other microsleep episodes within this time frame and BaselineNC was able to highlight the wearer's steady decline to a state of dangerous fatigue.

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