Turning numbers into knowledge: sensors for safety, health, well-being, and productivity

Details

• Personal Author:
  DeBord, D. Gayle ; Hoover, Mark D.
• Description:
  The industrial hygiene community has witnessed exponential growth in the use of sensors, especially by individuals. Remote wireless sensors are now monitoring worker health, the environment, agriculture, work sites, disaster relief, and "smart" buildings and facilities. Sensors hold great promise for empowering workers and improving risk-informed management decisions. But how will we validate and apply the rapidly evolving sensor technologies, some of which have not yet been invented or even imagined? Our community can take practical steps to transform the incredible promise of sensors into credible industrial hygiene practice. The vision discussed in this article describes how NIOSH is combining an informatics-based mindset with the industrial hygiene decision-making framework (anticipate, recognize, evaluate, communicate, control, and confirm) to apply a comprehensive life-cycle approach to sensor development, validation, and application. Effective partnerships will help us engage the community, inform the interested, reward the responsive, and understand and incentivize the reluctant to develop and apply sensors wisely. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Control Technology Exposure-assessment Industrial-hygiene Monitoring-systems Monitors Sensors
• ISSN:
  1066-7660
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  22-26
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046017
• Citation:
  Synergist 2015 Mar; 26(3):22-26
• Email:
  mhoover1@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  The Synergist
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9a5c5b70eba245de9fd362099fc0c4dd3f966fc0bdeb74ffcfa76dfb24960720b2339c2ee369f46069d5fcf79cd2b1c6025abbf75c1eda8610981e9d32e4e05b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201208/cdc_201208_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.59 MB ]