hello everyone i'm rachel jones and i welcome you all to executive corner
expert talks today i'm with adam poole he's the ceo of safety compass they provide the
link between critical information about safety and people at work here at calkine we bring
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you can create multiple passive income streams hello adam and a very warm welcome to you today
hi rachel thanks for the opportunity to talk today excellent good to chat with you now first off
could you tell us a little bit more about safety compass and what you do
sure so safety compass is a smartphone app that uses augmented reality and geofencing
to communicate safety information to people at work in all sorts of industries from construction
utilities right through to manufacturing any heavy industry is suitable for safety compass
now the concept of workplace unity through augmented reality sounds interesting
how do you utilize this for alerting people of dangerous work areas sure so we geolocate
workplace safety information in the work environment and then once a person comes within
a certain distance of that hazardous area they receive a notification
that says there's electrical hazards ahead or asbestos or something for example and then it's
just a matter of opening that notification up and panning your phone around the work area and then
the information superimposed straight onto your camera view so you can just point it at a machine
or a piece of equipment and receive all the information you need about that particular device
as we know millions of people are injured at work from this stance do you believe workplaces are
becoming safer or more dangerous i think they're it's a bit of both they're they're becoming safer
in um i guess the western world australia has seen some good drops in workplace safety incidents
um same as the us but in the states they're still sustaining something like five and a half thousand
work fatalities a year so in some of the the smaller regions the more developing regions
those stats are significantly higher and that's a key area that we're working on expanding into
around south south east asia china india for example where safety isn't as good as it could be
in some cases so adam what simple things can employers do to improve safety measures at work
one of the best things that employers can do to improve safety is to make access to that critical
safety information easier so a lot of that safety info exists but it's locked up in operator manuals
or safe work instructions of some sort they're often paper-based or available on intranets
so the information exists but it's difficult to navigate and implement on site so that's
where safety compass can provide the link between that information and the people that need it most
and you mentioned employers getting information about their work site before they even arrive
to work in your opinion what do you think particularly frontline workers should be aware
of before reaching their work site there's a lot of different hazards in a lot of different work
environments and so if you're working in a utility sector for example you might go to five or six
different sites throughout the day and those five or six sites have their own hazards and their own
risk profile so it can be hard to actually access that information and retain it and implement that
on site so the more complex the work environment the more complex the information tends to be
and adam do you have any new features coming up at safety compass
sure we're improving our geo fencing at safety compass so you can do things like clock a person
in when they enter a site which is great for loan worker safety and we're also improving our
augmented reality with some spatial anchors uh and much more interactive augmented reality than what
we have now and what do you think the future is of workplaces adopting apps to help ease their work
i think apps in the workplace are becoming more and more a tool of trade
so it's important to have those apps that are good quality and useful for people at work
so you just don't go through antique boxes for compliance sake
do you believe safety compass is going some way to saving lives we can see with safety compass
analytics that people are interacting with information a lot more than they would through
an annual training day or a one-off induction for example and being designed and built specifically
for frontline people at work i think it's got some great potential to help keep people safe
excellent well adam it's been fabulous chatting with you today thank you so much for your time
thanks a lot with that i will sign off for today but watch
this space for more till then stay apprised and invest wise with kalkine