Overall aim: To increase understanding of the extent, harm, costs and preventability of occupational ill-health. We will identify and develop the evidence necessary for HSE to implement its Health and Work Programme, and more widely, to help people in the health and safety system take greater responsibility for health at work. The Health and Work Programme will focus HSE’s major efforts on those conditions that are widespread, have life-limiting or life-altering impacts, and those with the greatest economic consequences. Stress, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and occupational lung diseases (OLDs) are foremost among these.
Contact Simon Armitage - Head of Science and Engineering Profession (HoSEP) Business Partner
simon.armitage@hse.gov.uk
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
To develop a wearable sensor that will gather worker's ergonomic data that can be easily interpreted to protect workers from occupational MSDs. It will also mitigate injury risk, reduce burden on health services and impr...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
The project aims to develop a wearable sensor to gather ergonomic data and protect workers from occupational MSDs, aligning with the goal of improving characterizations of exposure-responses.
The unique solution combines the use of the only technology to objectively assess the worker's ability to cope with job demands, with an accessible digital referral platform for SME managers and the self employed, and co...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: OXFORD MEDISTRESS LTD
The project uses wearable technology to assess worker health and capacity to cope with job demands, which aligns with the question's focus on innovative approaches to characterising exposure-responses and risk factors.
spacebands create software and wearable technology that makes workplaces safer. After gaining extensive press coverage and 1000+ customers globally with their contact tracing device (including the NHS, MoD, Panasonic, S...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: SPACEBANDS LTD
The project focuses on workplace safety technology using wearable sensors and software, aligning with the aim of improving characterizations of exposure-responses and risk factors in occupational health.