While safety clothes and equipment such as goggles and helmets have not changed much over the years, there are a host of new wearable smart clothing items that are digitised to make your work life both easier and safer. Here are some of the top new tech safety items that you can wear on the site, says sbci.com:
Safety glasses: While site glasses are manufactured to be protect your face and eyes while also providing clear unobstructed vision, there has been an advancement or two along the way. US-based brand XOEye Technologies manufactures smart glasses that feature built-in cameras that can be used to map schematics in a 3D real-time environment. Instead of having to stop work to refer to the plans, wearers can now have the plans displayed on their glasses, which are made with shatterproof enhanced acrylic frames and lens panels.- Halo lamp: Hands-free headlamps have been around for years, but there is a new lighting solution on the market that provides 360° light supply – Illumagear’s Halo Light. The headlamp is designed to fit snuggly to any hard-hat design, features a battery that can provide 34 hours of operational time, and can light up to 200m on high setting. There is also a built-in spotlight that illuminates 20m directly ahead.
- Smart clothes: German brand Fraunhofer, for example, has protective jobsite gloves that change colour when they come into contact with various toxic substances. This alerts wearers to a possible problem so that they can react accordingly. Brands like DeWalt have gone a step further when it comes to comfort on the jobsite – their reflective heated jackets feature built-in battery packs that run a heating system so that anyone working in freezing temperatures can maintain a warm body temperature. There are also cooling jackets that pump liquid through a piping system to keep wearers cool in high temperature workplaces.
