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product marketing manager at Cority,
one of the winners of this year's 5-Star
Safety Software awards.
Baldry's company has observed that
the new perspectives offered by the
pandemic have "shifted organizational
behavior with respect to technology
investment. We've seen growing interest
and investment from organizations,
across industry sectors, in technology to
support pandemic management and
business continuity.
Specifically, interest in technology to
support returning furloughed employees
to work has really driven the
environmental, health, safety and quality
(EHSQ) management software market
over the past few months and likely
disrupted prior product development
plans of many EHSQ software vendors."
Health tech and telehealth offerings
have also been growing in importance
due to a growing concern for employee
wellbeing, particularly mental health.
"With the increased focus on health
and wellness triggered by the pandemic,
it's likely that interest in wearables and
Internet of Things devices will only
continue to grow. Wearables are also
being explored to support contact
tracing, where a user would receive an
alert when in proximity to someone who
has tested positive for COVID-19.
Moreover, technology firms are
exploring linking personal health data
captured via wearables with clinical
symptomology that could create early
warning signs of potential infection,
driving other workflows," says Baldry.
Any tool that can help improve
workers' health and safety is useful for
the OHS sector. For businesses and
organizations that plan to invest in
safety software, this list is a good place
to start.
"Advances in tech mean that in
seconds, our software can search for,
read and record data with an accuracy
that is impossible for humans. It
automatically organizes that data and
guides people to take preventative
action. Cloud computing makes that
guidance available to anyone with
authority to access it – powerful and
economical indeed," says Hallsworth.
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"We've seen growing
interest and investment
from organizations, across
industry sectors, in technology
to support pandemic
management and business
continuity"
Sean Baldry, Cority
Upbeat market trends
Aside from telework and training,
several other trends are coming up in
the OHS tech space. COS organized a
roundtable with industry leaders in
2020 to discuss the growing
importance of tech solutions in safety.
Many of the ideas shared by the
participants are gaining traction.
"COVID-19 has certainly shifted
perspectives on workplace health and
safety in ways, and at rates we hadn't
anticipated even a few short months
ago. Interestingly, many organizations
are seeing, perhaps for the first time, a
real tangible connection between their
ability to manage risk and their
long-term viability," says Sean Baldry,
