Pro-Active Safety Systems Technologies Inc. was founded in 2006 to tackle workplace safety challenges and to prevent needless injuries and fatalities. Not only do workplace accidents affect our businesses but our families and communities as well. Our commitment is to reduce the risk, highlight awareness and continue to do something about it!
Why Do We Do It
Simply, there are too many workplace accidents. The driving force behind PSST is the desire to save lives in the workplace. The interesting thing is, employing our system also has many benefits beyond our driving force, and include many operational benefits;
The Opportunity
Each year industrial mobile equipment such as lift trucks, skid steer loaders and haul trucks are invovled in thousands of workplace accidents
In fact, acording to 2007 statistics from the Associaton of Workers' Compentsation Boards of Canada and the U.S. Bureau of Labour, mobile equipment was the source of over 275 deaths and 20,000 lost time injuries across Canada and the United States.
Using data from Work Safe BC and the US Nationaly Safety Council, we estimate the annual impact of these accidents oto exceed $US 750 million. These figures represent worker costs only and do not include damages to property and equipment.
Applications
Our solutions have been designed for use in a wide range of industrial applications. The components of the system can be quickly and easily configured to meet the specific needs of each workplace. Some examples are;
How We Do It
Using Advanced radio-frequency identification (RFID) technologies, PSST has developed a patent pending collision avoidance system that can be tailored to a wide range of mobile equipment and workplace environments.
The system is able to quickly and accurately measure the proximity of people, objects and vehicles within the workplace. These real-time proximity measurements are then used to trigger warnings to both workers and vehicle operators when safety zones have been breached.
A typical installation would include the use of both a warning and danger zone with distinctive signalling, alerting machine operators and workers in potential dangerous situations. Based on ground speed, these zones dynamically adjust to the machine speed assuring the worker is always alerted at appropriate times.