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Advanced Wheel Chock System

Rite-Hite’s global wheel chock (GWC) combines ultrasonic sensors with a safe and dependable communication system to keep employees safe. Manually positioned extra-long footbed maintains continuous downward force on tires to reduce the potential for movement during loading and unloading.

Rite-Hite’s global wheel chock (GWC) combines ultrasonic sensors with a safe and...

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Environmental Health & Safety Industry News

Boston Engineers Develop Low-Cost ‘Robotic Lung’ – Seek Manufacturers for Mass Production

To help tackle ventilator shortages both in the U.S. and around the world, two robotics experts founded The Ventilator Project, and, with a cast of many partners – corporate manufacturing to garage innovators – they’ve built a prototype for rapid FDA approval. They hope to recruit more manufacturing partners and achieve production of 60,000 units a month by the end of summer.

Keep Your Distance: System Alerts Workers When They’re Too Close

Triax Technologies has developed Proximity Trace, which emits an alert with escalating volume to remind industrial and construction employees about social distancing protocols. Affixed to a wearable device, it also maintains a reliable record for contact tracing if a worker contracts COVID-19.