Long hours spent doing taxing manual labor in extreme temperatures under the blazing sun. Financial pressures leading to missed water or shade breaks. Dehydration, heat stroke, heat exhaustion and death are all common outcomes of agricultural work.
Farm workers die from heat-related illnesses at a rate 20 times greater than other U.S. civilian workers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Excessive heat exposure has killed and injured tens of thousands of agricultural workers in the past 30 years.
PassPatch is a cost-effective preventative solution:
- A small piece of wearable personal protective equipment (PPE) for field workers that reports back to a central monitor.
- An alert is issued when a person’s body temperature approaches a range indicating heat stress.
- This enables safety protocols to be deployed to immediately locate and care for the worker in distress.
- Helps ensure compliance with California T8CCR 3395 heat illbess prevention requirements.
PassPatch offers remote monitoring with a centralized notification system and easily functions in extreme heat environments.
PassPatch can help save the lives of agricultural workers around the world.
As the climate changes, rainfall patterns shift and fire seasons lengthen, farms and agricultural sites are increasingly affected by extreme temperature fluctuations, floods, droughts and fires. With each passing year, it becomes more critically important to monitor the health and safety of workers.
Learn more about PassPatch technology.
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