Health and safety requires continuous effort to prevent accidents, minimise near misses, and ensure compliance. In building maintenance, manufacturing, or industrial environments, the challenges of health and safety are exacerbated by a range of elevated risk factors, from dangerous equipment to personnel unfamiliar with the site to constantly changing conditions.
It is important to use every tool at your disposal to maximise health and safety at your facility. This includes advanced technologies such as Asset Reality Capture.
Asset Reality Capture delivers a range of operational benefits in building maintenance, manufacturing, and industry. The health and safety-related benefits are among the most important.
Asset Reality Capture – A Brief Overview
With Tantek 4D’s Asset Reality Capture solution, you will have access to a central source of building data that can be accessed remotely by any authorised person. We use a range of scanning technologies to create a virtual representation of your facility. We then combine this with existing facility data, including environment, health, and safety (EHS) information, to give you and your teams instant access to:
- 3D models
- 3D point clouds/laser scanning data
- 360° HD photo sets
- 2D drawings
- GPR/utility survey data
- Topographical survey data
- Drone survey data
- Specification documents
- EHS documentation including safety demonstrations, facility inductions, risk assessments, method statements, hazard identification checklists, etc.
How Asset Reality Capture Improves Health and Safety
With Asset Reality Capture, you can:
- Mitigate the risk of accidents to reduce overall accident rates.
- Improve awareness of (and compliance with) health and safety issues, policies, and procedures.
- Enhance compliance with health and safety laws and regulations.
There are two main ways that Asset Reality Capture helps deliver the above outcomes:
- The 3D virtual replica of your facility created by Asset Reality Capture significantly reduces the need for personnel to be physically present on site. This is because tasks from taking measurements to completing section walkthroughs can be completed remotely.
- You can use the 3D virtual replica of your facility for training (equipment training, staff inductions, H&S training, etc), monitoring (accessing maintenance logs, standard operating procedures, etc), and safety improvement (using the enhanced oversight of complete and accurate data to refine H&S procedures, policies, and training).
Asset Reality Capture Health and Safety Use Cases
Remote Training
Asset Reality Capture provides a virtual environment where personnel can be trained without being exposed to hazards. This can be safety-specific training, such as training on potential hazards or emergency procedures. It can also be training on topics that are not safety-specific but that benefit from the safe virtual environment that Asset Reality Capture offers.
The virtual environment enables trainees to walk through the facility using a computer, mobile device, or VR headset. This can, for example, increase familiarity with the environment, particularly high-risk areas, before going on-site. It also enables safe training on any feature or component.
Crucially, the training is immersive as the virtual environment is a realistic simulation of the facility.
Maintenance Task Monitoring
With Asset Reality Capture, the oversight of maintenance becomes more efficient as logs, reports, and procedures can all be accessed from the platform remotely from any location. This eliminates the need for site visits, reducing risk exposure for maintenance teams. On-site maintenance teams can also access essential information, from historical data to H&S documentation to maintenance procedures and risk assessments.
Compliance Management
Health and safety documentation such as risk assessments, method statements, and hazard identification checklists can be incorporated into the digital replica of your facility created by Asset Reality Capture. This enables remote yet accurate and robust management of safety standard compliance.
It also makes compliance management more efficient as it facilitates the targeting of specific discrepancies for safety compliance improvement rather than taking a blanket approach.
Hazard Identification and Prevention
You can also use the 3D virtual replica of your facility to identify actual and potential hazards. For example, conducting virtual walkthroughs of the facility, reviewing features not visible to the naked eye when in person (such as components underground or behind walls), and reviewing photos of equipment, structures, and safety-specific elements from signage to barriers to operational flow. This allows for proactive adjustments and other measures to mitigate risks.
Real-Time Monitoring and Alerts
Our Asset Reality Capture solution can be taken a step further with the integration into the virtual replica of real-time data from the facility. Sensors, equipment, edge devices, cameras, and more can be integrated with the platform to enable continuous monitoring of environmental conditions, equipment performance, and worker activities. This facilitates timely interventions and immediate detection of potential safety breaches.
Health and Safety Return on Investment
As mentioned, Asset Reality Capture delivers a range of operational and project-related benefits in building maintenance, manufacturing, and industry. That said, the health and safety improvements alone deliver a return on investment. To learn more about Asset Reality Capture and how it can be utilised in your facility, please get in touch with us today.
