Building is choosing up at a fast clip. We see building jobs have elevated in 184 metro areas between April 2024 and April 2025. As these initiatives choose up pace, we should contemplate how we create a tradition of security across the jobsite.
That is one thing we’ve written about a variety of instances. And I’ve talked about this very material numerous instances on my radio program, The Peggy Smedley Present. PPE (private protecting tools) resembling laborious hats have solely develop into necessary on jobsites within the final half a century or so. If we observe the numbers, then we additionally know security has improved since that point. Employee deaths in America are down from about 38 employee deaths a day in 1970 to sadly 15 a day in 2019. Whereas it’s not essentially a direct correlation to PPE, it’s actually an attention-grabbing development to proceed to control.
Whereas we’ve stated time and time once more that security begins with firm on the prime and thru the tradition of the corporate, the expertise additionally continues to advance in new and thrilling methods. Let’s take a look at this at the moment. Through the previous few years, we’ve seen new gear come to jobsites.
If we return to World of Concrete 2024, we noticed Delta Plus and Mips introduced the launch of the Delta Plus Americana Climbing Kind II Mips helmet, geared up with the Mips Elevate Core system. The expertise is built-in instantly into the helmet and it’s designed to assist redirect harmful rotational movement of sure angled impacts. Definitely, this is just one instance of development. And it’s having a huge effect on security consciousness.
Extra just lately, in Might of this 12 months, we see Securis has partnered with Twiceme Know-how. Securis plans to combine Twiceme’s sensible security expertise into its total product line of business head safety. This integration means security managers will be capable to enhance operational effectivity and heighten security protocols with Twiceme’s Security Administration Portal. Securis helmets with Twiceme can be obtainable beginning in July 2025.
The bottomline is smarter expertise on jobsites can enhance each day security administration procedures, whereas lowering incident administration time.
All of this has me fascinated with the historical past of laborious hats within the building business. Lengthy gone are the times of males hanging off the highest of the empire state constructing, nary a tough hat to be seen. However we aren’t fairly but on the days of widespread adoption of linked laborious hats, streaming knowledge about linked staff’ well being and extra. There’s nonetheless an extended technique to go earlier than this future imaginative and prescient is really a actuality on our jobsites.
So, what precisely is the maintain up then? Let’s look again to look ahead. Many people will keep in mind DAQRI, which was an AR (augmented actuality) firm that launched in 2010 with a giant imaginative and prescient: to supply an AR sensible helmet. The corporate folded lower than a decade later. The query turns into why?
Candidly, whereas the idea was nice, the product had excessive prices, technical challenges, and wasn’t capable of pivot when wanted. Additionally, if I’m being sincere, once I chatted with the oldsters and tried the product myself, there wasn’t actually a terrific concentrate on security. Being a Monday Morning quarterback I’d say too maybe an excessive amount of focus was placed on the expertise for the sake of expertise. It didn’t serve a distinct segment want in building—and the worth was actually too excessive for the business it was making an attempt to serve. However let’s be very clear, the thought was good and opened the door for others to consider the way forward for security. The truth is, I’d go so far as to say, it opened the door for different tech corporations to rethink security and even work out the correct pricing recognizing what the business was keen to shell out in the case of defending staff.

Now, we’re seeing new entrants with a really particular focus and intent to enhance security. Extra “sensible” laborious hats proceed to come back to market with a sole function: to enhance security. Time will inform how widespread adoption turns into within the building business.
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