Active Environmental Solutions (AES) has launched Reactec’s R-Link smart watch to improve occupational health and safety.

R-Link brings together a powerful combination of workplace wearable technology and cloud-based Reactec Analytics software to help organisations prevent risks across a range of sectors including construction, rail, ports and mining.

“At Reactec, we are focused on engineering out risk with a data-driven approach that gives organisations a holistic view of their workplace risk environment. Through our partnership with AES, we have launched R-Link, our third-generation workplace wearable technology,” Reactec chief executive officer Jacqui McLaughlin says.

“R-Link was launched in the UK during the summer of 2022. During that time, the wearable device has already helped employers to understand, monitor and mitigate exposure to vibration and the risk from dangerous proximity to moving vehicles in operating environments.

“We aim to emulate this success in Australia with AES’s strong local market knowledge and expertise in connected worker technology.”

Both AES and Reactec are pioneers in the development of connected worker technology, which is built upon using real-time monitoring solutions and risk data to help employers understand their operating environment and refine controls.

AES’s comprehensive range of safety sensing technologies for harsh operating environments uses on-person monitors and software solutions to measure air quality, noise, silica dust, heat, radiation, light and exposure to vibration.