FCLabs - Using wearable technology to improve awareness and take-up of OHS

FCLabs是一家可穿戴的神经科技公司，开发员工福祉解决方案(CoreTech)，跟踪并预测认知表现和人为错误风险的波动，以CoreScore的形式提供简单、可操作的见解。CoreTech就像是大脑的Fitbit。我们的可穿戴设备测量大脑前额叶皮质区域的血流量和氧合/去氧(血液动力学反应)，然后我们的算法将其与心率、心率变异性和运动数据结合起来，创建我们所称的“CoreScore”。您的CoreScore既是认知表现波动的指标，也是潜在潜在原因的早期预警，其中一些是当今最紧迫的OH问题--精神和身体疲劳、睡眠不足、压力和焦虑、药物和酒精使用、脱水、营养、血糖水平(糖尿病)、冷/热应激、无聊、分心、疾病和糟糕的空气质量/有毒气体。我们不试图自动诊断潜在原因(到目前为止；它在我们的路线图上)，但为个人和/或主管提供关于风险波动的可量化、简单、可操作的见解。这种意识支持对适当行动、干预或缓解的决策，并鼓励长期的行为改变。CoreTech的目标受众是高风险行业的大型组织；主要是建筑、工程和石油天然气。在开发CoreTech时，我们已经发现，仅从心率、心率变异性和运动就可以得出CoreScore。它在跟踪和预测认知表现方面不如使用CoreTech设备准确，但我们相信它仍然提供了一个有价值的错误风险和潜在潜在原因的指标。这使我们能够使用智能手表或活动跟踪器作为数据来源，许多员工已经拥有并习惯于佩戴这些数据来源。我们相信，这是为个体户、微型和中小型企业开发一种简单、可获得、低成本的新产品的机会，在这种情况下，向个人以及(在适当情况下)向主管、雇主或职业安全与健康服务提供者提供可操作的数据将：*促使人们意识到潜在问题/自我意识*鼓励行为改变和支持自我管理，减少对职业安全与健康干预的需要；*使高效率和有效的标志显示适当的支持；*提高对这种支持的接受程度；*让雇主和职业安全健康服务提供者找出需要的地方，改善服务的针对性和使用率，并衡量影响。这项计划涉及为个别用户开发和试验概念验证移动应用程序，评估解决方案的可行性。

FCLabs are a wearable neurotech company, developing a worker wellbeing solution (CoreTech), which tracks and predicts fluctuations in cognitive performance and risk of human error, delivering simple, actionable insights in the form of a CoreScore. CoreTech is like a Fitbit for the brain. Our wearable device measures blood flow and oxygenation/deoxygenation (haemodynamic response) in the pre-frontal cortex area of the brain, which our algorithms then combine with heart rate, heart rate variability and motion data to create what we call a 'CoreScore'.Your CoreScore is an indicator of both fluctuating cognitive performance and an early warning of potential underlying causes, some of which are amongst the most pressing OH concerns today - mental & physical fatigue, lack of sleep, stress & anxiety, drug & alcohol use, dehydration, nutrition, blood sugar levels (diabetes), cold/heat stress, boredom, distraction, illness and poor air quality/toxic gases.We don't attempt to automatically diagnose underlying causes (yet; it is on our roadmap), but provide quantifiable, simple, actionable insights into fluctuations in risk to the individual and/or a supervisor. This awareness supports decisions on appropriate action, intervention or mitigation and encourages long-term behavioural change.Our target audience with CoreTech are large organisations in high-risk sectors; primarily construction, engineering and oil & gas.In developing CoreTech we have identified that it is possible to derive a CoreScore from heart rate, heart rate variability and motion alone. It's not as accurate at tracking and predicting cognitive performance as using the CoreTech device, but we believe still provides a valuable indicator of both risk of error and the potential underlying causes. This gives us the ability to use a smartwatch or activity tracker as the source of data, which many workers already have and are used to wearing. We believe this presents an opportunity to develop a simple, accessible, low-cost new product for self-employed, micro and small-medium enterprises, where actionable data delivered to the individual and (where appropriate) to a supervisor, employer or OHS provider will:* prompt awareness/self-awareness of potential issues * encouraging behavioural change and supporting self-management, reducing the need for OHS intervention; * enabling efficient & effective signposting to appropriate support; * improving uptake of that support;* allow employers and OHS providers to identify areas of need, improve targeting and take-up of services and measure impact.This project involves the development and trial of a proof of concept mobile app for individual users, assessing the feasibility of the solution.