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

FCLabs是一家可穿戴神经技术公司，开发员工健康解决方案（CoreTech），跟踪和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血流量和氧合/脱氧（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联合收割机结合，创建我们所谓的“核心分数”。您的核心分数是波动的认知表现和潜在原因的早期预警指标，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/热压力，无聊，分心，疾病和空气质量差/有毒气体。我们不试图自动诊断潜在原因（但它是在我们的路线图），但提供量化的，简单的，可操作的见解波动的风险，以个人和/或主管。这种意识支持采取适当的行动、干预或缓解措施，并鼓励长期的行为改变。我们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的过程中，我们已经确定，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指标，可以反映错误风险和潜在的根本原因。这使我们能够使用智能手表或活动跟踪器作为数据来源，许多工人已经拥有并习惯于佩戴。我们相信，这是一个机会，可以为自营职业者、微型和中小型企业开发一种简单、方便、低成本的新产品，（在适当的情况下）向主管、雇主或职业健康安全提供者提供的信息将：* 迅速意识到/自我意识到潜在的问题 * 鼓励行为改变和支持自我管理，减少对职业健康安全干预的需要; * 实现有效和高效的路标，以提供适当的支持;* 提高支持的利用率;* 让雇主和职业健康和安全提供者确定需要的领域，提高服务的针对性和利用率，并衡量影响。该项目涉及为个人用户开发和试用概念验证移动的应用程序，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.