Abu Dhabi: Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, has announced that it will continue its trial of Kinzen wearable technologies as part of its quest to help 350 employee volunteers overcome high temperatures and associated illnesses.
Heat-related diseases pose a danger to workers under the sun during the summer months of the UAE, as these diseases can be fatal if left untreated, and even prevention is possible. Because prevention is better than cure, EGA focuses every summer, For more than a decade, to eradicate such diseases.
Thanks to the company’s adoption of the latest Kinzen technologies, wearable devices provide the possibility of providing more protection for workers in the sun. Protection is achieved by detecting heat stress in the body even before the worker feels the early signs, and these wearable devices were used for the first time last summer in a trial involving 50 volunteers.
Abdel Nasser Bin Kalban, CEO of Emirates Global Aluminium, said: “Our innovative work methods have proven that heat-related illnesses are completely preventable, regardless of difficult industrial environments such as ours, and wearable technology provides the ability to protect people more, and I am looking forward to The results of the larger trial, which we are conducting this summer.
Kinzen technology monitors heart rate and temperature, as well as other vital body indicators, in real time and provides alerts of impending heat exhaustion, notifying both the wearer and the company’s safety team.
Despite the heat generated around the clock by industrial processes, as well as the processes associated with treating this heat, the company did not record any heat-related diseases in 2019 and 2022. In 2021, the company recorded two cases of heat-related diseases, which required treatment. He had a full recovery within hours.
