R-Link - a multi function proximity warning system
With over 20 years’ experience in preventing workplace health and safety issues, Reactec introduce R-Link, our third generation workplace wearable with expanded functionality. Our new R-Link smart watch provides enhanced capability from our original HAVS monitoring wearable, HAVWEAR, to protect your workforce from multiple industrial risks on a single device.
Here we will focus on R-Link as a proximity warning systems but visit here to find what else we can do, or contact a member of the team: info@reactec.com
The R-Link eco-system and cloud-based analytics are easy to deploy, and simple to use. With advanced technology, R-Link allows you to alert workers to dangerous proximity to hazards while the Reactec Analytics gives you unprecedented insight into employee behaviour and near miss trends to design safer work environments.
R-Link proximity warning in action
In this video, we demonstrate how R-Link's proximity detection capability can keep workers safe from straying dangerously close to moving vehicles or active equipment using the latest ultrawide band technology for fast and accurate detection. The video also demonstrates how employers can use the Reactec Analytics to provide intelligent insight into the who, where and how often near-misses occur.
Book a trial
For more information on how our proximity warning systems work or to book a trial, get in touch with a member of the team:The R-Link Ecosystem
R-Link Driver Watch
Assign a watch with “driver” credentials to allow a driver to be alerted to pedestrians but silence their own vehicles beacons
Proximity warnings
R-Link can help keep workers safe from straying too close to vehicles or equipment. Using the latest ultrawide band technology (UWB) for fast and accurate detection, alerts workers to impending dangers.
Alerts and insights
Employee alerts alone is not enough. Reactec Analytics provide intelligent insights on the who, where and how often near-misses occur allowing you to prevent future problems.
Flexible safe zones
Use simple low cost RFID tags to mark areas where employees can operate safely close to vehicles such as barriered walkways. By signing into a safe zone, alerts to the user are silenced and the data recorded as time within safe areas.
Protect drivers
Drivers who move around vehicles need protected when out of their vehicles. Assign a watch with “driver” credentials to allow a driver to be alerted to other vehicles but silence his own vehicles beacons. Also choose whether he is alerted when pedestrians approach his vehicle.
Authorised close working
Allow drivers to give selective permission to approach his vehicle. A digital thumbs acknowledged instantly. Just as quickly revoke permissions or silence all alarms when the vehicles is put in a safe state.
Live exclusion zone changes
Give specific beacon admin credentials to instantly change the exclusion range of any beacon actively deployed in the field. The responsible person follows safe systems of work before pairing to the beacon and amending it’s range.
Authorised Close Working
R-Link allows drivers to give selective permission for pedestrians to approach their vehicle during authorised work
Ferrovial Construction adopted R-Link's proximity warning system to improve the safety of employees working close to moving vehicles at Heathrow Airport. Read our case study to learn more:
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Ferrovial Construction
“Ferrovial’s commitment to the digitalisation and virtualisation of its infrastructure is delivered via its open innovation strategy. The health and safety of its people, stakeholders and end users is at the core of these developments. Our deployment of R-Link for proximity detection will bolster our safety procedures and will reduce our risk of incident and accidents”.
Operations Manager
SIG plc
“We performed a trial of Reactec’s new proximity warning system, R-Link, to further enhance the safety of our operations at an insulation manufacturing facility managed by Mayplas in the UK. In one scenario, R-Link proximity warnings were switched-off allowing forklift drivers and pedestrian workers to operate as normal. In a second scenario, we switched on R-Link’s proximity alerts and both forklift drivers and pedestrian workers were instructed to respond to proximity warnings by moving safely away from the operating hazard. Data on near-miss occurrences were recorded for both scenarios in Reactec’s analytics software. Comparing the two scenarios, we found a 54% reduction in incursions from the team that responded to R-Link’s proximity alerts, which meant that near-miss occurrences had reduced by half for teams using the technology.”
Just some of the industries we serve
Machinery
The R-Link proximity warning system can be installed onto a wide range of different machine types and manufacturers. Here are just some examples:
How it Works
R-Link is a holistic eco-system to link you to your employees, dependent only on an internet connection through a public mobile phone network or local wi-fi.
Assign an R-Link watch at the start of the working day. Your employee or visitor’s credentials, as entered in the Reactec Analytics software, will then control what type of protection they receive throughout the day.
Use R-Link beacons to create a no-go zone around dangerous plant.
A single R-Link gateway at the watch charging areas, automatically and safely transmits data to the powerful cloud-based Reactec Analytics software under GDPR compliance.
The Reactec Analytics turns the R-Link data on risk levels, near misses and employee activity into intelligence to create a safer, more sustainable work environment.
Get in touch
For more information on how our proximity warning systems can create safer work environments contact Reactec today.