The R-Link watch has been developed to help prevent vibration-related musculoskeletal disorders
With over 20 years of experience in preventing workplace health and safety risks, Reactec has developed R-Link; a new generation of robust wearable technology with powerful cloud-based data analytics. The R-Link smart watch is a powerful tool to prevent irreversible musculoskeletal disorders caused by exposing the hand and arm system to vibration.
R-Link informs the wearer of their exposure to vibration in real-time when they are operating hand-held power tools. Sound and vibration alerts notify the worker when their personalised exposure thresholds are close to being exceeded.
R-Link features ground-breaking technology to simultaneously assess exposure to risk using; pre-defined tool vibration magnitude, using tool tags, and vibration magnitude sensed by the wearer at the wrist.
Either of these methods can be used to display vibration-related risk exposure points and both types of data are stored in the cloud-based Reactec Analytics to provide employers with actionable data insight.
The technology can help employers to monitor their worker's daily levels of vibration exposure to prevent vascular, neurological or musculoskeletal damage, and identify preventative control measures through understanding a worker's misuse of tools, or poorly performing tools.
Features and Benefits
| Benefits | Features |
| Wrist-mounted device that monitors real-time tool vibration levels and tool-use time | Real-time calculation and display of exposure levels on watch screen |
| Operator alerted when personal configurable exposure levels are exceeded | RFID tool tags allow the source of vibration (the tool) to be identified and vibration levels monitored |
| Better assess operator technique and tool condition | Exposure data automatically transmitted online to cloud-based Analytics for review |
| Develop exposure trends by worker or tool | Automatic manager KPI reports from the Reactec Analytics and API integration with centralised reporting systems |
Glowing reviews
Mark Nixon, H&S Manager
Don-Bur
"We at Don-Bur have been using R-link for over six months as a part of our vibration risk management programme. The sensed vibration equipment allows us to monitor individual exposure to our employees and also measure vibration output of individual tools with the tool tag system - both important factors in the management of vibration in the workplace".
Supervisor
Tilbury Douglas
“While we were using R-Link, I found the system very easy to use, the information received indicated the need to alter working methods & choice of tools to be used, it also highlighted that the tools we thought would be the highest values were not because of the use of clamps".
Bradley Allen, HSQE Manager
Mitchellson
“One such example was by having access to more accurate exposure data, including real-time vibration magnitudes, we could assess which tools were best for particular applications. We consider Hilti breakers to be one of the best available and realised through the Reactec data we could replace a Hilti breaker TE1000, used for a wide range of applications for a larger TE2000. Even though it was more expensive it helped complete work tasks quicker and exposed the operator to less exposure during use so it was a win-win for project efficiency and worker health”.
Garreth Kelly, Highways Manager Countywide Projects
Lancashire County Council
“Reactec has taken onboard customer feedback about HAVWEAR when developing the R-Link smart watch. I know the watch looks much slicker and displays more tooling information, but connecting gateways and transmitting data has also been a big improvement”.
Andy Birchall, Health & Safety Advisor
Magenta Living
“Reactec’s HAV monitoring technology has created a cultural-shift within our company.” said Andy, “and tools like R-Link have become the best defence in our health and safety armoury for managing exposure to vibration at work”.
Jenny Gullick, H&S Advisor
Citizen Housing
"Citizen have been using the Reactec R-Link equipment for around 12 months within our Maintenance Operations Team, the sensed vibration equipment allows us to monitor vibration exposure to our employees. With the use of the tool tags, it helps us to easily identify high risk equipment in the workplace and implement control measures to prevent injuries. The analytics system is easy to use and provides understandable reports and day to day management of hand-arm vibration."
Watch our R-Link how to video
Watch our short video which demonstrates how the R-Link smart watch can monitor exposure to vibration and help to prevent upper-limb musculoskeletal disorders for workers who regularly operate hand-held power tools.
R-Link Capability Flyer
Download the R-Link flyer to learn more about our approach to preventing upper-limb MSDs caused by exposure to vibration at workEcosystem
Reactec’s expanded ecosystem allows employer’s to create a real-world risk profile of an employees’ exposure to vibration using the advanced R-Link watch and cloud-based Reactec Analytics.
The R-Link smart watch gathers real-time exposure to vibration data by recording a precision measurement of sensed vibration at the wrist during tool use.
Data is automatically, and securely transmitted, to the cloud-based Reactec Analytics software using Reactec's 2-bay Gateway or 10-bay docking station.
The vibration data is stored in the Reactec Analytics and presented as intuitive dashboards and reports for supervisors to monitor the exposure levels for individual workers who are using specific tools or equipment over the course of a shift.
Supervisors can receive daily email alerts identifying workers who are close to reaching their vibration magnitude thresholds and make timely interventions to ensure that they do not exceed the set exposure level.
R-Link Proximity Warning System
R-Link builds upon Reactec’s trusted vibration monitoring capability to offer expanded functionality which alerts the wearer when they are within dangerous proximity to moving vehicles, active machinery, or a restricted area in real-time.
Learn more about R-Link’s proximity warning capability and how we can engineer out workplace risk:
Proximity Warning CapabilityContact us
Discover what you can do with workplace wearables to better protect the health of your workforce long-term - talk to our workplace wearables experts today about R-Link.