Approach to the Assessment and Control of Risk to the Health of Oil Company Employees On the Basis of Information Obtained From Portable Staff Devices

Abstract

It is proposed that decision-making issues in the HSE management system should be resolved taking into account factors that are new, such as employees' health and their level of stress, thereby significantly improving the quality of the decisions made by management. A new approach to assessing and monitoring occupational health risks for employees has been developed using information obtained from wearable personal devices (WPD's) so that employees' medical health characteristics can be used in the HSE management system. Technology involving the remote, continuous monitoring of employees' health using WPD's enables information to be acquired in a mode close to real-time mode. Incorporating supplementary, up-to-date information concerning employees' health, and level of stress, into the process of preparing and making decisions has a more significant impact when compared to traditional approaches based on a system of scheduled medical check-ups.