Understand in more detail how your employees operate within the work environment and pinpoint factors that influence health and safety, such as situational awareness. By identifying the underlying causes of accidents and human errors, you can take steps to improve safety and risk assessment.
Reduce human error
Human error is a contributing factor in most workplace accidents, but by understanding how and why these errors occur, it’s possible to reduce or remove them. Eye tracking can uncover the underlying causes of mistakes such as lapses in concentration, hazards in the work environment, or cognitive overload. By being able to observe things from the perspective of workers, you can get a better understanding of how they operate within the work environment and identify circumstances that hinder safety.
Increase situational awareness
A lack of situational awareness is often the root cause of occupational accidents, not because staff lack the knowledge to be aware of the potential dangers, but because they are blind to them. Visual attention is a strong indicator of cognitive processes, so by observing it through eye tracking, you can understand what employees are paying attention to within the work environment. This information can be used to educate employees about hazard identification and what elements of their work or behavior they need to pay more attention to.
Better prepare the work environment
Advanced machinery and new equipment are rapidly changing the way factories, warehouses, and other industrial workplaces operate, which also impacts the amount of information and processes workers are expected to manage. By seeing the work environment through the eyes of employees, it’s possible to identify hinderances to performance and safety such as visual obstructions, poor instructions, inefficient positioning of equipment, and the absence of safety signage. This information can help you optimize workplace layout, documentation, and equipment.
Capture the visual behavior of a person performing a task in a natural setting.
Watch with gaze overlay to understand what happens while they’re performing the task.
Identify areas for improvement in the process, environment, or behavior of the person to improve future outcomes.
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“Tobii Pro Glasses, with its live view observation capabilities, can help to detect at-risk workers in real time in order to reduce the frequency and severity of occupational injuries at risky work sites across many industries.”
Behzad Esmaeili, PH.D., Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Situational awareness at construction work sites
Eye tracking technology was used by the researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to investigate the causes of human error on construction sites. The insights obtained will be used to improve the workers' hazard identification skills and to measure training effectiveness.
Human Performance
Every individual has a different approach to completing a task and these differences can produce different outcomes. By understanding the way workers engage with tasks and how they complete them you can identify methods of best practice and illustrate this to others in your team. Visual attention is strongly linked to cognitive function and by harnessing this insight you can improve the way your workforce operates.
Productivity and Quality
Consistency and efficiency are essential when it comes to productivity and quality assurance. Eye tracking allows you to see another layer of detail in the way your business operates, which helps you pinpoint ways that processes can be improved, errors reduced, and waste identified and removed. This information can also be used to create more effective onboarding material and improve quality and consistency across workplace operations.
Improve workplace safety with eye tracking
How do you prevent accidents in the workplace? What measures can be taken to understand risks and save lives? Identify risks in work environments and improve employees' situational awareness.
