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Beyond 2020: Innovating towards a connected safety future

Open-access content Tuesday 15th December 2020
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IOSH Intelex webinar

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CPD2020 has been an unprecedented year, fraught with new challenges, new learnings, and new opportunities from across the health and safety sector. As we close out the year, we have an opportunity to reflect on not only the changes that have occurred because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also about the more permanent shifts that are occurring and the effects on HSE management approaches. As a result of the accelerated need for greater efficiency and a heightened focus on risk management and business continuity, connected technologies will assume an even larger role transforming the management of health and safety in the year to come and beyond.

This webinar with Duncan Spencer, IOSH's head of advice and practice, and Aaron Davis from Intelex Technologies ULC looks at how continued advancements in connected safety and connected worker technologies are changing how we manage facets of our HSE management programmes, including environmental hazard monitoring, control of work and lone worker safety. 

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