Soter Analytics helps UK’s largest building merchant to reduce manual handling injuries by 55%
Travis Perkins
Case Study
General information
The solution provides a shift in manual handling behavioural change by transferring the responsibility to the individuals. Real-time feedback, autonomous learning and self-tracking elicits the increase in awareness required for self-adjustment.
Ergonomist at Soter Analytics
"The Health and Safety culture at Travis Perkins goes over and above and is one of the best I have been fortunate enough to be part of. They have an incredible reporting culture and employees look out for each other"
Head of Health, Safety and Environment at Travis Perkins
“Using innovative ideas is what we strive to do. Adopting the SoterCoach solution to solve one of the challenges we have within the business and employing this device to help eliminate, reduce and also teach people the right way of doing manual handling has been the perfect marriage”
The first longitudinal outcome data of impact of SoterCoach showed a 55% drop in manual handling injuries in 2019
Immediate vibration and audible feedback from the device when hazardous ergonomic movements were made, coupled with in-app personalised data tracking and 3-minute microlearning tutorials, created a heightened awareness of the movements made for every worker and effectively coached them to reduce the quantity they made, reducing their long-term injury risk. tutorials, created a heightened awareness of the movements made for every worker and effectively coached them to reduce the quantity they made, reducing their long-term injury risk.
Nsights were made available to management via a web-based dashboard and used for debriefing sessions following the program, encouraging workers to share their experiences and recommendations of alterations to their work, aiding in the large reduction of hazardous movements resulting in a 55% drop in manual handling injuries.
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Head of Health, Safety and Environment at Travis Perkins
“We found the set up really easy, it was pretty much step 1, 2, 3 and the colleagues easily linked the devices to their mobile phones. Tracking their own data created a really positive engagement and during the debriefing sessions the colleagues continually wanted to know more about their results and how they could do things differently”
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