human & emotional cost
of workplace fatigue related
accidents is too high.
We reduce this cost by
empowering people & the
companies they work for with
proven technology to measure &
manage fatigue in the workplace -
increasing workforce productivity,
mitigating risk & saving lives.
OPTALERT is the only real-time
safety system in the world that
detects the early onset of
drowsiness during a journey by
accurately measuring a person's
level of ALERTNESS - quantifying
to both driver & company their
FATIGUE RISK PROFILE.
Fatigue Risk Profiler
OPTALERT’s new technology set to help companies change their safety profiles. BHP Billiton will be amongst the first companies in the world to implement OPTALERT’s new Fatigue Risk Profiling (FRP) technology adding heightened levels of safety risk management at its Minera Escondida copper mine in Chile. The easy to understand FRP graphic user interface enables managers and control room operators to instantly identify, track and quickly access vital information about one or more drivers whenever an in-cab medium or high risk drowsiness alarm is triggered. OPTALERT-FRP leverages a company’s existing investment in other fatigue monitoring technologies offered by OPTALERT such as the OPTALERT-Driver ...
Dampier Bunbury Pipeline Transmission
A serious accident on an access road for a major gas pipeline has seen OPTALERT come to the rescue to help with safety. As the Asset Owner, Operator and Maintainer for the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline in Western Australia, DBP oversees a pipeline that – at nearly 1600kms – is longer than the entire state of California. Following a serious accident on an access road to the pipeline in November 2007, a series of investigations was unable to conclude the specific cause. Manager of Health, Safety and Environment at DBP, Alyson Vinciguerra was involved in the company’s decision to implement OPTALERT ...
More Than Meets the Eye
For OPTALERT Implementation Specialist, Warren Lewis, the last four years have been about far more than just an enjoyable job. Joining OPTALERT just a month or so before the product launch, Warren Lewis knew he was involved with something that had a lot of potential. But now, over four years later, the magnitude of change that the technology can make seems to know no bounds, as it seems does the scale of the mines that are implementing it. Warren has recently returned from the BHP Billiton’s Minera Escondida mine in Chile, the largest copper mine in the world, where he and his team ...
Canadian OPTALERT Distributor
Establishing a successful international distribution network has seen OPTALERT partner with Canadian OH&S firm, Integrated Risk Management Inc. With the recent appointment of Integrated Risk Management as the Canadian distributor of OPTALERT, the company is working to develop a model that will see local knowledge and clever partnering play an important part in introducing the technology to new international markets. And according to OPTALERT Chief Executive Officer, John Prendergast, there could be few better people to work with at this stage than Rich Robillard and his team at Integrated Risk Management - a company that specialises in offering a suite of safety ...
Restoring Sight One Eye at a Time
OPTALERT signs up to support the work of the Fred Hollows Foundation. Part of OPTALERT’s business vision is to play a role in supporting like-minded community and environment organisations. The latest community organisation the OPTALERT team have decided to support is The Fred Hollows Foundation, inspired by the work of the late Professor Fred Hollows, whose vision was for a world where no one is needlessly blind. Working to continue Fred's vision, The Fred Hollows Foundation in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, have come together to form a global network to increase their collective impact in eradicating avoidable blindness around the ...
