Expo 2020 Dubai uses wellness wearables to improve workers’ safety

Expo 2020 Dubai uses wellness wearables to improve workers’ safety

As part of its Worker Wellness Programme, Expo 2020 Dubai is creating a strategic roadmap for future construction projects and mega-events to assume safety standards.

The first phase of the programme - a project to measure workers' health and well-being using wearable wellness technology - ran for 30 months from October 2017, using Whoop wearable wrist-strap wellness devices for continuous measuring of construction workers' well-being on the Expo 2020 site.

A total of 5,540 workers participated on a voluntary basis, with the project focusing on preventative health through monitoring and reporting, health treatment and health research.

The programme forms part of Expo 2020's wider approach to worker welfare and health and safety.

Rashid Mohammed, deputy chief operations officer, Expo 2020, said: "Given the number of workers on site, this programme is unique - we haven't come across any other project that tracks human physiology at this scale. The data gathered will form part of the legacy that Expo 2020 leaves the world, taking us one step closer to predictive models that can save lives.“

The Whoop devices collected data measurements winnowed into three categories: effort, sleep and recovery. Factors such as heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and sleep auto-detection were collated, with custom reports