The RPAS-SSL project allows monitoring activity in particularly hazardous works
The Sando business group has celebrated this morning the World Day for Safety and Health at Work participating in the technical conference “Innovative technologies applied to ORP in Construction”, organised by the Department of Employment, Business and Trade in Malaga.
The company has taken advantage of this event to present the SSL-RPAS research project. A Sando initiative to control occupational risk prevention in particularly hazardous works with drones.
During his presentation, Federico Artola, director of Sando’s Joint Prevention Service, explained how thanks to this project it will be possible to monitor in real time and totally safely the implementation of particularly hazardous infrastructures: “It will allow monitoring works online thousands of kilometres away and without any professional putting him/herself at risk.”
The SSL-RPAS project exploits the possibilities provided by drones, which Sando has been working on for almost a decade, to develop a more comprehensive control of the risks: “The drone allows carrying on-board sensors that offer us information on physical or chemical contaminants that we cannot perceive any other way”.
Sando’s Joint Prevention Service began to study the opportunities of drones during the execution of the Caminito del Rey, a singular infrastructure which was made on vertical walls of over one hundred metres and in which health and safety management was more complex.
Following the presentation of the project, Juan Antonio Casanova, Sando´s Aeronautic Operations director, presented the technology that the SSL-RPAS will use. Several drones equipped with sensors and cameras have flown around inside the Malaga Occupational Risk Prevention conference hall, which have allowed directly seeing some of the options that the project will offer.
Together with this project, in the conference organised by the Department of Employment, Business and Trade in Malaga, Sando’s R&D&i director, Juan Antonio Báez, gave a talk on new technologies that are applicable to Occupational Risk Prevention: “Big Data is a technology directed at occupational health and safety that will allow us to predict accidents rather than prevent them”.
Carlos García, technical manager of Building and Civil Works of Corporación Technológica de Andalucía also took part in the conference, underlining aid to research and the results of R&D&i: “Using innovation in the company we can improve productivity by 50% or 60%”.
The General Secretary of Employment, Trade and Business, María del Carmen López also presented the main policies on Health and Safety of the Andalusia Regional Government and has stressed the need for companies to invest in research: “We must encourage innovation and put the new tools at the service of Occupational Risk Prevention”.
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