Wearable Devices Improve Occupational Health and Safety at Construction Sites 

Ensuring worker safety on large construction sites is complex. Teams are widely distributed, supervisors oversee many workers at once, and risks such as heat stress can develop before anyone notices. Traditional reporting methods rely heavily on manual communication — making early intervention difficult. 

GRIFFY Inc. develops digital solutions for the construction industry and wanted to provide customers with a scalable health and safety monitoring service. Together with Obayashi Corporation, they created GenVital, a worker wellness solution combining heart rate monitoring and environmental data to detect early signs of risk. 

To make the service practical across multiple construction sites, GRIFFY integrated the mSafety wearable platform. Using built-in LTE-M connectivity, workers’ health and location data can be transmitted directly to the cloud — removing the need for local gateways and simplifying deployment for every new customer site. 

“Maybe more importantly, GenVital is also a ‘tool that creates communication between workers.'”

 

With real-time alerts, fall detection, and direct messaging to the wearable device, supervisors can respond faster while workers receive immediate feedback about their condition. The result is not only improved monitoring — but a more proactive safety culture across construction projects. 

Why they chose mSafety

By embedding connected wearables into its offering, GRIFFY turned a traditional, site-bound system into a scalable service deployable across multiple customer locations. 

Key reasons GRIFFY selected the mSafety wearable platform include: 

- Remote safety and wellness monitoring across distributed teams 
- Real-time alerts and direct worker communication for faster interventions 
- Cloud-based data collection and analytics for actionable insights 
- Deployment without on-site infrastructure such as local gateways 
- Rapid rollout across multiple construction projects 

By leveraging mSafety, GRIFFY could focus on improving worker safety rather than managing connectivity or infrastructure — creating a proactive safety culture while scaling efficiently across sites.