Apple Watch Series 5: Employee Health Benefits of New Apple Watch

The new Apple Watch Series 5 includes health features that can be beneficial for employees and their employers. The new features on the Series 5 can assist in increasing the health of many employees on their daily work routine and decrease the safety risks.

Construction workers, lone worker and employees that suffer with heart conditions, can all benefit from its new features. Given that noise levels can reach 120db (decibels) at construction sites, it is important for employers to monitor the ambient noise around to decide if workers require ear protection, which is liable under the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005.

The new Apple Watch has a Noise app which uses the a microphone to measure sound and detects noise levels that can be hazardous, this can be helpful for construction site employers, aircraft engineers and security guards working at loud venues such as concerts, as it will help them monitor sound and take appropriate precautions to avoid any damage.

Fall detection for lone workers

The Apple Watch Series 5 also conrains a fall detection feature. While wearing the watch, it can detect if someone has had a hard fall, and then it will sound an alarm and display an alert. If the person is unresponsive to the alerts, or if the watch does not detect any movements within a 30 second countdown, it will act by contacting emergency services and a pre-assigned emergency contact.

Recently, the watch detected that a mountain biker had a