Lakehead University researchers who are looking at reducing workplace injuries have been utilizing a fellow university’s mobile lab.
Kathryn Sinden, Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology at Lakehead University tells us they’ve taken the unit to mines to collect data like workers’ vital signs and other data.
“The big piece is being able to interview them, so sometimes our measures are more interview-based and this provides us with a space to do that. We also can put wearable technology on them in privacy in this lab.”
She goes on to say the information they are collecting will help them get a better understanding of how people’s bodies react to work.
“How over a long period of time, how is our body responding to those long periods of load, and then from that the whole idea is to understand the problem/the burden and then test that.”
Sinden adds it allows them to go to remote workplaces like mines and be on-site.
Laurentian University’s CROSH lab was recently displayed at LU.
