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Safety Innovation Challenge

Every year, the NSC Safety Technology Pavilion presents a Safety Innovation Challenge showcasing technologies addressing a top risk facing workers today. Safety Innovation Challenge attendees:

● Learn about a pervasive safety issue
● Engage with technology solutions available to solve the risk

● See how to get their company ready to adopt technology
● Learn how to pilot a technology solution


The Safety Innovation Challenge identifies safety and health concerns, challenging organizations and emerging technology providers to identify solutions. This year’s 10 finalists at the 2026 NSC Safety Summit in Baltimore were chosen to highlight emerging technologies that measure, detect or predict fatigue.

MākuSafe Named 2026 Work to Zero Safety Innovation Challenge Winner

This year's finalists included:

Design Interactive: Greenlight is a mobile-based fatigue monitoring system integrating wearable and smartphone data to support safer performance in high-risk environments

electrocore, Inc.: TAC-STIM is a handheld device that stimulates the vagus nerve to reduce fatigue and improve attention and decision making

Impairment Science Inc.: DRUID is a mobile app using neuroscience-based tests to assess cognitive and motor impairment for fit-for-duty screening

Innsightful, Inc.: A wearable-enabled platform that continuously tracks physiological indicators to quantify workplace exhaustion and deliver real-time interventions

MakuSafe Wearable TechA wearable and analytics platform that detects and predicts fatigue-related strain through motion sensing and environmental monitoring

Predictive Safety SRP, Inc.: AlertMeter and AlertMeter FRMS assess worker alertness and provide predictive fatigue risk management tools

Pulsar Informatics: Fatigue Meter is a predictive analytics platform originally developed from NASA technology that integrates wearable data, sleep tracking and alertness assessments

SmartTec Inc.: Okaya is an AI-driven platform that extracts digital biomarkers from brief video check-ins to detect fatigue in real time

MākuSafe was named 2026 Work to Zero Safety Innovation Challenge Winner.

SOBEREYE Inc.: OPTOVERA is a smartphone-based assessment that measures how eyes respond to light to help determine fitness for duty 

Vocadian: A predictive voice AI solution that analyzes voice biomarkers and circadian science to forecast fatigue risk in safety-critical roles

2025 Safety Innovation Challenge Finalists

2024 Safety Innovation Challenge Finalists

Safety Technology Pavilion

Launched in 2021, the goal of the Safety Technology Pavilion is to better connect industry professionals with safety technology solutions to provide an immersive, interactive, and educational experience. NSC exhibits the Safety Technology Pavilion at two landmark events, the NSC Safety Congress & Expo and Future of EHS

Key Results from the 2024 Future of EHS

  • 97% of event attendees agreed the Safety Tech Pavilion added value to their experience
  • 96% of attendees agreed the interactive tech demonstrations increased their understanding of safety technology solutions

Key Results from the 2023 Future of EHS

  • 93% of event attendees agreed the Safety Technology Pavilion added value to their experience
  • 89% of attendees agreed the interactive tech demonstrations increased their understanding of safety technology solutions

NSC Safety Congress & Expo Pavilion Exhibitors

Future of EHS 2024

Nine technology vendors were selected to participate in the 2024 Future of EHS event in Louisville, Kentucky:

3motionAI
Proprietary 3DNeuroNet Engine seamlessly integrates into 3motionAI partners' products and services, granting them access to data insights previously obtainable only through expensive motion capture labs and complex wearable suits and sensors.

Anvl
Replace failing “honor-systems,” institutional knowledge, and inactionable paper and digital forms with Anvl. Customers gain real-time visibility into the work and workforce via mobile app that pushes instructional content and pulls data from the frontline, allowing management to discover trends and take corrective actions.

Bardavon
Bardavon’s wearable sensors capture movement data to offer real-time alerts to workers, revealing risks caused by high-load movements and poor ergonomics. Safety pros leverage the data for job task analysis, which also informs them when personalized modification training and human intervention is relevant to prevent injuries.

Examinetics
Salux is the only hearing testing and training solution designed expressly by a hearing conservation company for safety managers and occupational nurses to meet regulatory compliance needs. Examinetics has solved the pain points of occupational hearing testing by offering a convenient, seamless and complete hearing testing technology.

Intenseye
Intenseye uses existing facilities' cameras to capture safety risks and provide real-time notifications, risk and trend reports, visualizations and mitigation strategies to modernize safety management. Intenseye AI identifies and analyzes more than 50 EHS use cases with high accuracy rates and processes over 22 billion images daily, driving real ROI for enterprises worldwide.

Makusafe
The MākuSafe wearable gathers real-time data to improve worker health, safety and productivity, including industrial hygiene and environmental concerns, slips, trips and falls, strain and exertion, ergonomic risk, and location and proximity. This provides a more complete picture of workplace risk and trends, and integrates the worker into connected advanced manufacturing environments. Push-to-talk capability improves communication, learning and HOP efforts by enabling real-time communication from the front lines.

Santoku
RiMM (Risk Intervention with Multisensory Models) is a multisensory training simulator designed to help organizations eliminate workplace accidents and disasters. The simulator immerses employees in lifelike scenarios to develop and practice life-saving safety skills.

Tumeke
TuMeke automates ergonomic risk assessments with computer vision and helps industrial teams drive organizational improvements. The software



identifies movement patterns that risk a future injury and provides guidance on how to correct.

Vitrue Health
Vitrue Health makes technology to eliminate MSDs and musculoskeletal pain in the workplace. Inspired by elite sports, its online platform, VIDA, uses AI to combine ergonomics, behavior, psychology and personal factors like hobbies and preexisting conditions to create personalized, holistic approaches to eliminate pain.

Future of EHS 2023

Safety progress requires equal parts innovation and collaboration, and by creating new channels for leading-edge solutions to reach employers, we stand better positioned to create safer outcomes for workers worldwide. This is a defining feature of the Safety Innovation Challenge.
Sarah Ischer

Senior Program Manager, MSD Solutions Lab, and EHS Manager at NSC


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