Heat Stress Monitoring

Heat Stress Monitoring 

Many well respected institutions, including Indiana University Health, University of Michigan Health System, and Stanford University rely on Sonicu to provide robust continuous temperature monitoring for their most valuable assets 

These respected healthcare and research brands turn to Sonicu for four primary reasons: 

• Real-Time Monitoring: the sensors collect temperature data and transmit it wirelessly to SoniCloud - our cloud-based platform.
• Operational Efficiency: Virtually eliminate the need for tedious and costly manual logging 
• Compliance Automation: Respond to any regulatory audit or inspection in a few clicks with our reports section
• Asset Protection: Detects and responds to any temperature excursion that can threaten anything perishable: food, drugs, vaccines, research, etc. 

Our customers stay with us thanks to our American-based customer support that is never more than a phone call away. 

While our technology is intuitive and powerful, we know it’s only as strong as the people who stand behind it. 

If you care about receiving safe medicines from the pharmacist, safe vaccines from your doctor and safe food from your grocery, you care about temperature and conditions monitoring. 

We often think of temperature, room pressure, and other environmental monitoring systems as the means by which to protect assets such as medication, test samples, and perishable food. 

Yet we must not forget employers must not only consider how to keep equipment and supplies safe, but they must also think about how to keep their staff safe. 

To that end,Sonicu's heat stress monitoring systems are becoming an essential investment for organizations to maintain a safe working environment for their employees.  

A heat stress monitor is used to assess if a space has become too hazardous in its temperature and humidity for employees to safely begin or continue with their job duties. 

We have the technology and we have the guidelines from OSHA to make quick and easy decisions to protect the safety of workers, thus investing in a heat stress monitoring system would be wise for any employer seeking to better the environment of their workers and to remain in compliance with OSHA and the Department of Labor.

With heat stress, the body loses its ability to shed heat quickly enough to manage the heat the individual is absorbing from their continual exposure to heat in their external environment.  

There are a variety of heat stress-related illnesses and injuries. Below is a list of a few of the most common examples.

• Heat stroke
• Heat exhaustion
• Heat cramps
• Rhabdomyolysis
• Heat syncope
• Heat rash

The most serious of these is heat stroke, which can be fatal if the individual does not receive immediate medical attention. 

Our temperature monitoring system provides real-time alerts for facility conditions, ensuring prompt action from your staff and mitigating potential risks that can affect your staff.

One can possibly recover from heat exhaustion in a few hours or a few days, but one should not tempt fate with a heat stroke. Sonicu can help you with your heat related temperature monitoring. 

Any of these conditions can manifest themselves should an employee engage in strenuous physical activity or simply stand in a dangerously hot environment for too long. 

Some employers can avoid threats to heat stress altogether, but there are some industries where workers must venture out into heat-prone conditions to perform their jobs. 

In those cases, Sonicu's heat stress meters are used to determine the level of risk involved. 

Professionals from healthcare, life science, laboratory, and cold chain facility management turn to Sonicu to help them improve the way they do business. 

By installing a heat stress meter, both employees and employers place themselves in the best possible position to mitigate potentially dangerous situations. 

The good news is that our sensors are easy to install and configure and supported by live American-based phone support. Sonicu is an affordable, intuitive, and trusted temperature and environmental monitoring solution nationwide. 

You can learn more about how our software helps compliance professionals in these case studies:

Hancock Regional Hospital 

Problem: Pharmacy Suffered Too Much Humidity In New Wing, impacting Compounding Pharmacy

Solution: Affordable Humidity Monitoring that Delivered Powerful data to prompt contractors to fix improperly sized air handler 

Hendricks Hospital 

Problem: The dining department struck with regulatory violations 

Solution: Enterprise-wide monitoring that automates regulatory compliance across all departments 

Exide Technologies

Problem: Release of lead particles in battery projects 

Solution: Mobile, affordable air pressure monitoring solution 

Heat Stress Monitor

Our wireless remote heat stress monitoring systems can be installed for indoor locations like warehouses and distribution centers 

If a worker starts a job and then gets an alert signal, they can discontinue their tasks, take mitigation actions,  and wait for the hazardous conditions to pass.

Intrinsically Safe Heat Stress Monitor

When designers create equipment for environments that may encounter fire and extreme heat, they have two options to mitigate accidental ignition. 

One is to use explosion-proofing techniques, and the other is to make the equipment “intrinsically safe.”

But what is intrinsic safety? This is when electrical equipment is designed and built with the intention that it would be challenging, if not incapable, to ignite and catch fire. 

Obviously one cannot remove oxygen from the air, which can help a fire grow, but measures can be taken to ensure that the most nonflammable materials are used to create electronics that are the least likely to catch fire. 

Naturally, it would make sense that heat stress monitoring equipment devoted to mitigating threats of excessive heat should be intrinsically safe. An automated heat stress system is constantly exposed to hazardous environments. 

As such, it must have the capability to withstand extreme heat in the way that humans cannot without the fear that the monitor will burst into flames. 

In other words, an intrinsically safe heat stress monitor is one that can safely take a record of the environment’s temperature, humidity, and other climate conditions without the threat of causing a fire in such excessive heat.

Sonicu’s sensors, made in Greenfield, Indiana to the highest quality standards, can withstand any environment that you need monitored.

Thermal Environment Monitor

Thermal environment monitors are devoted to the measurement of heat. 

Therefore, they overlap quite a lot with heat stress monitoring equipment and other types of temperature monitoring devices. 

A business or organization may understand the need to use thermal environmental monitoring, but they still may struggle with how to use a thermal environment monitor.  

That is why many businesses turn to the wireless technology of Sonicu’s remoting heat stress monitoring system. 

With Sonicu, thermal monitor installation and operation is easy and the system has a user-friendly dashboard and interface to make thermal environment monitoring as easy and efficient as it can possibly be. 

Rather than constantly having to manually log data, a supervisor can place the settings wherever they want them and know that the system will alert them should there be any deviation from the desired temperature or other climate conditions. 

Heat Stress Measurement

Heat stress measurements can be taken in several ways. One way is via the heat index, a system that measures the “real feel” value by factoring in both temperature and humidity. 

Some individuals may be able to handle the heat if it is purely brought on by temperature but would not be able to withstand the same temperature in combination with a high percentage of humidity. 

You can learn more about how our software helps compliance professionals in these case studies:

Nomi Health 

Problem: Data loggers that were not on the cloud and cloud-based solution that only connected via wi-fi

Solution: Cloud-based solution with connectivity in wi-fi AND cellular for maximum flexibility and compliance readiness 

Boy Scouts 

Problem: The aging walk-in cooler with a faulty electrical system caused system failure and a loss of $5,000 in food 

Solution: Simple and affordable temperature monitoring solution that protects costly food and automates compliance. 

The heat index is meant to be placed in the shade and does not factor in the effects of wind, sunlight, radiant heat sources, or workload. 

By carefully reading the heat stress tracker manual, one can compare the temperature in relation to humidity to determine the heat index value. 

The National Weather Service has created a heat index chart with color-coded ranges depicting temperature and humidity combinations as caution, extreme caution, danger, and extreme danger. 

For example, a temperature of 88 degrees Fahrenheit with a humidity of 85% would result in a heat index value of 110, placing it in the orange “danger” area.

Sonicu's advanced temperature monitoring system can accurately calculate and alert you to critical heat index values, preventing severe risks.

“Sonicu has been a powerful tool to identify which units are behaving out of spec and get our team
to fix them before we have a serious issue.”
Tim Livesay, Director, Hancock Regional Hospital Pharmacy Director