Health-shirt

Y. T. Zhang, C. C. Y. Poon, C. H. Chan, M. W. W. Tsang, and K. F. Wu, A health-shirt using e-textile materials for the continuous and cuffless monitoring of arterial blood pressure, in Proceedings of the 3rd lEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors, USA., pp. 86-89, 2006. 

Figure 48.2 An illustration of the Wearable Intelligent Sensors and Systems for e-Health (WISSH) with the h-Shirt[16]. (Artwork courtesy of Ms. Joey K.Y. Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)...

Y.-D. Leea, W.-Y. Chungb, Wireless sensor network based wearable smart shirt for ubiquitous health and activity monitoring. Sens. Actuators B Chem. 140 (2) (2009) 390—395. 

A lot of successful safety and health systems use tokens of appreciation, which are given out to recognize safe acts and safe conditions. Pens, T-shirts, safety wallets, and other small items may have little monetary value, but have great motivational value. 

Written materials are only useful for a short time period. It is a good idea to use them sparingly, maybe once a month as a stuffer in the payroll envelope or during a safety talk. If you post it on the bulletin board, it will be read within a week. You should then take it down since it has probably been read by all of those who will take the time to read it. At times, you may develop plasticized cards that contain new rules, inspection directions, operator guidelines, or changes in procedures, which you cannot expect a worker to memorize. These cards should fit into a shirt pocket and can act as reminders to workers if they have questions when no one is around. At times I reconunend that safety operating procedures be plasticized and placed on machinery or equipment that is complicated to operate or not operated frequently. If you use written materials, test them out on the audience before mass distribution. Written materials have their place in fostering workplace safety and health communications. 

Safety is a priority." This is probably the most common safety slogan foimd in workplaces and voiced by safety leaders. I have seen signs, pens, buttons, hats, T-shirts, and note pads with this message. No wonder safety and health professionals are surprised when I say that safety should not be a priority. To justify my case, 1 offer the following explanation. 

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