Exoskeleton Musculoskeletal injuries caused take – provided that they still by overhead construction take the required rest breaks for Addressing work have a profound effect physical and mental wellbeing. Productivity on the construction industry’s businesses and employees. Studies have shown and Increased Companies lose productivity effectiveness of the exoskeleton Demand due to musculoskeletal injuries in terms of reducing stress on a and an employee’s wellbeing is worker’s muscles and joints, to at a risk if they suffer any kind improve the health of a worker of injury. and minimize days lost through poor health.4 Exoskeletons are designed to enhance productivity by By being able to retain skilled reducing stress on the body, workers for longer periods of causing less pain and fatigue time due to fewer employee due to a reduced load on sick days, construction muscles and joints. This reduced companies can utilize stress and increased comfort exoskeletons to improve when working, enables users to operations twofold by improving improve their health and reduce employee wellbeing and the number of sick days they increasing on-site productivity. 498,000 8.9million workers reported to be million working days were suffering from work-related lost due to work-related musculoskeletal injuries in 41% musculoskeletal injuries 2018/19 with... of these injuries relating to in 2019/20.5 5 upper limbs and neck. Final thoughts... Human Augmentation technol- The time to act against ogy has the ability to enhance musculoskeletal injuries the lives – and work – of peo- and support construction ple around the globe. workers is now. Today’s construction com- REFERENCES panies must be aware of the 1. What is Human Augmentation? https://www.freshconsulting.com/insights/blog/what-is-human-augmentation/ issues caused by musculo- 2. Opinium Research. (2020, September). The Future of Human Augmentation 2020. Kaspersky. https://www.kaspersky.com 3. Global Human Augmentation Industry skeletal injuries – from health https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-human-augmentation- and safety issues that affect industry-301047387.html 4. Loughborough University (as cited in The Business MRI Report Hilti) employee wellbeing – through https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/news/musculoskeletal-injuries-cost- industry-646m-peryear-30-05-2019 to productivity issues. 5. HSE, Health and Safety at Work: Summary Statistics for Great Britain, 2019 HSE, Work related musculoskeletal disorder statistics (WRMSDs) in Great Britain, 2020 To learn about Hilti’s wearable exoskeleton for construction, please visit: 4 / HUMAN AUGMENTATION Hilti US | Hilti Canada US Customer Service 1-800-879-8000 | CA Customer Service 1-800-363-4458