How Safety Can Improve Productivity- with Pete Schermerhorn - Spot R, Triax Tech

When I interviewed Pete Schermerhorn about Spot-r, he kept the first question simple: what does the technology do for the worker wearing it? That order mattered because later productivity value depended on whether the worker experienced the tool as help, not surveillance.

The first value is faster help

Pete Schermerhorn described fall alerts and worker-initiated alerts that could identify who needed help and where that person was on the site. He also framed the worker as an active part of the safety culture, not only someone being monitored.

Trust depends on the limits

When I asked about a Big Brother response, Pete said the device had no GPS and was active only on the jobsite. Those limits matter because teams need to understand what a tool does not track before they trust what it does.

Productivity comes later

Pete Schermerhorn said the same data could later support waste review, estimating, and less manual entry into project systems. He also put the adoption test plainly: "People are only going to use it if it has a good outcome for them and it's easy to use." That makes worker benefit the first rollout question and productivity analysis the later one.