What dangers it carries a manual change of the temperature in the offices.
Handheld imagers, which are used by many Russian companies may be hazardous to employees due high error, the expert said — the meter can give a normal rate even for the unhealthy person, who will be allowed to work. In addition, close contact between the measuring and the employee is in violation of the rules of social distancing.
Add a professional thermal imaging cameras or entire software and hardware complexes refer to priority actions in the mass return of employees to workplaces. According to some data, every carrier COVID-19 manages to infect two to four healthy people. Thus, even two-three undiagnosed carrier of the virus is able to infect ten other people that could eventually lead to the scrapping of hundreds of employees and entire departments, resulting in serious downtime, leading to big financial losses.
Control the body temperature of employees is particularly important in areas related to personal contact with the public, is, for example, banks, insurance companies, hospitality and retail, and at the enterprises of the continuous and partially continuous cycle.
Also, you should maintain an increased level of diagnostics of a condition of personnel at the industrial enterprises: to carry out pre-shift inspection personnel for the timely detection of cases. Talking about it, and the strong recommendation of Rospotrebnadzora on the exclusion from work of people with increased body temperature or signs of infection.
the use of thermal imaging cameras is not a new thing. In the industry of such a plan device often used to detect defects and faults in electrical networks on factory instruments, military objects , etc. However, with the current situation companies have started using these devices to measure the temperature in relation to groups of people.
a Number of manufacturers have successfully shifted to the production of such equipment, and professional thermal imaging systems have been installed in China: at airports and railway stations, passing factories and offices, in public institutions, hospitals, schools, public transport.
Russian companies use to monitor the status of their employees mainly manual cameras.
However, as said “Газете.Ru” the Director of the innovation Center “infosistemy Dzhet” Alex Sechkin, they have two significant disadvantages, which reduce actually on the representativeness of measurements.
first, they give great noise, as all objects in Rthe adius measurement with a temperature above zero are automatically radiation sources and distort the readings. secondly, too high an error of ±2°C virtually eliminates the ability to separate persons with normal temperature (according to the who, it ranges from 36.5°C to 37°C) from potentially unwell with a temperature above 37.5°C.
the Expert noted that the professional thermal imaging systems such critical deficiencies are deprived. Unlike hand held devices, non-contact thermal imaging system is calibrated in real time with intelligent compensation of 0.2−0.3°C and provide minimum error. They can also adjust many other parameters: emissivity, humidity, distance to subject etc. the Software of such systems provides an opportunity to set area dimensions and to exclude from the field of view interference in the form of lamps, lanterns, batteries and other heat-emitting objects in order to avoid false positives.
“Thermal imaging camera installed at the checkpoint — in this case, the measurement is to the entrance to the room, and importantly is carried out contactless. Even in a high flow device will automatically identify people with fever. The measurement speed varies from one second and allows you to get results within a radius of 10 meters, which virtually eliminates the risk of infection. Measurement results are displayed on the monitor of the operator in the form of infrared images and temperature values for each individual, and additionally an audible signal sounds. And in the case of connection to libraries with photos, it is even possible to customize auto-lock pass,” — said the expert.
in addition to setting themselves thermal imaging systems, you can implement the whole hardware complexes (HSC), in addition to temperature control automated medical examination of employees and keeping them further treatment; to identify employees exposed to the sick during the incubation period; to provide management of the company operational Analytics to assess the level of risk and possible scenarios.
For this enterprise of a continuous cycle to develop an integrated technical and organizational strategy to reduce the threat to workers ‘ health and business for implementation in the third quarter of 2020. If the organization continues to operate in a complex epidemiological situation, the introduction of professional thermal imaging systems and PAK — this is the opportunity now to minimise the damage for the company and for each individual employee. But, of course, this should not be the only means of prevention��occur in the spread of the virus among employees.
