Construction workers in the UAE soon can receive cooling vests that will help maintain their safety during the hottest months of the year.
Aegis, a security and risk management company, has announced a partnership with Emirates NBD to launch a 200-vest program in the UAE.
ArabianBusiness reported that an initial testing in Qatar showed that the cooling apparatus, which was developed by students at the University of Toronto, led to a decrease in the number of workers with high blood pressure.
The cooling vest also keeps a worker’s average body temperature stable.
Adam Sheikh, one of the students who developed the device, said the team monitored workers’ body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure while wearing the cooling vests.
“In a one-month period, the number of workers who had high blood pressure dropped by 50 percent. And we were getting very strong reviews from the workers as well. By the end of our testing, the workers gave the vests an average rating of seven, with zero being ‘I felt no cooling’ and 10 being ‘I felt no heat at all,’” Sheikh said in an article posted on the U of T website.
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