In 2016 David Redmond (CEO & Founder of Fuse) met with the Managing Director of Berkeley Group (a £2.5B homebuilder) in regard to an innovation fund that Berkeley were launching. (https://www.berkeleygroup.co.uk/innovation-fund)
Berkeley were looking to award funding from their £2m fund to back an idea or concept that would help to improve health & safety across the construction industry.
The Problem:
144 workers killed at work (2015/16)
76,000 other injuries to employees reported under RIDDOR
27.3 million working days lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury
£14.3 billion estimated cost of injuries and ill health from current working
conditions (2013/14)
The fuse team quickly saw the opportunity to leverage in-house app dev skills and collaboration skills to build a multi-language app that would pro-actively notify workers when they entered danger zones by focusing on three initial scenarios.
The Scenarios:
fuseAware currently focuses on the following three areas:
Reduce the risk of workers falling from height
Reduce the risk of objects falling from height onto workers
Reduce the risk of vehicles colliding with workers & pedestrians
The fuseAware roadmap will extend functionality to cater for multiple use cases across a variety of industries.
The funding that fuseAware received helped toward the design, build and prototyping of the solution.
The solution is now being deployed to a number of the worlds largest construction clients on a per user per month basis.
In late 2016, fuseAware completed a successful (oversubscribed) fund raise in order to capitalize the business through 2017 and 2018 in order to drive development and sales.
The opportunity for us is huge across construction, rail, manufacturing etc. We will be incorporating AI, facial recognition, collaboration and integration with line of business app's in 2017 - but we need your help. The team are focused on being the number 1 health & safety system in the world by being the best technically, commercially and from a customer service perspective.
fuseAware Overview Video: https://youtu.be/i1VvIvBUWXw fuseAware Scenario/Training Video: https://youtu.be/dDUf14p07PA
fuseAware Core Values
We are passionate about our mission
We focus on company success above personal ambition
We focus on results and not activities
We set ambitious goals and work hard to achieve them
We engage in constructive conflict and agree on final decisions
We test new ideas and take intelligent risks
We work collaboratively to leverage each others strengths and overcome weaknesses