Lincoln safety technology start-up Tended has secured £2.4 million in investment to support its growth plans, bringing the company's total funding so far to £4.4 million.
The business, based at Boole Technology Centre, was founded in 2017 by Leo Scott Smith, to create wearable technology that helps monitor workers and improve employee safety and site efficiency.
The tech is used in industries such as construction, manufacturing, utilities, and logistics and the business has worked with clients including Siemens, Rolls-Royce, Network Rail, Unilever and Babcock.
More recently its products have been used to give social distance warnings to keep staff apart during the pandemic and provide contact tracing support.
The funding was led by existing investor Blackfinch Ventures, with participation from early-stage European venture capital firm Basinghall Partners, 海角视频RI, and a number of industry-specific angel investors.
Tended has recently started combining its wearable technology with behavioural psychology to do even more to improve safety across working environments.
This new product uncovers insights into an organisation’s safety culture and offers recommendations and resources to drive positive behavioural changes.
Tended said the wearable devices act as reinforcements, helping to promote safer behaviours by alerting employees before entering a hazardous area or unsafe zone.
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A spokesman said: “By addressing the underlying influences of human behaviour and making safety culture improvements, Tended aims to prevent 95 per cent of workplace accidents.
“According to HSE, this figure represents the total number of occupational injuries that are caused by human error.”
Mr Scott Smith, who is the company’s chief executive, said the seven-figure investment will help support growth and fund further research and development.
He said: “Every company has its own unique set of safety challenges.
“Interventions such as training and processes only go so far to improve safety.
“We’re helping companies uncover and understand the underlying influences of unsafe actions and provide the resources to help them change those behaviours.
"We aim to help companies achieve sustainable change to promote a safer workplace and positive employee experience.
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“The team has been working hard on product development and thanks to investors like Basinghall, we’re one step closer to making sure loved ones return home from dangerous working environments at the end of the day.”
Ginette Oebel, founding partner at Basinghall Partners said: “Tended is an inspiring company with a vision to significantly improve safety in workplaces using precision and science-based tools.
“Basinghall is delighted to support Tended on its journey and also to make Tended’s solutions accessible to our industry partners.”