The Alcalá de Henares City Council has acquired a hundred heat stress wristbands for the workers of the Municipal Services Park, which will be distributed in the coming days. This measure expands the prevention of heat stress already initiated in street cleaning.
The Alcalá de Henares City Council, through the Department of Works and Urban Maintenance, has acquired 100 heat stress wristbands for the workers of the Municipal Services Park. The devices will be distributed in the coming days among the staff, as reported by the City Council.
This action is part of the municipal strategy for preventing heat stress, which is already applied in other services. In fact, the City Council, along with Valoriza (the street cleaning concessionaire) and the Japanese technology firm Biodata Bank, has already implemented a system of smart wristbands for cleaning workers.
These devices monitor body temperature in real-time using a heat flow sensor and issue preventive alerts when they detect risky situations. This allows for measures such as breaks or the reorganization of shifts to avoid heat strokes.
The Councillor for Works and Urban Maintenance, Antonio Saldaña, explained that “as was done with the cleaning company, this type of device will help ensure greater safety for workers during the hottest months and days of the year.”
“Our priority is to provide municipal workers with tools that allow them to perform their duties with the utmost safety guarantees. Prevention is essential, and these wristbands complement the measures for work organization, hydration, and protection against heat that we already implement,” Saldaña concluded.
With this purchase, the Alcalá de Henares City Council extends protection against high temperatures to a particularly exposed group, such as the workers of the Municipal Services Park. The distribution of the wristbands will begin in the coming days, just before the hottest season.
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