How Drones Reduce Risk and Raise Standards in Workplace Safety

For decades, safety professionals have had to make a frustrating tradeoff: you can get close enough to see hazards clearly, or you can keep people out of harm’s way. Too often, “getting the data” meant putting a competent worker or supervisor in a precarious position. Drones change that equation. When used correctly, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) let safety teams collect better information, faster, from safer vantage points, while reducing the number of people exposed to high consequence hazards.