Develop and design of a Vault Safety Platform to ensure a safer ingress and egress to/from deep hazardous underground utility vaults for all utility workers, considering aging workforce, physical condition, and current hazardous vault configurations
Extreme Ergonomics/City of Marysville/City of Puyallup/City of Edmonds
Project Summary
Overall purpose is to address a known safety and risk hazard inherent in below ground vault ingress and egress. A complete solution (actual equipment prototype) is to be designed and developed enabling a safe entry/exit task considering any injured worker as well as those of the aging workforce and also enabling workers with even good physical capabilities a safer more efficient ingress/egress task.
Amount Awarded: $60,900.00
