New partnership provides better information on hazardous workplace exposures
(PRWEB) February 27, 2015 -- Industrial Hygienists can now make better informed decisions about the risk of exposures to chemicals, noise, and other hazards in the workplace, thanks to a new interface between Medgate and EASi’s products.
Medgate customers can now directly access IH Data Analyst, created by EASi, thanks to an exclusive partnership announced last year. It allows users of Medgate’s industrial hygiene software to perform Bayesian Decision Analysis (BDA) as part of their risk assessments to give clearer outcomes about exposures with limited data.
IH Data Analyst is widely recognized as the industry standard in BDA tools, used by hygienists all over the world. Before now, industrial hygiene professionals have had to use a standalone application, adding significant time and effort into their risk analysis processes. By integrating this tool into Medgate’s Industrial Hygiene suite, Industrial Hygienists will be able to manage all of their risk assessments in a single, centralized location.
Medgate’s Industrial Hygiene Product Manager, Monica Melkonian CIH, said: “Performing Bayesian Analysis with IH Data Analyst, will allow Medgate customers to validate their professional judgment regarding risk, to help ensure the best possible decisions are made about risk of employee exposures.”
About Medgate
Medgate (http://www.medgate.com) is a leading provider of software for environmental, industrial hygiene, occupational health, and safety data management. Available in multiple languages, Medgate software is used across the globe in hundreds of the best known corporations and government entities.
Developed by certified EHS professionals, the Medgate software supports a safety / environmental management system approach. Using the robust software application, EHS professionals can manage incidents, mitigate risks, satisfy compliance requirements, identify problem areas, and measure performance.
About EASi
EASi (http://oesh.com/software.php) develops IH Data Analyst (IHDA), an innovative, unique occupational data analysis product designed to assist the industrial hygienist in interpreting datasets where the sample size is small.
About Bayesian Decision Analysis
Bayesian decision analysis is branch of statistics based upon the theorem of the mathematician Thomas Bayes which can show how probable certain outcomes are in a given a set of circumstances.
Being able to perform this kind of analysis is particularly useful for industrial hygienists. Their role involves measuring potentially hazardous workplace exposures to determine whether employees are at risk and should be protected and monitored for health impacts.
If the number of samples taken is large enough, it is relatively straightforward to use the data collected to make risk-based decisions. However, with limited data, it becomes more difficult to statistically validate those decisions.
Applying Bayesian decision analysis to sample data sets will allow industrial hygienists to act with more certainty when compared to standard statistical methods, particularly when the sample size is limited.
David Poole, Medgate, http://www2.medgate.com/l/11702/2013-01-30/q2p6q, +1 (416) 863-6800 Ext: 323, [email protected]
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