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Safety Innovation Challenge

Every year, the NSC Safety Technology Pavilion presents a Safety Innovation Challenge showcasing technologies addressing a top risk facing workers today. Safety Innovation Challenge attendees:

● Learn about a pervasive safety issue
● Engage with technology solutions available to solve the risk

● See how to get their company ready to adopt technology
● Learn how to pilot a technology solution


The Safety Innovation Challenge identifies safety and health concerns, challenging organizations and emerging technology providers to identify solutions. This year’s 10 finalists at the 2026 NSC Safety Summit in Baltimore were chosen to highlight emerging technologies that measure, detect or predict fatigue.

MākuSafe Named 2026 Safety Innovation Challenge Winner

This year's finalists included:

Design Interactive: Greenlight mobile-based fatigue monitoring system integrates wearable and smartphone data to support safer performance in high-risk environments

electrocore Inc.: TAC-STIM handheld device stimulates the vagus nerve to reduce fatigue and improve attention and decision making

Impairment Science Inc.: DRUID mobile app uses neuroscience-based tests to assess cognitive and motor impairment for fit-for-duty screening

Innsightful Inc.: Wearable-enabled platform continuously tracks physiological indicators to quantify workplace exhaustion and deliver real-time interventions

MakuSafe Wearable TechWearable and analytics platform detects and predicts fatigue-related strain through motion sensing and environmental monitoring

Predictive Safety SRP, Inc.: AlertMeter and AlertMeter FRMS assess worker alertness and provide predictive fatigue risk management tools

Pulsar Informatics: Fatigue Meter predictive analytics platform, originally developed from NASA technology, integrates wearable data, sleep tracking and alertness assessments

SmartTec Inc.Okaya AI-driven platform extracts digital biomarkers from brief video check-ins to detect fatigue in real time

MākuSafe was named 2026 Work to Zero Safety Innovation Challenge Winner.

SOBEREYE Inc.: OPTOVERA smartphone-based assessment measures how eyes respond to light to help determine fitness for duty 

Vocadian: Predictive voice AI solution that analyzes voice biomarkers and circadian science to forecast fatigue risk in safety-critical roles

2025 Safety Innovation Challenge Finalists

2024 Safety Innovation Challenge Finalists

Past NSC Event Pavilion Exhibitors


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