Garmin Health glimpse: Supporting workers’ safety
January 12, 2026
Garmin smartwatches are helping drive innovation in the field of worker safety.
More than 395 million people globally are injured at work each year, according to the International Labour Organization. The ILO also found work accidents cause 330,000 deaths annually.
Safer workplaces help reduce absenteeism and turnover, keeping production efficient and reliable. Biometric data provides a new way to address prevention by focusing on monitoring vitals related to extreme heat, fatigue and stress.
With the Garmin Health connected ecosystem, companies can support workplace awareness by accessing insights related to physical workload, fatigue and environmental conditions in operational settings.
This Garmin Health workers’ safety glimpse demonstrates how Garmin smartwatches1 are supporting companies that aim to improve the safety of workers around the world.
Safeguarding workers from extreme heat
VigiLife, Inc.
The project: VigiLife’s SafeGuard platform helps workers and their site managers monitor indicators associated with heat stress. Using heart rate1 and energy expenditure (i.e., calories) data from Garmin smartwatches via the Garmin Companion SDK integration, SafeGuard provides access to personalized core body temperature awareness as well as early insight when heat strain is too high to continue working safely. Beyond heat, SafeGuard also tracks environmental exposures such as carbon monoxide and noise and also includes wellness features that support overall worker health.
How Garmin factors in:Garmin smartwatches provide durable, reliable and data-rich smartwatches with superior battery life. The data SafeGuard collects — including heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), step count, stress, respiration rate and Body Battery™ energy monitoring1 — is transformed into predictive insights and alerts.
The goal: The SafeGuard platform helps proactively manage heat risk by combining biometric and environmental monitoring with predictive analytics. This approach can help protect crews, reduce incidents and keep projects on track.
Predicting driver fatigue
Sleep Advice Technologies (SAT) and WHG
The project: FleetPREDICT from WHG leverages SAT’s IP to help predict driver fatigue based on Garmin smartwatch data. The platform monitors, tracks and predicts human fatigue, and acts as an early warning system to potentially reduce the risk of accidents caused by drowsy driving.
How Garmin factors in: Garmin smartwatches provide key vital monitoring — such as heart rate, beat-to-beat intervals (BBI) and HRV1 — and the Companion SDK integration provides access to a real-time stream of Garmin data that powers SAT’s proprietary algorithms for fatigue detection.
The goal: SAT and WHG, by collaborating with Garmin, aim to empower industries to act before accidents happen and bring peace of mind to drivers with a non-invasive solution.
Reducing risk in the workplace
Alternative Data Management (ADAM) AI SOLUTIONS s.r.l.
The project: ADAM PRESTO is a predictive safety tool focused on helping prevent incidents that can result in injuries or deaths. The proprietary risk engine calculates a risk indicator using real-time information collected from Garmin smartwatches along with data from the company, workers and the working environment.
How Garmin factors in: Garmin provides reliable devices, sensor data and customized interfaces to collect stress, heart rate and Body Battery™ energy monitoring1 data in real time.
The goal: The risk indicator prompts actions when a worker exceeds a predefined threshold, such as being too stressed to perform a task. ADAM PRESTO aims to improve safety at work by predicting and preventing workplace incidents.
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1Garmin devices are not designed or intended to monitor or diagnose diseases or any medical conditions. Find information on metric accuracy here.