No manager can be everywhere at once in a laundry facility. That means he or she could miss seeing an unsafe action by an employee, or a trip-and-fall risk or other hazard that emerges on a given day. The reality of daily operations is that a certain number of unsafe actions or conditions in a plant are likely to escape early detection. That, in turn, could lead to an accident.

Now, technology is helping to put the odds of keeping commercial or institutional laundry workplaces free of incidents back in favor of the staff and managers. The solution—promoted by a ...