Newcrest Mining wants wearables to keep staff hydrated, reduce loo stops

By Ry Crozier on May 8, 2019 7:15AM

Pours $10k into innovation competition.

Newcrest Mining is looking to wearables and algorithms to help workers at its Telfer mine drink enough water after tests found up to one-third of all workers didn't start the day adequately hydrated. The miner is running a competition via Unearthed with $10,000 in prizes on offer for solutions ...

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