This company uses wearable tech to protect its workers from the blazing Texas heat

Rogers-O’Brien Construction’s rollout of VigiLife’s SafeGuard is a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

In 2022, nearly 300 people died of heat-related illnesses in Texas, the most in two decades. Yet the following year, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law that prevented local governments from setting mandatory rest or water breaks for outdoor workers. Ross Daly, director of safety at Rogers-O’Brien Construction, a Dallas-based general contractor, says he has ignored what came to be known as the Death Star Bill.