The Escalating
Hazard Landscape
The complexity of global logistics has outpaced traditional safety protocols. In the maritime sector, stagnant manual monitoring is no longer sufficient to mitigate systemic risks of musculoskeletal disorders.
ANNUAL MARITIME INCIDENTS
1,800 High-Severity Cases
RISK ACCELERATION
1.5x Increase YoY
92%
PREVENTION ACCURACY
24/7
SYSTEMATIC VIGILANCE
CRITICAL FOCUS AREAS
Risk Across Port Environments
From the ship's rail to the warehouse floor, our sensors capture risk where it happens.
Manual Handling of Lifting Gear
Frequent handling of chains, slings, spreader bars, and twist locks often overhead or in awkward postures adds significant stress to the spine and upper limbs.
Mooring Operations
Mooring is among the most demanding port tasks, where heavy ropes and wires strain the back, shoulders, and arms, causing MSD risks, snap-back, and entanglement hazards.
Berths
and Docks
Monitoring high-impact manual handling during ship mooring and heavy cargo tethering operations.
Access and Egress Support
Managing gangways and ramps involves heavy loads, height work, and stabilizing equipment, worsened by tide and wind.
Manual Handling of Baggage
Repetitive lifting, pushing, and pulling under time pressure leads to cumulative back, shoulder, and upper‑limb strain, especially with stooping, twisting, and uneven surfaces.
Passenger Terminals
Ensuring safety for baggage handlers and ground staff during high-volume passenger turnaround.
Crane and Vehicle Operation
Reach stacker, straddle carrier, and RTG operators experience prolonged WBV and static sitting, increasing chronic low‑back disorder risk.
Handling Securing Gear
Operating twist locks, lashing bars, and securing mechanisms requires bending and reaching in tight spaces, straining shoulders, limbs, and lower back.
Container Yards
Real-time risk assessment for reachstacker operators and ground crewnavigating hazardous zones.
Manual Handling of Lifting Gear
Pushing trolleys in tight spaces with trunk rotation increases spinal shear and compression.
Repetitive Handling
Rapid, repeated lifting and stacking produce cumulative loading on the back, shoulders, and upper extremities.
Warehouses
and Transit Sheds
Advanced biomechanical analysis of repetitive picking, packing, and sorting movements.
Manual Handling of Lifting Gear
Forklift operators face WBV on uneven floors, causing cumulative spinal stress and back issues.
How MOVA Reduces MSD Risk in
Rail Industry
MOVA uses wearable sensors and AI to continuously track manual handling risk across every shift — giving your H&S team objective data, automated HSE reporting, and the evidence needed to intervene before injuries happen.
Objective, continuous risk assessment
Replaces subjective observation with sensor data, tracking fatigue and posture degradation as it happens across a shift.
AI-driven mitigation
suggestions
Our AI interprets risk and industry context, delivering targeted mitigation strategies aligned to the hierarchy of controls and best practice.
Real-environment staff
training
Real-time postural feedback replaces classroom sessions, correcting technique where risk occurs and driving lasting behaviour change.
Enterprise‑grade risk
visibility
One dashboard. Multi-site visibility, risk hot-spots, prioritisation, and
faster compliance at
every level.
Automated HSE-compliant reporting
Automated HSE-aligned reporting — MAC, RAPP, and ART — consistent, auditable, and free from
admin burden.
Built for the Dock,
Not Just the Lab
Port and maritime environments are unforgiving. MOVA is engineered to withstand the salt air, heavy machinery interference, and extreme physical demands of a live port environment.
IP68 Rated
Built for saltwater exposure, deck washdowns, and coastal conditions.
Magnetically Immune
Precise data even near heavy steel structures and power lines.
12h Shift Battery
Outlasts the longest port shifts — from early morning loading to overnight operations.
Millimeter Precision
Capture spinal micro-
movements invisible to video tracking.
Benefits Across Your Organisation
One platform. Measurable outcomes for every team that touches health and safety
Staff
Upto
77%
reduction in injury risk through early intervention
Better
posture
real-time, on-the-job feedback corrects technique as it happens
Less
fatigue
risk tracked and managed across the full work shift
Health & Safety
75%
less time spent on risk assessment and reporting
Zero
admin
automated reporting frees focus for mitigation, not paperwork
Audit
ready
objective, HSE-compliant data builds stronger compliance cases
Operations
Less
down time
fewer injuries means fewer disruptions to workflows and output
Consistent
flow
Safer execution means smoother, more predictable operations
More
output
productivity gains unlocked when risk is proactively managed
Leadership
Better
performance
lower risk exposure directly improves operational outcomes
Clear
compliance
Auditable data makes regulatory compliance easy to prove
Safety
culture
data-driven approach builds a proactive, credible safety function
Learning & Development
Faster onboarding
real-world, on-the-job training accelerates time to
competence
Consistent standards
data-driven feedback removes variability in how training
lands
Lasting behaviour change
continuous in-task coaching reinforces safe practices beyond the classroom
“Transport for Wales (TFW) have had the pleasure of connecting and working with Spatial Cortex using their wearable MOVA technology to obtain tangible insights into preventing and reducing Manual-handling injuries and Musculo-Skeletal Disorders (MSDs). MOVA gave reliable, consistent, and qualitative data.”
Catherine Green
HSEQ Business Partner (Fleet),
Transport for Wales Rail
