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    by Tina Olivero

    Focus FS announces investment from Germany- based company Dräger

    August 13, 2019

    Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA has acquired a stake in Focus Field Solutions Inc., a leading provider of industrial safety solutions based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

    With this latest investment, Lübeck, Germany-based Dräger extends its expertise in the area of digital worksites.

    Focus FS has developed a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which digitizes critical operations data for people and assets. It offers different modules such as HSE (Health, Safety & Environment), E-Mustering, Incident Management and Asset Tracking.

    The customer can choose from a range of modules and create a solution that best fits their company needs. There are three main use cases that can be addressed by the solution: worker safety, plant and asset safety, and incident safety.

    Focus FS CEO Jeffrey K. Brown and COO Jennifer West signing the Draeger agreement.
     

    This digital technology minimizes risk and delivery performance insights to create safer and smarter workplaces. Through optimized workflow traffic and facility activities, real-time analytics, and dynamic HSE processes, worker safety accelerates from simple compliance to safety culture dominance.

    Plant and asset safety enable efficient worksites with real-time inventory visibility and tracking, preventative maintenance planning, and smart rescue planning operations. Systematic management and corrective action, along with real-time communication and accountability, enhance and improve incident safety protocols.

    “Behaviour-based safety, situational awareness, and increased operational productivity are challenges our customers worldwide face on a daily basis. With this partnership, we have the ability to offer effective solutions today,” says Ann- Marie Edgerton, Vice President of Segment and Product Marketing Emergency & Rescue Services at Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA. “Our vision for tomorrow is also clear. We will ensure that not only do we offer technology for life to our customers, but we will also have an integrated offering that supports their ambitions of building safe and efficient worksites.”

    “We are very enthusiastic about having Dräger as a partner and investor,” says Jeffrey K. Brown, CEO and co-founder of Focus FS. “This investment shows Dräger’s confidence in our vision of creating connecting worksites. We believe zero-harm is achievable – and by aligning ourselves with Dräger, who also believes workplace safety is paramount, we can help our customers realize that ambition.”

    Focus FS already has a strong presence in the oil and gas, mining, and transportation sectors with Canadian and international customers. An important aspect of the company’s connected worksite vision involves market growth and product adoption.

    About Focus FS

    Jeffrey K. Brown and Jennifer West founded Focus FS in 2012 and have a team of 15 employees. The company partners with industrial worksites to enable safer, smarter operations. The company helps industrial clients use digital technology to minimize risk, deliver performance insights and improve safety culture on worksites around the world.

    For more information, please visit www.focusfs.com.

    Tina Olivero

    30 years ago, Tina Olivero looked into the future and saw an opportunity to make a difference for her province and people. That difference came in the form of the oil and gas sector. Six years before there was even a drop of oil brought to the shores of Newfoundland, she founded The Oil and Gas Magazine (THE OGM) from a back room in her home on Signal Hill Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A single mother, no financing, no previous journalism or oil and gas experience, she forged ahead, with a creative vision and one heck of a heaping dose of sheer determination. With her pioneering spirit, Ms. Olivero developed a magazine that would educate, inspire, motivate and entertain oil and gas readers around the world — She prides herself in marketing and promoting our province and resources in unprecedented ways. The OGM is a magazine that focuses on our projects, our people, our opportunities and ultimately becomes the bridge to new energy outcomes and a sustainable new energy world. Now diversifying into the communications realms, a natural progression from the Magazine, The OGM now offers an entirely new division - Oil & Gas Media. Today, The Oil and Gas Magazine is a global phenomenon that operates not only in Newfoundland, but also in Calgary and is read by oil and gas enthusiasts in Norway, Aberdeen, across the US and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. Believing that Energy is everyone’s business, Ms. Olivero has combined energy + culture to embrace the worlds commitment to a balance of work and home life as well as fostering a foundation for health and well being. In this era of growth and development business and lifestyle are an eloquent mix, there is no beginning or end. Partnering with over 90 oil and gas exhibitions and conferences around the world, Ms. Olivero's role as a Global Visionary is to embrace communication in a way that fosters oil and gas business and industry growth in new and creative ways.

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