Fuell

John Stuart, an industry veteran with over two decades of experience in tech product management and development, strongly believes that physical wellness is critical to the development of a healthy mental state. Concerning employee wellness, key to organisational success, he witnessed that most wellness programs were predominantly geared towards office-based employees and excluded lone workers such as delivery executives, HGV drivers, maintenance personnel, and others. Also, these programs did not include employees that deal with lesser office-centric tasks like part-time workers and the overall casual workforce. He thought, how could an organisation with a decentralised workforce encourage employees to be active?

To address this gap in the market, John Stuart founded Fuell, a UK-based company that offers a platform—developed in collaboration with Oxford University and the European Space Agency—to help companies provide wellness programs to lone workers. Unlike conventional employee wellness solutions that educate users through fitness and health-based literature, Fuell’s platform takes a more direct approach to healthy living. By leveraging its partnerships with leading wearable technology giant Garmin, and links with Apple, Google, and Fitbit, Fuell’s platform can seamlessly integrate with any fitness wearable used by the employees to gather critical health stats – at a more basic level it also works with Android and iOS smart phones. This functionality enables Fuell to facilitate the creation of fitness challenges that allow users to compete in running, swimming, cycling, and more.

“Users can connect their fitness wearables to our platform and create or engage in individual or corporate-sponsored challenges to drive the significance of physical exercise within their organisations,” says Stuart.

Additionally, the platform also includes lone worker health monitoring, which tracks critical health parameters like sleep, stress, heart rate, and more, to provide timely intervention in case of an adverse event. “We can monitor if an employee is not sleeping well through their wearable device data, and provide tips to help them manage their sleep better,” remarks Stuart.

Users can connect their fitness wearables to our platform and create or engage in individual or corporate-sponsored challenges to drive the significance of physical exercise within their organisations

If the case of an HGV driver or other workers in fleet operations is considered, the company offers a customised version of its platform, known as Fuell Fleet. Helping fleet operators to track a driver’s critical health parameters, better understand any underlying medical condition, and notify the concerned individuals to prevent potential accidents. Fuell Fleet also provides the necessary steps for a user to manage their stress and fatigue levels through in-app notifications or coaching and counselling programs. “Fuell Fleet’s ability to spot abnormalities in a user’s data helps us establish real-time lone worker monitoring, which is the highest-value aspect of our company,” adds Stuart.

For instance, if a delivery executive has an accident while working late at night, Fuell’s platform will notice the spike in the user’s health stats and notify the concerned office and emergency service. Concurrently, Fuell Fleet integrates with vehicle Telematics and pinpoints a user’s location to help notified emergency service personnel reach the injured user in time.

Riding on the coattails of such leading-edge capabilities, Fuell has ignited several client success stories across multiple industries such as transportation, construction, oil & gas, and others. Highlighting the platform’s efficacy is Mickey Rooney, UK regional manager at GSH Group, who says, “The Fuell platform is a simple and engaging way to promote health and wellbeing for large volumes of people. It creates shared activity goals that I can see, extending beyond the challenges and into the workplace.”

Looking ahead, the company plans to expand Fuell Fleet’s capabilities by working closely with its partners. With these collaborations, Fuell aims to incorporate additional health sensors and bolster its ability to spot fatigue in lone workers. Currently, Fuell is working with doctors from Manchester University to improve its awareness of how fatigue can lead to bad decision-making and other risks. “We are also looking forward to providing a more robust employee wellness platform to worldwide users at the lowest possible cost and, with the fleet market, we see a role in risk management as we work to create healthier drivers.” concludes Stuart.