Emergency health monitoring system and wearable vital sign monitor

A method of monitoring worker health status, comprising:

• (a) positioning a plurality of quiescent wearable vital sign monitoring devices that have no visual display on a plurality of workers;
• (b) entering the plurality of workers' names and work locations in a receiving device, having a database, correlating one of the plurality of quiescent wearable vital sign monitoring devices to each of the plurality of workers in the database;
• (c) remotely obtaining a vital sign reading from each of the plurality of quiescent wearable vital sign monitoring devices with the receiving device;
• (d) determining whether each vital sign reading indicates a health status within a predetermined normal range or outside of the predetermined normal range;
• (e) deploying workers having normal-range health status;
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• (f) removing from the workplace or rescuing workers whose health status is outside of the predetermined normal range.