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I want to check-in before my scheduled time. I’m going into a high risk situation
Sometimes, workers find they are entering a potentially high risk situation. As a result, they want to check-in before the next scheduled check-in is due. This feature is only available to app users…
The 2008 murder of realtor Lindsay Buziak while showing a property in Victoria, BC, Canada is a disturbing example of why you need to manage the safety of your lone workers. There are many sales industry professionals who may be at risk when working alone; realtors showing homes, car salespeople taking customers for a test drive, and all sorts of outside sales workers who travel to visit clients and prospects.
Sending your team out on sales calls without a lone worker safety device is just not acceptable anymore, not when there is an affordable safety solution like Ok Alone.
Manufacturing industry and factory workers can be exposed to a wide range of dangerous situations and risks to their safety increase when they are working alone. Performing equipment maintenance, handling raw or in-process materials, and using heavy machinery are just some of the everyday tasks where a lone worker safety system could ensure that you and your co-workers go home safely at the end of a shift.
Discover the Latest in Lone Worker Safety Technology from Europe's Industry Leaders
Thousands attended the recent IFSEC 2016 trade show at the Excel Exhibition Centre in London, the biggest show in the UK for the security industry with over 600 exhibitors. A plethora of new and newly upgraded systems, safety apps and tools were shared with interested visitors from across the globe.
Where are your people?
You may think that your GPS system is keeping track of where everyone is as they go about their work, but GPS has definite shortcomings. It may be able to tell you where your worker is, but it won’t tell you how they are.
Health and social care professionals met in London June 29-30 at the 2016 Health + Care Conference to learn about new ways to deliver healthcare and improve productivity in the delivery of health services. Advances in technology provide a multitude of new tools and integrated systems that can improve not only patient care, but also support the well-being and safety of health care workers.
What is a lone worker monitoring system and do you, as an employer, need one?
Workers in remote locations, at high risk job sites or providing services in private residences, face threats to their safety. What are a few things that you should consider when setting up a lone worker system to protect your employees?
You've worked hard to get that property listing and now you have a potential buyer coming to see it. Fantastic. As exciting as this is, it's worth remembering that following a few basic rules can go a long way to ensure your return home safely.
Retail is less regulated than other high risk industries, but it has its share of risks too. Retail is public facing. You don't know who is coming in off the streets. Combined with long opening hours, cash handling and sometimes staff working on their own you end up with some significant safety challenges.
Every morning, we get up and go about our day assuming we'll come home safely tonight. Thankfully, that is almost always true. For land surveyors, there are 3 special safety concerns that you should pay close attention to.
A Guardian/Insight survey asked what are the key challenges facing individual care worker, and the key challenges facing their employers. The challenges faced by employees and employers are linked. Forced by councils to bid at the lowest cost, home care providers struggle to pay and train their staff sufficiently to overcome skills and staffing shortages.
Sometimes people think because they have gps tracking on their vehicles, they are monitoring the safety of their workers. Here's a story from one of our customers. After you read it, you decide…
Whether it's for missed check-ins or help alerts, everyone who works alone or in isolation needs a written escalation procedure telling the support team what to do. That sounds easy enough, but often different employees require different approaches. So what are some of the key elements every escalation procedure should include?
Single point of of contact is important in quarrying and aggregates businesses. It’s there for operational reasons as well a safey requirement. Keeping your points of contact up-to-date can be difficult when staff are constantly changing and coming on and off shift and where you have lots of contractors.