In a previous post we covered 5 potential impacts of adopting manual processes to protecting your lone workers. These were: the human element leading to broken processes, non-compliance and increased risk; the time factor leading to life-threatening delays; reputational and recruitment threats to your business; increased costs from layering on the security overhead; decreases in productivity and ultimately profitability. In this post we look at how to remove these impacts wit

Here’s the short hand on 4 recent Isle Systems case studies. 4 different situations, 4 different industries. Protecting dispersed road crews and depots with one system - Looking for proactive protection for workers in high-risk occupations - 70 users and 1 centralised system for monitoring, alerting and communications - Protected, compliant lone worker operations now drive major productivity gains Read the full blog post here. Consolidating several alarm and alert systems int

Almost all companies have in place some kind of process to make sure they operate – and can demonstrate – a duty of care to their staff, especially their lone workers, to make sure they don’t fall foul of health and safety regulations. For a good majority of companies, these processes are manual, both on the monitoring side and the alerting and communications side, involving paper and people. In this third post in a series on manual processes for lone worker protection, we lo

In a previous post we looked at a range of ways companies use manual processes to make sure they’re providing a duty of care to their employees, thereby complying with the relevant health and safety legislation for their country. Paper, clocking in and out, whiteboard notifications, people checking in with their lone workers and recording times, locations and wellbeing: these are all manual elements of the monitoring side of protecting your key staff. But what happens if ther

In the first part of this two-blog-post series we look behind the front-line staff to the systems that are whirring away in the background.

Apart from these two obvious areas, it turns out that there are other ways to think about lone worker protection. Here are four of them.

In this post we take a look at emerging trends for lone worker protection and place six experienced bets on what the next 12 months holds. 1) Falling Lone Worker Hardware costs Let’s start with a couple of easy ones first. Continual advances in technology have been driving down the costs of hardware. For example, where you used to need very deep pockets for indoor positioning beacons, each requiring its own power source, now devices are a fraction of that cost and will run

The company had been considering a lone worker system with indoor positioning for a long time, a situation which became more pressing after

How one company was able to unify its lone worker, alarm systems and machines, with 100% adoption and super-fast alerting

In a previous post we talked about the concept of PIE when it comes to monitoring, alerting and communications for your lone workers, your buildings and your key machinery and other important physical assets. People come to us looking to protect three areas of their business. Either it’s their people – the P – or it’s their infrastructure – the I – or it’s their equipment – the E. Sometimes it’s more than one area, sometimes it’s all of them. This blog post is about the P, pr