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How to Remove the Impact of Manual Processes for Lone Worker Protection

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

The Problems with Manual Processes for Lone Working

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

Manual Approaches to Lone Worker Protection - Part 2

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

Behind the Scenes of Lone Working - Part 1

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.

The Trouble with Traditional Monitoring and Alerting Systems

Commercial solutions for monitoring, alerting and communications systems focus on lone workers, fire & intruder alarms and machinery. Many of these solutions were not originally designed for lone worker operations. Their design and implementation requires a resource-intensive approach, which in many ways hasn't changed much since the days of an actual switchboard operator connecting your calls. In this post we explore the three main problems with this traditional approach and