The Protection Risk of Isolation, not Vulnerability
We examine the risk to workers who are not necessarily in vulnerable situations, but are certainly in isolated circumstances, often for many
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 Protection Risk of Incidents, not Accidents
In this post we look at the often overlooked area of incidents in the workplace, and make a distinction between their much less common cousi
Isle Systems Swift Blog - Case Studies in Monitoring, Alerting and Communications
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
Why Manual Processes to Protect Lone Working Aren't Working
In this post we explore what the implications of the 5 problems are on the company that takes the manual approach.
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
Manual Approaches to Lone Worker Protection - Part 1
In this post we look at the monitoring approaches employed by the majority of companies
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.
One combined device for complete lone worker and non-lone worker monitoring, alerting and communicat
How one company started with a lone worker protection requirement and ended up improving its whole plant.
The New Ways to Think About Lone Worker Protection
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.
