How do you and your company identify who a lone worker is? Is it someone who works alone during the evening shift? Do any other employees come to mind? What about drivers, utility workers, oil and gas pipeline workers, building inspectors, fire investigators, police officers, security guards, lab workers, cleaning staff, gas station attendants and convenience store clerks? As you can see, the list is practically endless. At some point in time, almost every employee in your company will be working alone. Do you have a plan and procedures in place to provide protection and most importantly, a way for them to summon help when needed?
Today, there are options for employees that work alone. Recognizing that someone who works for you, is at your business alone, should immediately be a cause for concern. From violence to medical incidents and accidents, the lone worker is extremely vulnerable. Quite often the only connection a worker has to their company is a phone that may or may not be easily accessible when they need it. If they fall or suffer a cardiac incident for example, how are they going to get help? When a worker suffers a life-threatening injury, the most important thing is rapid intervention of critical care. They can’t get help if they can’t help themselves. It is vital that there is a system in place that will allow the worker to get help, even when they can’t make a call or there isn’t anyone nearby to help them. OnGuard’s safety application transforms your phone into a complete safety device by providing automatic safety and life checks, panic button, fall detection and a full suite of safety and emergency alerting tools for your worker. They simply carry their phone with them, and OnGuard does the rest. Notifications in the event of illness or injury to supervisors and emergency services will be the difference between a successful outcome and a life threatening one.
A complete safety training program that educates workers on how to make the best use of the tools is included in OnGuard’s safety suite and takes only a few minutes to complete. The program provides peace of mind for company’s and ensures regulatory compliance.