Protecting Lone Workers in the Utilities Sector

Utility Worker Safety

The utility sector faces unique safety challenges, particularly when it comes to safeguarding lone and remote workers. With power, water, and gas services often requiring technicians to operate in isolated locations and at all hours, ensuring their well-being is critical.

Utility workers frequently operate in hazardous conditions, whether it’s conducting inspections, performing maintenance on power lines, or responding to emergency situations. For these workers, often isolated and exposed to risks such as falls, equipment failure, or inclement weather, ensuring swift communication and support can be a matter of life and death. Works are also increasingly working in natural disaster stricken environments, which means there are greater requirements to ensure employers meet duty of care obligations.

At Guardian Angel Safety, we understand the complexities of managing lone and remote worker safety and the unique risks facing field staff in the utilities sector. Our comprehensive solutions are tailored to address the specific risks faced by your workers and provide peace of mind for both field workers, and management. We will work with you to recommend the most suitable devices, processes, and response protocols to keep your workers safe.

We have a range of wearable safety devices that work out of cell reception, have man down alerts and are durable to withstand all elements from extreme temperatures, water to falls. 

In an emergency, an employee can send an alert or in the case of a fall an alert will be sent immediately notifying our 24/7 A1-graded monitoring station (or your in-house monitoring) who will coordinate a rapid response.

Finding the right solution for your team’s safety is not just about finding the right App or Device.

Regulatory Compliance

Boost Compliance

Meet regulatory requirements by tracking worker safety and ensuring appropriate emergency protocols are in place. 

Safety Protocols and Training

We make balancing and coordinating operational demands with safety requirements in high risk settings easy. We help equip your team with the knowledge and tools for self-protection with comprehensive hands-on testing and training ensures every employee is a confident user of the solution.

Safety and Efficiency

Protect Your Workforce and Bottom Line

Safety isn’t just about compliance—it’s about safeguarding your most valuable asset, your people, while minimizing financial risk.

Ensure the Safety of your Utility Workers

Guardian Angel Safety collaborates with your managers, team leaders and operations teams to provide tailored safety solutions that align with the unique needs of your utility workers. Our approach is flexible, scalable, and designed to ensure compliance with industry regulations while optimizing operational efficiency.

Operational Risks for Lone Workers in Utilities

Utilities workers may far from help if an incident occurs due to being in remote locations or disaster impacted areas, which also makes access to the location difficult. 

Medical issues can become critical without immediate access to emergency services. Utilities workers work in environments where they are faced with higher risk of personal injury from electrical hazards and risk of electrocution, slips and falls from heights during maintenance work, or exposure to hazardous materials or gases. 

From confined spaces to electrical hazards, utility workers are often working in dangerous situations. Workers are often called out to visit locations that have been impacted by natural disasters or isolated environmental incidents. Visiting these types of locations means employees face an increased risk of slips, trips, falls, electrocution, and other injuries, with potentially delayed emergency response due to the area’s condition.  Exposure to more unpredictable weather, challenging terrain, exposed electrical lines, floods, machinery and wildlife poses significant risks to personal safety.

Utilities Sector Use Case Scenarios

By leveraging Guardian Angel Safety’s innovative technology and personalised approach, Utility companies can create safer working environments, ensuring employee well-being across all roles and locations.

Utility workers in extreme elements

Utility Workers during Extreme Elements

From cold snaps to heatwaves and hazardous environments, Utility workers can face many extreme elements while maintaining and fixing critical infrastructure.

Utility worker in natural disasters

Utility Workers during Natural Disasters

Utility workers face many risks and work in treacherous conditions while undertaking critical infrastructure work during natural disasters such as storms, floods, fires and earthquakes.

Utility workers after hours

On Call and After Hours Utility Workers

After-hours and on-call utility workers face significant risks from fatigue, exposure to hazardous environments during nighttime repairs,  confrontation, and isolation when working alone in remote areas.

Download Our Buyers Guide

Learn how to select the right devices, and monitoring and get clarity on the best lone and remote worker solutions for your utility company.

Guardian Angel – Your trusted safety partner

We won’t just sell you a gadget and leave you to it. We provide responsible solutions to save lives. We will partner with you to assess your specific needs, bring your team on board, and regularly test, train, and launch the new safety program.

Devices

We work with globally established proven hardware manufacturers to provide you with the best option for each team or individual.

Connectivity

We have satellite and cellular options to provide you with a solution that covers all your staff operating areas and needs so your lone workers are protected with the most reliable network.

Monitoring

We provide an A-graded, 24/7, real-time, in-country support and alert monitoring for your employees, or we can help you set up monitoring in-house.

Partner with Guardian Angel Safety today

Get in touch to start your journey on keeping your utility employees safe.
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Our Clients include

Delivering Lone Worker solutions for leading agencies.

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