Guardian Angel Safety, the industry-leading provider of lone and remote worker safety solutions in Australasia, has unveiled its latest software offering, Safe Trips, to improve field worker trip safety. Safe Trips allows users to easily log trip details in advance, ensuring a proactive approach to risk management and employee well-being.
Many organisations employ workers who carry out their duties remotely or in isolation. Any safety issue these workers encounter — be it a car accident, medical event or an accident with machinery, water or working at a height — can escalate very quickly without good safety practices and technology in place to help with an immediate emergency response. Lone and remote worker safety expert PETRA HAKANSSON, CEO of Guardian Angel Safety, speaks with Safety Solutions about how organisations can adopt new practices and technology to improve the safety of workers.
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Raising an SOS from wherever you are, and the guarantee of being found fast is 100% achievable and practicable.
The GRWM Regulations, part 2, Guideline 3.1 deal with risks associated with remote or isolated work. It is a PCBU’s responsibility to manage the risk. I think the HSWA guidelines are fairly prescriptive, but as we all know… all the guidelines are fairly open to interpretation, but two things are very clear;
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This fatal incident highlights not only the importance of training users in safety equipment and processes for use, but also for us, highlights how a man down alarm in situations where workers are out of line of sight of each other would instantly alert others to an incident.