Earthquakes. Floods. Bushfires. Volcanic eruptions. New Zealand and Australia have had their fair share of natural disasters in recent years and these events simply highlight the importance of mass messaging when your staff are at risk.
As well as lone worker solutions, we’re also passionate about remote worker safety. So, with that hat on, we took particular interest in the abstract in a paper shared by Chris Peace during an NZISM webinar.
Visibility of all your staff, and the ability to mass message them across the whole business, by teams, groups or individual has been a recurring theme for the past couple of years in particular.
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;
This safety alert highlights the serious health and safety risks that poorly maintained tripod tanks pose for fuel users.
We’ve put together a summary of the latest changes to New Zealand Privacy Laws that could affect you and your business.
As a lone or remote worker, when something goes wrong and you activate an SOS, you want to know that a fast, reliable and efficient response is on the way. This is evident in the latest article from Garmin about their 5,000’th inReach SOS, a Whitewater rafting emergency.
API integration is vital for critical response monitoring of lone workers. Solutions that rely on SMS messages or Email to relay the SOS message could result in the alert being caught up in SPAM filters. Our latest blog post explains why API integration is the most reliable form of communication when it comes to saving lives.
When implementing a lone worker safety solution your first priority is the safety of your people. How do you do this while ensuring your team are on board with the solution and don’t feel that they are being watched?
While GPS location always works provided you’re in view of the sky, you may also have staff who need protection and are working in vast indoor spaces. Our latest blog post explains why a GPS solution wont work and what options are available.
