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.
In March 2017 the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council tragically lost one of their staff in a vehicle incident. Like all accidents, it was unexpected and the outcome was most severe. The loss of a life, a dad to two wee girls, a husband, friend and son.
Tonkin + Taylor were already using the inReach device. They have staff who are often out of cell cover, and at times, overnight.
We protect a number of libraries around NZ. They have a shared panic pendant that the staff know they need to clip to their waist before they go and investigate any disturbance away from the main desk where the pendant is kept.
Braking down hours from civilisation can cause all kinds of headaches.
Whanganui District Council had been thoroughly researching products on the market and came to the decision that the Blackline Safety products from Guardian Angel were best suited to the risks they wanted to mitigate.
Mondiale Warehousing called us a month ago enquiring about a solution for staff who sometimes have to leave the main building and go into a second warehouse, on their own.
When Sharon Ayres of Sacred Hill Vineyards started the search for a technology solution which would protect Sacred Hills lone workers she wasn’t quite sure where to start.