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fulfill your duty of care and raise staff morale
with an i-traks™ lone worker system
A 2002 study of workplace violence showed that 1.3 million people in the UK each year are attacked at work, leading to 3 million days off, and that's increasing year on year at 5% year on year (BBC). Given 29.1 million people in work, that's 3.4% of us.
The chance of you or your employees being caught in a workplace violence incident is greatly increased in particular industries. The following workers are at greater risk:
- taxi drivers
- health visitors
- home helps, care assistants and cleaners
- meter readers
- delivery and postal workers
- nursing staff
- parking attendants
- shop and service sector workers
- transport workers
Diplomatic staff and VIPs are also at risk.
A TUC poll in 2002 showed for the first time workplace violence to be in the top five workplace safety concerns (TUC source).
In addition to workplace violence, lone workers face many hazards made more dangerous because they are alone. Just being ill can be dangerous if there's no-one to help. But particularly:
- electrical and maintenance workers
- farm, forestry and horticultural workers
- lab workers
- sewer and public works staff
face alone all sorts of hazards such as animal attack, chemical accident, electric shock, fire, gas, fall and other physical dangers.
The TUC provides a number of factsheets on the issue, and one of the solutions they suggest is the issuing of staff with some form of panic alarm.
Doing something visible to help your staff is likely to improve morale, help you attract and keep good staff, improve your image, and help you ensure fairness in your workplace, all of which should help you cut costs and improve profits. It's likely to save you money in compensation claims too.
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, which became law in the UK on the 6 April 2008, also means companies and organisations can be found guilty of corporate manslaughter where serious failures in the management of health and safety result in a fatality.
There is a large variety of different systems to help, from under-the-counter pushbuttons to walkie-talkie radios and some care is required to ensure the system is suitable for your needs. Few, if any, provide precise location information about the person who pressed the button (but ours does). One system we've seen, for instance, allows a community nurse to press a panic button, but it's then up to the office staff to check their roster to work out where they 'should' be.
Our solution provides accurate location information down to 4 metres and real time data, so you can watch the location of many employees on one (or more) management screen(s) and you can set up location based alerts. Location information is stored for up to a month forming a long breadcrumb trail.
The source of this location information is a GPS tracking device. We offer many options, i-traks™ Ranger II, i-traks™ Lite, i-traks™ Android, i-traks™ Blackberry, i-traks™ Symbian (Nokia) and i-traks™ Mobile.
i-traks™ Ranger II and i-traks™ Lite are a small, wearable tracking devices that provides real-time location information with GPS accuracy to a central computer. It incorporates a single-button personal, wireless panic alarm and a movement sensor so you can tell if they've stopped moving or removed the tracker.
i-traks™ Blackberry, i-traks™ Symbian and i-traks™ Mobile are affordable, downloadable software from i-traks limited that can turn a Android, Blackberry, Symbian (Nokia) and Windows Mobile 5+ with GPS capability into a tracking device.
All devices feed geographic data to our server which can be displayed for you on i-traks™ Console software running on an Internet connected Windows PC.
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