Lone worker monitoring is a system that enables businesses to monitor the safety of employees working alone in hazardous conditions. This technology can take many forms, from mobile apps and dedicated monitors like wearables and smart watches, all the way up to wearable devices designed specifically to monitor them. Lone worker monitoring plays an integral part in workplace safety by helping companies fulfill their legal duty of care to safeguard workers. At home or the office, employees increasingly work alone - either from home or alone in an office setting. National Safety Council's non-profit safety advocate group advocates that digital tools like mobile apps, GPS tracking and panic alarms have proven useful in protecting workers from potential harm; however these should be supplemented with human elements, such as emergency response services for optimal protection. One way of accomplishing this goal is through employing a lone worker solution with an integrated 24/7 emergency response service, allowing employees to instantly connect to a live operator should an incident arise - providing peace of mind knowing someone will always be ready to assist them when needed. At the core of any good lone worker monitoring solution is ease of use. A complicated or confusing user interface could dissuade employees from using it correctly, jeopardizing its effectiveness. An accessible design will encourage employees to embrace it as part of their safety measure, increasing trustworthiness among workers using it properly. Businesses should take note of their system's uptime and functionality when making purchasing decisions. A high uptime percentage ensures that alerts or delays in responding to emergencies won't go undetected, while high performance will make for greater reliability when working solo. Some solutions also offer self-monitored options, so organizations can manage tasks and alerts themselves without the help of any designated supervisors. While this option may be the least costly one, it places significant responsibility on designated supervisors to respond immediately when incidents arise. With Safepoint for example, managers have complete freedom in terms of being hands-on or hands-off as desired and all alerts can be managed either via desktop portal or app access. Emergency Response System As well as its other features, a good lone worker monitoring system should allow employees to periodically check in with monitoring operatives to confirm their safety. This can be done via text, two-way radio, wearable technology or simply calling them up directly - this will create a sense of routine for lone workers as well as allow supervisors to easily identify issues that arise throughout their shift such as power tool noise or whistling/tapping on tank walls that might arise during working hours.
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