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A lone worker is a person who performs tasks in remote locations, away from supervisors or co-workers. People who work in these conditions are often in higher-risk positions where they could face immobilizing injuries, further separating them from essential help. Monitoring these types of employees is essential in ensuring worker safety and reducing liabilities.
Any worker who is exposed to risk in work conditions needs to have some sort of monitoring method to keep them safe. Depending on the method used to monitor their safety, blue collar workers who experience life-threatening events can face extreme injury and even death. In order for companies to protect their employees and reduce liability, they need to demonstrate that they took reasonable measures to ensure employee safety. Implementing a personal emergency response service (PERS) can do just that. Because of their fall-detection capabilities and single-action button, PERS devices can provide invaluable backup a fraction of the cost of sending two employees to every job.
There are several methods used to monitor the safety of employees. Some of those methods are:
Depending on the environmental conditions that lone workers frequent, they may need devices that track gas levels, falls, have panic buttons and are voice activated. Considering the items listed above, there are several pros and cons to each.
Simply put, phone-based check-in systems are bulky and inefficient. They require additional, routine actions by the workers themselves and a person at the headquarter location.
Buddy systems function best when the work already requires more than a single person to perform. In situations where work only requires a single person, this method makes the operation much more expensive.
Smartphone applications on the other hand can be incredibly economical. Their hidden presence often offers voice-activated technology that only needs to function when the user activates it. That is, if it functions better than Siri. We already know that the majority of people don’t trust or even like virtual assistants, however.
The last method of monitoring is by using dedicated, specially-designed monitoring devices. These may be able to track gas levels, detect falls and only require the press of a single button to activate. This method is perhaps the best combination available. It is an easy-to-use, low-cost solution that serves its function well. One type of device, which is typically used to monitor seniors who want to retain their independence, can double as a monitoring system for lone workers. Better known as PERS devices, they perform the function that most lone workers require.
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