1 Jan 2018
Essex County Council (ECC) selected Lone Worker Solutions and strategic partner Mitie, the facilities management giant, to protect team members when they are working alone or out-of-sight of colleagues. ECC is one of the UK's biggest councils employing approximately 9,000 staff. Council services include education, social care, waste and recycling, transport and highways, libraries, and leisure and tourism. Many of the staff who deliver these services work by themselves or out-of-sight of colleagues and can be in challenging customer facing roles.
ECC has lone workers in many departments.
Roles with a particularly high-risk profile include those where staff
work directly with residents and businesses such as trading standards
officers, social workers, park wardens, officers who make site visits
and even librarians in some of the smaller facilities across the county.
Many of these team members are often in isolated locations, using
potentially hazardous machinery or facing aggressive and violent
behaviour from the public. The council identified all the staff roles
that included a lone-working component, conducted a risk assessment, and
established a health and safety profile for each one.
"Protection
systems like this can't prevent a problem from occurring. But when
something goes wrong, it is comforting for staff to know that if they
press the button, someone will be listening; they know that you are in
trouble, and they know where you are." Garry Fisher Corporate Health and Safety Manager, Essex County Council
SOS Fob to the rescue
Lone Worker Solutions
selected the SOS Fob as the best fit for ECC staff who wanted a discreet
device. SOS Fob is small and can be carried in a pocket or worn on a
specially developed identification badge holder, produced on demand via
3D printing.
All workers identified as
high-risk have a dedicated device. However, many staff in low-risk
roles, or who work alone occasionally, are allowed to share. Although
many suppliers don't support device-sharing, an advanced feature of Safe
Hub is that each team member has a bespoke profile which can be
‘ported' across to any device in a matter of minutes.
Smartphone app
Along with the SOS Fob,
we provided access to Safe Hub on our advanced smartphone app, so
employees who don't want to carry an extra device are still fully
protected. Safe Hub is the leading app system when it comes to providing
support on PCs, all mobile handsets, BlackBerry devices, all
smartphones (the system works seamlessly on Android, iOS and Windows)
and Android smartwatches.
Lone Worker Solutions Ltd.
http://www.loneworkersolutions.com
Email Us
T: 0161 885 2122
2c Crown Business Park
Cown Top Lane
OL11 2PU
Rochdale, Greater Manchester
United Kingdom
Lone Worker Solutions Ltd. will be exhibiting on Stand SH3880 at Safety & Health Expo 2019, 18-20 June, ExCeL, London, UK
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