Lone Worker Protection

Lone worker protection is quite simply "anybody that works alone that needs to be protected"

Many lone workers are self employed or work away from their business base. They come from a wide range of activities such as medicine, transport, security, hospitality, fisheries, and forestry - not forgetting the elderly and the young, county councils, inspectors, facility management, auctioneering, banking, pharmaceuticals, retail and late night stores and many others where people are quite literally "on their own".

As employers we have the same responsibilities for all our employees but we have to take extra precautions to ensure the safety of those working alone.

A good health and safety risk assessment may highlight some additional areas where the employer could reasonably be expected to remove or minimise the danger to their lone workers.

The G4S lone worker protection systems send an instant alert to our Alarm Receiving Centre whenever the carrier is in trouble. Inbuilt GPS technologies define the location of the carrier and identifies their exact position on our mapping software systems.

In life critical situations live sound is transmitted to the ARC allowing the carrier to describe the particulars of their problem. In-built motion detection will also trigger an alert if the carrier becomes inactive.