The category, explained
Personal safety alarms, explained.
A personal safety alarm is a device a person carries to call for help. Consumer versions are sirens designed to startle and deter; workplace versions are silent duress alarms that send live location to a monitored response. For an employer's duty of care, the difference matters: noise hopes someone nearby reacts, while a monitored alarm guarantees someone answers. Ours does in a median of seven seconds.
Siren alarms vs monitored alarms
The consumer personal alarm is a keyring siren: pull the pin and it emits a loud tone to startle an attacker and attract attention. It costs little and needs no subscription, but it depends entirely on someone being nearby, willing, and able to help, and it announces itself to the aggressor.
A workplace personal safety alarm inverts both properties. It is silent, so triggering it does not escalate the confrontation, and it is answered by design: the alarm opens a case with accredited 24/7 monitoring, an operator sees the worker's live location and hears the situation, and escalates to emergency services when needed. Nothing is left to whoever happens to be passing.
Which one a workplace actually needs
For an individual walking to their car, a siren is better than nothing. For an employer, work health and safety law expects identified risks to be controlled, and a control that depends on a passer-by is hard to defend after an incident. A monitored personal safety alarm produces the two things a duty of care needs: a guaranteed response, and a time-stamped record of it.
The strongest workplace setups add the protections a siren cannot offer at all: fall detection, safety timers for lone visits, and missed check-ins, so the alarm fires even when the worker cannot pull any pin.