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The numbers, the quotes, the assets.

Duress publishes first-party data on lone-worker safety because no one else in the industry shows theirs. Everything here is free to use with attribution. For interviews, the underlying methodology, or a custom data cut, email trav@duress.com.

Headline figures

From the FY26 report

20,433Monitored duress activations, FY26
815Confirmed emergencies (one every 10.7 hours)
7sMedian operator pickup
94.2%Answered within 30 seconds

Source: Duress, State of Lone Worker Safety FY26 (2026-07-22). Full report and methodology.

Attributable quote

Cleared for use

Nobody in this industry publishes their numbers, so we published ours. When a frontline worker hits duress, the only thing that matters is how fast a human answers, and ours do in a median of seven seconds. That is the standard the whole industry should be measured against.

— Trav Heaven, Founder & CEO, Duress

Boilerplate

About Duress, in one paragraph

Duress is a workplace safety company protecting more than 20,000 frontline and lone-worker teams across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Founded in Melbourne in 2016, Duress combines wearable duress devices and a safety app with accredited 24/7 monitored emergency response, with a median of seven seconds to a live operator on every alert. Duress publishes first-party data on lone-worker safety because no one else in the industry shows their numbers.

Assets

Report, image and logos

  • State of Lone Worker Safety (FY26)

    The full first-party data report, free to cite with attribution.

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  • Report summary card (1200×630)

    Branded image with the headline figures, for article use.

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  • Duress logo (SVG)

    Primary wordmark, vector.

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  • Duress logo, reversed (SVG)

    White wordmark for dark backgrounds.

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Fact sheet

The basics

Founded
2016, Melbourne, Australia
Protecting
20,000+ frontline and lone-worker teams
Regions
Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Monitoring
Accredited 24/7 (ASIAL A1), 7-second median pickup
Products
Falcon, Phoenix, Eagle, the Duress App, Halo
ABN
11 613 710 026

Media contact

Interviews with Trav Heaven (Founder & CEO), methodology detail, and region-specific data cuts on request.

This is what answering in 7 seconds looks like, at scale.

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