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How covered are your lone workers?

Eight questions, two minutes, no signup. Scored against what regulators expect and what a year of real incident data says actually matters.

1. We know exactly who works alone, including brief and after-hours periods.

You cannot control a risk you have not mapped. 'Working alone' includes the last person locking up and the first one in.

2. We have a written working-alone policy with named responsibilities.

The policy is the evidence your duty of care was considered - and the place check-in cadence and escalation become auditable.

3. Every lone worker has a way to raise an alarm without reaching for a phone.

In a confrontation, reaching for a phone can escalate the situation. A discreet trigger is what makes the alarm usable.

4. An alarm would still be raised if the worker was unconscious.

In our FY26 data, 17% of alarms were raised automatically - fall detection, missed check-ins, expired timers. Those incidents are uncovered without automatic protection.

5. Alarms are answered by someone on duty 24/7, not a colleague's phone.

34% of confirmed emergencies happen after hours. A notification to someone asleep is not a response.

6. Responders would get the worker's live location, not an address on file.

Field work happens away from registered addresses. Live location is the difference between minutes and hours.

7. Missed check-ins escalate automatically with time bounds and owners.

Escalation that depends on one person noticing fails on their day off. Good procedures run themselves.

8. Every incident leaves a time-stamped record we could hand an investigator.

After an incident, the audit trail is what a regulator, insurer or court will ask for.

Close the gaps with a 7-second monitored response.