Honest comparison · reviewed 2026-07-21

Duress vs SHEQSY.

Two different answers to lone worker safety, compared feature by feature - including where SHEQSY is genuinely the better choice. Compiled from public vendor materials; product names and trade marks belong to their owners.

Side by side

Feature comparison

	Duress	SHEQSY by SafetyCulture
Head office / primary regions	Australia · AU, NZ, UK	Australia · global app
Hardware devices	Falcon (body-worn camera), Phoenix (Bluetooth button), Eagle (4G LTE device)	App-first; supports Bluetooth buttons
Smartphone safety app	Yes - Duress App	Yes - core product
Body-worn camera with live streaming	Yes - Falcon	No
24/7 professional monitoring	Yes - accredited 24/7 monitoring centre, included as standard	Dashboard self-monitoring by default
Monitoring accreditation	ASIAL A1-graded (AU); ISO 27001:2022 certified	-
Indoor positioning	Yes - BLE beacons (Eagle)	-
Gas detection	No	No
Buy online without a sales call	Yes - configure and check out	Trial via SafetyCulture

Compiled from each vendor's public websites and documentation. "-" and "not advertised" mean the capability was not claimed in the vendor's public materials at review time; offerings change, so verify current capabilities directly. Spotted an error? Tell us and we'll fix it. Full four-vendor comparison here.

The honest read

Which one is right for you?

When SHEQSY is the right answer

A capable app-first product with strong scheduling and dashboard features, and a natural choice if your organisation already runs on SafetyCulture. By default, alarms surface to your own team's dashboards rather than an accredited monitoring centre - workable for lower-risk roles, a real gap for aggression-facing ones.

When Duress is the right answer

Choose Duress when the alarm needs a trained human, not a dashboard. Duress alerts reach the ASIAL A1-graded Duress monitoring centre with a 7-second median operator pickup, 24/7 as standard - and the wearable hardware (a body-worn camera, a Bluetooth card, a 4G device) means workers can raise an alarm without reaching for a phone. For client-facing aggression risk in healthcare, community services, government and retail, that difference is the product.

Questions

What buyers ask

What's the main difference between Duress and SHEQSY?

Who answers the alarm, and what raises it. SHEQSY is app-first and by default surfaces alarms to your own team's dashboards. Duress pairs a safety app with wearable devices and routes every alarm to an accredited 24/7 monitoring centre with a 7-second median operator pickup - as standard, not as an add-on.

When is SHEQSY the better choice?

If your organisation already runs on SafetyCulture and your lone worker risk is low - roles where a phone is always in hand and self-monitoring by your own supervisors is acceptable. SHEQSY's scheduling and dashboard features are genuinely strong.

Can Duress work app-only like SHEQSY?

Yes. The Duress App is a full product on its own - slide-to-alert, safety timers, missed check-ins - with the same 24/7 monitored response behind it. Most deployments pair it with a wearable so workers can trigger help without touching a phone.

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