https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/ Data-driven posts on workplace and lone worker safety from the monitoring data behind Duress. en-au https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/community-workers-9pm-problem/ https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/community-workers-9pm-problem/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Between 9pm and midnight, 16.7% of community-sector duress activations are confirmed emergencies. A year of monitoring data on when outreach and support work actually turns dangerous. https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/retail-danger-clock/ https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/retail-danger-clock/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retail is the largest source of duress activations in our monitoring data, and its risk has a schedule: evening trade and the hours after midnight confirm as real emergencies at more than double the morning rate. https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/two-kinds-of-danger/ https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/two-kinds-of-danger/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retail workers press the button; government and community workers set timers. What a year of trigger data says about matching a safety system to the shape of the risk. https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/what-seven-seconds-buys/ https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/what-seven-seconds-buys/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A 7-second median operator pickup sounds like a marketing number. Here's what the distribution behind it looks like, and why the tail matters more than the median. https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/how-people-call-for-help/ https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/how-people-call-for-help/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nearly half of duress alarms are a long button press. A tenth are a fall detected. The full breakdown of how 20,433 alarms were raised, and what it means for choosing a device. https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/after-hours-risk-lone-workers/ https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/after-hours-risk-lone-workers/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 22% of duress activations happen between 6pm and 6am, but 34% of confirmed emergencies do. A year of monitoring-centre data on when lone workers actually need help. https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/alarms-nobody-pressed/ https://www.duress.com/en-au/blog/alarms-nobody-pressed/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 17.7% of duress activations in FY26 were automatic: fall detection, missed check-ins and expired safety timers firing when the worker couldn't press anything. What that means for how you design a safety system.