The rationale for using control rooms goes way beyond that of ensuring a business is getting the most out of its staff; control rooms are central to ensuring alarms are managed and escalated effectively when a safe working environment is at risk. So what happens when the ability to respond ...
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Critical Alarm Management
Historically, the transport industry has primarily used analogue radio as a preferred method of communication across drivers and fleet managers. As technology has advanced over the years, these systems have become outdated and overtaken by digital solutions that provide a more reliable means of ...
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Lone Workers,
Health and Safety
For any organisation, an incident causing a loss of ability to properly deliver service to an end user can be disastrous. This is especially the case in the IT sector, where downtime can cause major losses and effect multiple aspects of an end user’s operations, resulting in financial losses to the ...
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Lone Workers,
Critical Alarm Management
Workplace incidents and emergencies will vary significantly from business to business, yet the process of managing each incident will often follow a similar procedure. No matter whether an incident occurs within a factory or office environment, the basic process will often involve reporting it to a ...
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Lone Workers,
Health and Safety,
Critical Alarm Management
When it comes to providing a warning system for a business or other entity, the most straightforward way to do it is by using an alarm system. These can be broadly divided in to two types: 'critical alarms' and 'standard alarms'. Each has their own advantages but also comes with an associated set ...
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Critical Alarm Management
It's a fact of life that some jobs have more risk associated with them than others, and for lone workers, these varying risks are heightened, simply because they do not automatically have the support of work colleagues and management to hand should anything go wrong. To protect lone workers, ...
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Lone Workers
Nowadays, the vast majority of businesses and public sector bodies make sure to have some way to notify employees in the event that there is some kind of problem. This can be a safety-related emergency such as a fire at a facility, or it can be a problem with production equipment or related ...
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Critical Alarm Management
