The use of technology is becoming increasingly intertwined with our everyday lives, and even more so within numerous industry operations. Covid-19 has of course exacerbated this fact, highlighting the importance of technology and encouraging companies to think innovatively to overcome the ...
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Health and Safety,
Critical Alarm Management
From weekly household collections to recycling plants, the waste and recycling sector plays an important role in UK society. But given the physical labour, transport vehicles and heavy machinery involved, it is an industry that presents significant risks to workers involved....
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Lone Workers,
Critical Alarm Management,
Man-Down
Most large facilities such as water treatment sites need a decent communications system in order to keep in touch with their workers at all times. This is because problems need to be reported quickly in order to prevent serious incidents from occurring and oftentimes, detailed information will ...
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Lone Workers,
ATEX,
Critical Alarm Management
There are a large variety of health and safety issues that teachers have to keep in mind whilst going about their day, both to protect themselves and their students. When asked to make a list of potential hazards, most people would understandably list things such as scientific equipment and ...
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Schools,
Health and Safety,
Critical Alarm Management
For some time, the risk of being attacked by a student has been regarded as an occupational hazard for many educators, especially those dealing with developmentally disabled children. However, in recent years there has been a growing trend of attacks on both teachers and support staff. So much so ...
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Lone Workers,
Education,
Critical Alarm Management
Alarm systems are an essential component for the majority of businesses to ensure protection against risk and to remain compliant. From fire alarms to lone worker alerts, they are prevalent across all industries. But just having an alarm system in place isn’t enough, performance monitoring is also ...
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Lone Workers,
Health and Safety,
Critical Alarm Management
Hotels are large businesses with many different stakeholders and departments all overseeing and working in different parts of the site. Additionally, they have many guests. This means that a hotel has an extraordinarily large burden of responsibility to ensure not just the safety of its staff, but ...
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Lone Workers,
Hotels,
Safety Management,
Telecoms,
Critical Alarm Management
