Do you have a written policy identifying job positions classified as lone workers? Do you have workers with known medical conditions or other special-risk conditions?

An effective lone worker device is a worn personal safety monitor designed to sense a lack of motion, detect a fall from heights, and provide the worker with a means to manually initiate a panic alarm to call for help.

Common methods of lone-worker safety monitoring are manual check-in systems. A manual check-in system makes it someone’s responsibility to check-in with a worker — a risky method.

A lot can happen during the time between an expected check-in, creating the risk of someone checking-out when no one is expecting the check-in, which is a dangerous practice, according to Grace Industries, an expert in the life safety field.

Grace Immediate Notification Monitoring Systems immediately identify and locate a worker in distress and quickly notify your assigned monitoring attendant or supervisor. Grace systems integrate with SCADA and gas-detection systems with inputs and relay outputs to control external devices.

In addition to Grace’s traditional nonsubscription systems (graceloneworker.com), Grace now offers a new subscription-based IP internet, cellular and satellite remote monitoring service at graceconnectedsafety.com.