Lone Workers
Whether nationally travelling or working in a more defined and localised area, your lone working staff may encounter risk.
The job they do, where it's being carried out or the time of day/night can influence social (e.g. attack, verbal abuse) or environmental (e.g. falls or incapacitation) risks.
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Benefits to Employer
Risk Reduction
Employers achieve multiple cost and risk-reduction benefits by implementing a solution to protect their employees and reduce their risks whilst working alone. Reducing risk and helping workers be more risk aware can help organisations also meet their moral and legal Duty of Care, along with other legislative requirements.
Employee Wellbeing and Safety
Implementing a monitoring and safety solution provides employees with peace of mind, knowing if an incident occurred, they can be immediately located. Or that proactively, if risk is known to exist, their employer can advise them of its existence. This in turn, increases productivity as employees feel safe within their workplace and valued by their employer.
Benefits to Employee
Immediate Support in an Alert Situation
Vismo Apps offers a Red Alert capability, enabling immediate multiple contacts in the event of an emergency. Lone workers are provided peace of mind that their employer can be rapidly informed and a plan of response appropriately managed, even if risks change.
Peace of Mind
Providing peace of mind for Lone Workers, knowing the Red Alert button could be simply and immediately activated if required. Proactive messaging from their employer about known risks in their vicinity also enables the lone worker to be better equipped for the task ahead.
These are just some of the benefits of Vismo Lone Worker, talk to us to find out more
Features & Benefits
Red Alert
When activated, notifications are instantly sent to the necessary teams via in-App, Email, SMS* and/or Phone Call*. Audio is automatically recorded on the device when activated and sent back to the Vismo Secure Portal for security teams or a 24/7 Alarm Receiving Centre to understand the situation at hand.
Incident Management
When an incident occurs, locate Lone Workers instantly within the vicinity of the impact area or close by. Use Incident Management as part of your action plan to help safeguard those at risk. Bolt-On options for the inclusion of a 24/7 Alarm Receiving Centre are also available if you'd prefer to outsource incident management.
Mass Notification
​Securely provide immediate & critical information to employees within a specific geographic area, a large group or to selected individuals. Find out employees safety status by using Vismo’s Notify end to end secure in-app messaging and deploy client defined user responses. A full audit trail of send, delivery and read is available. Additional costed options to send via SMS and/or automated voice are also available.
Assignments
Create bespoke and flexible assignments for Lone Workers on the Vismo Secure Portal, the individuals receive a notification of the assignment and have two-way messaging capabilities with the Vismo Portal to record actions or progress of assignment.
Privacy Mode
To protect privacy, Lone Workers can enter Privacy Mode when they have finished their work and are returning home, whilst still maintaining the Red Alert feature in cases of emergencies. Alternatively, Vismo's scheduled tracking capability can help you pre-define those hours or days when locating staff is important, and those that are not.
Wellbeing
When employees are working alone, it is more important than ever to check on their wellbeing and provide the appropriate support. The Vismo Wellbeing feature can send a notification to ask employees how they are feeling, they can select 'Good', 'OK' or 'Not Good'. Employers can add options for an employee if they select 'Not Good' such as calling a helpline, requesting a follow up or remaining anonymous.
Active, Passive & Scheduled Tracking
Whether you plan to actively locate your staff for productivity or operational gains, or locate only in the event of a safety concern, Vismo is flexible. We can even enable you to switch between active, passive or no tracking based on your workers predefined schedules.
The Vismo App
To protect the safety of lone working employees, the Vismo App can be easily downloaded onto an individual's smartphones or tablet or alternatively, managed via your MDM. Once activated and based on licence type deployed, the Vismo App offers a number of features to better equip your employees and their safety.
Ease of use and highly optimsed location and battery performance are always key focal points but there's many more benefits to Vismo. The Vismo app has multiple features such as Red Alert which provides peace of mind for lone workers, knowing managers or 24/7 monitoring centre can be immediately alerted if an incident occurred. To accompany Vismo's built in features' we also work with Riskline, Dataminr and others to actively monitor and push geo-relevant intelligence feeds to quickly communicate details of high-impact events and emerging risks.
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The Vismo Portal & Monitor App
The Vismo Secure Portal enables designated administrators or a 24/7 monitoring centre to respond to safety incidents raised by your lone workers. The Vismo Secure Portal is securely accessed via your web browser as well as through the Vismo Monitor App, available on iOS or Android smartphones.
Active Alerts
When a user activates the Red Alert, administrators are automatically alerted via SMS, Email and through the Vismo Monitor App, ensuring immediate support can be provided.
Incident Management
Should an incident occur, administrators and elected points of contact can view the incident area and identify any staff in the area on the Secure Portal and manage a prioritised response.
The Monitor App
The Vismo Monitor App delivers notifications and alerts directly to your authorised administrators' mobile devices. All of the important details are displayed such as the users last known location, phone number, email address and an audio recording from when the alert was activated.
App Configuration
​Depending on the Vismo licence deployed, organisations have options to change the look and feel of the Vismo App to make it specific to your organisation. A company logo can be uploaded, the tiles are interchangeable and company websites and numbers can be added.
Monitoring Options
Vismo provides a completely client-flexible approach to the monitoring of lone, home or hybrid workers.
Many of our clients have the ability and/or desire to self-monitor their workers and to manage and respond directly to any incidents raised. Vismo is able to facilitate this approach by enabling the use of its Secure Portal directly within the client's monitoring centre or security department. Vismo is also able to offer an outsourced approach to 24/7 monitoring if that is preferred. For more details, click here.
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Case Studies
For many years, Vismo has helped Fortune 500, FTSE 100 companies, NGOs, and Charities better protect their employees. Vismo is committed to helping organisations ensure they have the correct measures in place to protect employees no matter what their working environment, or where they are in the world.
Read our case studies to find out how we have supported some of our clients in numerous verticals and helped them better protect their employees, respond rapidly to incidents, and remove risk. This selection of case studies displays the commitment & passion of Vismo to locate and protect employees in a wide range of situations, from globally traveling employees to community-based lone workers and home-based hybrid workers.
Apps & Devices
Choosing the right solution for your workforce will need to take account of the type of work they do, where they operate and the risks they may face. For many, the Vismo App will be the best and most flexible solution but if you’d rather not use Vismo’s highly optimised Apps, then consider Vismo’s range of dedicated, fit for purpose devices that are an alternative way to ensure employee safety can be monitored, no matter how remote the area is.
See How Vismo Works
This brief video summarises how Vismo's highly optimised technology works in real-time to keep your travelling employees safe. Watch it to find out more.
See Lone Worker in Action
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