Code5®
At a Glance
- Managers can go home feeling confident their staff have completed their day's work safely. Patrick Weil, Operations Director, Kone Plc
Our 24/7 response team are there to protect high-risk workers in dangerous situations.
As an employer, it's your legal duty to ensure all of your staff are safe but protecting workers in high-risk situations isn't easy. Keeping your employees safe can be time consuming, difficult and expensive.
Code5® Lone Worker Protection can ensure the safety of your high risk workers.
SitexOrbis have found a solution. Code5® is an affordable, easy-to-use protection service, which uses mobile phones to connect to a 24/7 response centre that monitors dangerous situations and tracks the movements of the worker at risk.
- Acts as a stopgap between the worker and the emergency services.
- Protects worker's welfare and gives them confidence in dangerous situations.
- Complies with new health and safety legal obligations for employers of their responsibility to protect workers at risk.
Benefits
- Accessible Code5® works on any mobile phone, PDA, BlackBerry or Symbian Smartphone. Easy to use One dedicated button activates 'SOS'.
- Easy to set up One phone call to sign up.
- Affordable Up to 70% cheaper than other protection systems as no additional mobile device or line rental is necessary.
- Discreet As opposed to making a 999 call.
- No 'false alarms' Calling 999 could be a false alarm if an incident does not happen.
- True protection Allows response centre to track worker's exact location via LBS or GPS, as well as listen in on what is happening.
- Bespoke Pre-agreed emergency procedures.
- Simple to maintain Online management reports.
How does it work?
- A lone worker in distress simply presses a button assigned to Code5® on their mobile.
- This opens a two-way voice channel to the 24/7 response centre.
- The user's position is obtained by LBS (and GPS if GPS enabled) and plotted on detailed maps.
- SitexOrbis operators will then monitor the conversation and track the worker's movements.
- Users are able to summon help without the need to speak, which could alert others and put the worker in even more danger.
- The operators follow pre-agreed emergency procedures.
- Emergency calls are recorded on DVD, and are admissible in court.
For many workers, it is simply the stress of feeling unprotected in a high-risk situation that can make the job impossible to complete effectively.
Why is it needed?
- Responsibility Employers have a responsibility and moral obligation to look after the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees.
- Higher risks Employers now have more staff working remotely, visiting clients or patients in peoples own homes or at remote locations.
- Legislation Corporate Homicide and Manslaughter Act 2008, and Health & Safety (Offences) Act 2008.
- Productivity gain Staff will be more efficient and productive if they know they are safe.
Consequences of attacks
If safety laws are not met, there are strict penalties. For breaches of general duties under the HSW Act,perpetrators will receive a fine of up to £20,000 and/or 12 months imprisonment from the Magistrates Court.
And for employees, the consequences of attack are far reaching. They may suffer from:
- Stress, anxiety, fear and depression.
- Stress-related heath problems.
- Physiological problems.
- Low morale and loss of confidence.
- Physical harm, injury, fatality.
