Staff of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust have a lone worker safety monitoring product.
The trust brings together social care and health services for adults of working age with severe and enduring mental health problems, and provides NHS services for the elderly and mentally ill.
The agreement for 400 units with the trust and Argyll will ensure NHS staff can be monitored while at work thus minimising risk through the use of the CommuniCare service. A lone worker is any person who works alone without close or direct supervision. Lone workers in the NHS sector include community midwives, ambulance crews, parking attendants and neighbourhood wardens.
CommuniCare is a facility which tracks the whereabouts of lone workers and enables them to flag high risk activities. Urgent assistance can be summoned using the system if difficulties are encountered. If a hazardous situation arises, users of CommuniCare can discreetly alert Argyllโs operations centre at the press of a button. The operations centre is monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Using the bespoke safety solutions of Argyll Communicare aids compliance with current health and safety legislation and fully meets employersโ duty of care,โ says Tom Morton, managing director of Argyll.
Risks range from abuse, violence or personal robbery to physical injury, sudden illness, machinery accidents or chemical hazards. All are made more likely or considerably more hazardous when a person is without colleagues to supervise, help or report in the event of an incident.
โArgyll currently monitors in excess of 17, 000 lone workers exposed to daily health and safety risks using a number of safety monitoring and location mapping solutions,โ adds Tom Morton. โArgyll is committed to enabling clients to operate safe working practices. We have over ten yearsโ experience in the field of lone worker safety and are trusted by national corporations, charities, local authorities and Government Departments throughout the UK.โ
