Motion Features For Lone Workers: Fall Detection and More
SafetyLine leverages advanced technologies on your current smartphone, such as motion detection, creating a truly dynamic lone worker solution for your team.
Motion sensors are one of the important pieces of technology that SafetyLine has embraced to protect its lone workers, allowing these people to stay connected and engaged with their employer or monitor.
What are motion sensors?
Motion sensors are electronic devices that can detect and measure physical movement. Motion sensors can be found in several commonly used devices, including smartphones and tablets. With the proliferation of smart devices and AI technology, motion sensors are now very common, becoming more and more advanced. The primary motion sensors on a smartphone or tablet are:
Accelerator
This motion sensor detects movement and helps the screen quickly switch from landscape to portrait views as needed.
Gyroscope
This motion sensor works with the accelerator to help the device be responsive, adaptive, and sensitive to movements, depending on the safety objectives and software.
What are safety motion features?
Our safety motion features use these sensors with other technology to detect a range of movement and impact on your device that could signify a serious work accident.
Depending on your occupational health and safety legislation and regulations, these motion features are also effective when maintaining safety compliance. Safety motion features can address many workplace safety challenges and mitigate a number of occupational safety hazards.
How do they benefit lone worker safety?
Motion features benefit lone worker safety by requesting emergency help when they are unconscious and unable to. They are a constant lifeline, regardless of the workplace and environmental conditions, as well as the physical and mental state of the lone worker.
Additionally, there are a number of other benefits, some long-term, that can have a positive impact on your overall work safety record, your work culture, your team’s productivity, and your well-being. These include:
Monitor workers’ safety
Motion features can monitor a worker’s safety, detecting any movement that may mean a workplace accident. These features will send the necessary information to determine if the worker is experiencing an emergency, where they are experiencing an emergency, and in the case of SafeyLine, other valuable details such as work circumstances and the employee’s profile.
Cost savings
To experience the benefits of SafetyLine, you are not required to purchase any additional devices. Using your current phone and tablet’s motion sensors allows workers to be protected easily and seamlessly without needing to carry additional physical devices.
Valuable data
Motion sensors collect valuable information that can be used by apps to benefit you in a range of ways using health and safety apps. SafetyLine can create useful reports that present valuable data which can be used to prevent future accidents and injuries. By looking at your organization's current occupational health and safety data, you can proactively take steps to ensure that future accidents do not occur.
SafetyLine motion features
SafetyLine’s motion features play an integral role in keeping lone and remote workers safe and connected. SafetyLine motion features complement its other tools like safety check-ins, location tracking, panic button, and two-way communication.
Shake-for-emergency
Motion features can also be used when the worker is conscious. SafetyLine provides a shake-for-emergency feature in which an emergency will be signaled when the device is vigorously shaken. This feature is effective in situations involving violence/harassment or if the worker requires immediate help.
Man-down alarm
Man-down detection is a feature that will send a panic emergency and alert safety monitors if an employee has not moved for a certain period. For example, if a worker has experienced a heart attack or a head injury and is not moving, SafetyLine will help get them the help they need.
Fall and impact detection
Slips, trips, and falls are consistently the top reasons for work injuries yearly. SafetyLine’s fall detection will trigger an immediate panic emergency when the app identifies an impact that could cause injury.
No motion
If an employee is unconscious and injured, Safetyline will also detect the period of non-movement, alerting all contacts.
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