When it comes to improving the overall occupational health and safety within your workplace, personal safety alarms can be a very effective and valuable safety measure with, as you will read further, several significant benefits to your organization.

Panic buttons are an important occupational safety technology goes by many names: duress alarm, emergency signal, SOS alarm, personal alarm, alert button, panic alarm and most commonly, panic button. The reason there are so many names and monikers for this safety device is they are so widely used in a wide range of industries and work. Regardless of what they are called, they all are intended to one thing: raise an alarm in emergency situations when an employee requires immediate help.