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What Can You Do With a SafetyLine License?
SafetyLine is designed to support flexible workforces, from as few as a handful to hundreds or even thousands of users. For any organization using SafetyLine, they purchase a number of licenses. Typically, one per Lone Worker, but some prefer to buy extra, planning for expansion or for unexpected contingencies.
Cold Weather Safety for your Phone
Phones are more an essential part of many of our daily routines. For some of us, they’re essential tools we need to perform our jobs, and sometimes our only means of contact with anyone else.
How to Get Results From Your Safety Audits
If you’re committed to safety in your workplace, it’s important to constantly revise your safety policies. The best way to ensure that your safety policies are effective is with a safety audit. In this article, we’ll review why audits are important to your company’s safety plans, and how you can successfully audit your workplace for safety.
The Workplace Benefits of First Aid Training
Not every job is dangerous, but every employer is responsible for the safety of their employees in the workplace. One of the best ways for employers to meet their legal and moral obligations to their employees is to provide first aid training to employees. Having employees trained provides benefits that aren’t always obvious.
Beat the Heat!
When summertime rolls around, it’s easy to forget that even the clearest weather and sunshine can create hazards when working outdoors. If you find yourself working alone outside, you’ll need to take extra precautions as any potential problems are made worse when you’re away from help.
Safety as an Investment
When you think about a safe business, you should think about more than safety as something you can provide for your workers at a cost to yourself. Safety, when done right, can make your workers safe and will make your business safer from a financial perspective. This transforms safety into a two-way street that has serious beneficial implications for your organization.
The Benefits of Software as a Service
Scalable technology has become more important than ever for small and medium sized businesses. In a global market, businesses need the ability to place employees anywhere at any time. To meet this demand, companies are increasingly turning to service providers and purchasing software as a service (SaaS) for their technology needs.
Signs of a Heart Attack and Heart Stroke in the Workplace: Do You Know the Warning Signs?
Every 7 minutes, someone in Canada dies from heart disease or stroke. If a co-worker was experiencing symptoms of a stroke or heart attack at a job site, would you be able to recognize the signs and take action?
Lone Worker Safety in the Oil & Gas Industry
Balancing lone worker safety and budget can seem like mixing oil and water, but it doesn't have to. In this article, we look at how oil and gas companies can keep their budget in check while keeping workers safe.
5 Ways to Jump-start a Safety Meeting
If you want a successful safety meeting, it’s important to get the attention of your staff early. The best way to engage an audience is to show them how your topic relates to themselves. When you’re talking about safety, the best way to get buy-in is to show your staff the repercussions of bad practices.
Is Your Panic Button Putting You At Risk?
If you’re currently relying on a panic button for your personal safety, or if you’re thinking about investing in a panic button, you may want to think again. Is the reason you’re using a panic button because it’s the best way to keep safe, or is it because it’s what you’ve always used?
Essential Tips for Avoiding Slips, Trips, and Falls in the Workplace
According to OSHA, slips trips and falls are second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities, resulting in 15% of all accidental deaths. Read below for 6 tips that will help you avoid slips, trips, and falls in your workplace.
The Risks of Using Call Centres for Emergency Responses
When it comes to finding a safety solution for your workers, you have an important choice to make. One of the traditional methods for handling emergency responses is the traditional call centre, either internal or external. With a call centre comes the question of reliability, and the greatest question of all, “am I really safe?”
5 Steps for Improving Your Hazard Assessments
With the criminal code in Canada revised to make companies or individuals criminally liable for not taking safety precautions, it is more important than ever to be aware of hazards in the workplace and to be scrupulous about hazard assessments. Don't risk unnecessary prosecution - here are 5 steps you can take to ensure your workplace hazard assessment is as comprehensive as possible.
Is Safety a Priority in Your Organization?
Safety is about more than just policies, equipment, and training. A safe work space should make safety a priority throughout the organization. In this article, we'll look creating the kind of safety culture that your employees will want to follow.
Office Safety: Designing a Safe and Functional Office
Ergonomic hazards can not only affect the worker: the employer can suffer slower productivity, lower morale in staff, and higher disability and insurance claims.
5 Tips to Claim Your Workers Compensation
When you work for someone, you and your employer agree that you will receive wage replacement and medical benefits if an injury happens. In return, you give up your right to sue your employer for any negligence in the workplace. Workers' Compensation is something that is mandatory for every employee and here are some tips for how to claim it.
Does Safety Create a Productive and Safe Work Environment?
When it comes to investing in workplace safety, the perceived negative impact on productivity is a key concern. The truth is, a safe workplace is often a more productive and profitable one! In this article, we'll look at how safety and productivity go together in the workplace, and how safety can actually help your bottom line.
The Myth of Fleet Management Safety
Depending on the priorities of the company and the industry they are in, fleet management and lone worker monitoring systems are two important services that organizations should consider. However, many companies don’t realize the difference between a fleet management system and a lone worker monitoring system. This article will help you learn about those differences to help you decide what is best for your organization.
The Importance of Future-Proofing Your Technology
Future-proofing hard goods is easy – take the hard hat or googles you might wear to a construction site. It's likely they will wear out before advancements in technology make them obsolete. In this case, good construction is the best way to keep your equipment valuable into the future. Technology is a moving target, so choosing the right technology requires more strategy.