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Critical Safety Technologies for Your Mobile Workforce
At around 1 a.m., a home hospice worker had just pronounced her patient deceased. The patient’s husband, who had been drinking, was holding a large knife and screaming as he approached the worker. What did she do-
When Seconds Count… Reducing Injury Severity in the Workplace
The utilities and energy industries have strong safety cultures and pride themselves on promoting and supporting safety in their organization. Yet, despite remarkable gains in workplace safety, there are still an alarming number of fatal and non-fatal injuries on the job.
Addressing the Real Risks of Violence Towards Home Healthcare Workers
Give employees the tools & training to avoid workplace violence.
NAHC Report: Workplace Violence and Reducing Turnover of Home Health Employees
Developing a robust safety program for your mobile workforce has been proven to reduce healthcare worker stress and turnover.
House of Hope Partnership
House of Hope, a leader in the treatment and support of those with substance abuse and co-occurring mental health conditions, successfully implements AlertGPS safety technology platform for their clients. Click here to see how the House of...
AlertGPS Technology Supports Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Success
Working with the House of Hope team, AlertGPS customized their award winning safety platform so that it allows House of Hope counselors to proactively monitor key aspects of their patients’ activities, like getting to work on time, while providing a critical communications link to House of Hope staff.
IoT Technology is Helping Keep Mobile Workers Safe
On Saturday was World Day for Safety and Health at Work. But “at work” doesn’t just mean workers in brick and mortar buildings. More and more workers are mobile. By 2020, the mobile worker population in the U.S. is projected to hit 105.4 million, representing 72.3% of...
Working Alone
A worker is considered “working alone”, when they are the only worker present at a worksite, cannot be seen or heard by another worker, and/or where assistance is not readily available in the event of an injury, threat or illness. Keep in mind, even when multiple...
AlertGPS Showcases Home Health Care Safety Solution
Over 45,000 Health IT professionals, clinicians and executives from around the world gathered in Vegas last week for the 2018 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition to solve some of our biggest health information and technology challenges – all at one time, all in one...
Preventing Violence at Work
In a quiet suburb outside of Atlanta, on a balmy August day in 2014 that seemed exactly like any other, a telecommunication worker paused on a residential street. This worker saw a person approaching his company vehicle, which was still in drive. He kept his foot on...
Why “Stay Calm” Is Not a Crisis-Response Plan
It's easy to tell people to "stay calm" in the event of an emergency. We hear the "stay calm" message so frequently that it has turned into a meme, a running joke. "Remain calm in the event of a water landing," we're told. "Tornado warning in effect; remain calm, move...
Mass Notification Systems and Mobile Workers
What is a Mass Notification System? Simply put, a mass notification system is a unified system that allows you (the employer) to broadcast one-way messages and notifications to a large group of people simultaneously in an emergency or other time-sensitive situation....