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News Release from: OmegaIP | Subject: Lone worker protection survey
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 November 2006
OmegaIP lone worker protection survey
Latest survey from OmegaIP shows that 21% of those surveyed had no sort of monitoring system in place for lone workers, 42% indicated that the organization simply supplied a mobile phone!
The latest survey from OmegaIP shows that 39% of organisations are aware of verbal threats to lone workers in the last 12 months with 28% of these reporting up to 10 incidents Of the people surveyed 36% were aware of physical threats to workers in the last 12 months and 31% were also aware of unsupervised accidents to lone workers in the last 12 months
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 29 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Respondents were asked to identify what types of lone workers they had with the most popular at 31% being off site, and a close second 30% being out of hour's workers, such as shift staff and late office workers.
Those polled were also asked what types of hazards their lone workers faced, 18% of people worried about verbal abuse and 17% of people worried about physical attack.
The majority of people (40%) feared unsupervised accidents and their response to them, yet 21% of those surveyed had no sort of monitoring system in place and of those that did 42% just supplied mobile phones.
Of the 18% with a monitoring system in place 70% had an employee dependant monitoring system, i.e the employee called in and informed an individual of their location, and none of those surveyed had an automated lone worker protection system.
Finally 40% of respondents agreed that technology would be a great enabler in allowing them to effectively monitor their lone workers.
Source - OmegaIP survey conducted at Total Workplace Management Exhibition, October 2006.
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