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Unfavourable mobile phone survey from SBES
Lone worker survey reveals dissatisfaction with mobile phone technology. SBES, the lone worker protection system specialist, conducted a quick-fire survey at this year’s Safety & Health Expo. The survey has revealed that an amazing majority of organisations that have a lone worker system in place are not satisfied that it meets their requirements. Of the people SBES surveyed, 100% had lone workers in their business, and of these respondents, 96% had some sort of lone worker protection system in place. Of these, 16% had a paper-based system, 67% had a mobile phone based system and 3% had both. The most significant point from the responses is that none of the respondents believed that these systems met their requirements. This is placed into context when you consider that of the people surveyed, 25% had experienced a lone worker incident in their organisation Peter Swan, CEO of SBES said, "While I am sure that most people can see the obvious deficiencies of a paper-based system, it is the number of people that are dissatisfied with their mobile phone-type solution that is a real worry. Mobile phones may have revolutionised personal and business communication but the problems that they have in terms of signal strength, range and battery power make them largely unsuited to loneworker protection. Plus, they simply do not have features such as an incapacity alert or a tilt sensor to indicate if a worker is rendered unconscious for example.”
