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Workplace safety

Safety in the workplace is essential for both employees and employers alike. Our solutions can keep employees safe, protect industrial equipment, and help employers fulfil their duty of care.

Staff Attack Alarm
Many workers face the daily risk of physical violence or harassment in the workplace. Staff need reassurance that help is never far away while managers need to minimize the risk and costly consequences. As a result, the ability to instantly raise alarms and rapidly respond to incidents is critical for a safer workplace.
Staff Attack Alarms
Lone Worker Safety
Staff who work alone face greater risks if something goes wrong. Minimizing these risks and making staff more confident in their job, you need a safety solution that supports lone workers and ensures responders can react to an emergency as quickly and effectively as possible.
Lone Worker Safety
Guard Tour
It is vital to ensure the safety of security or prison guards on their daily rounds. You must also be able to log activity and show that the required checks are carried out. The right solution can reliably and efficiently meet both needs.
Guard Tour

Staff Safety as a Service

Enable your staff to feel more secure thanks to the ability to quickly raise and respond to personal alarms, helping them at the time of potentially damaging incidents and their costly consequences. Ascom Staff Safety as a Service offers a flexible, scalable, and easy-to-deploy cloud-based solution, tailored to meet both your current and future needs.

  • Locate workers when incidents occur - inside and outside your building
  • Easy-to-deploy - fits your needs
  • Flexible subscription and scalable deployment model
  • Freedom to choose alarm recipients, types and location
  • Easy to integrate with mobile solutions

The urgency and importance for workplace safety

In the EU alone, there were a concerning 2.7 million work-related accidents in 2020, with 3,355 deaths (Source: Eurostat). Beyond the tragic human cost, these accidents lead to further consequences like long absences for illness and injury, cover through extra personnel or having to recruit and train new staff, and the time and money lost through downtime or disruption of operations.

Whether it’s a prison guard facing a dangerous inmate, a lone technician overcome by toxic fumes, a store worker threatened by a customer or a security guard not checking in during their rounds, each of them needs to know that their safety is taken seriously, and that help is never far away.

Workplace safety: startling facts and solutions for a safer tomorrow

“Workplace safety isn’t just a legal responsibility; it’s a moral commitment” That is the heartfelt opinion of Lloyd Spindler, Global Segment Manager at Ascom, the global communications and workflow solutions provider. “It's crucial for the well-being of employees, visitors, and the reputation of any organization.” Statistics related to workplace safety are nothing short of startling. 

Blog: Staff safety, where technology truly makes a difference

Every second counts. When it comes to workplace safety, there are no compromises. One alarm, one measure or one check can be the difference between life and death.

Alarming statistics and the dangers for lone workers

The facts don’t paint a pretty picture. The world of the workplace is full of alarming statistics and startling realities, organizations are facing new challenges every day.

Guard tours and staff attacks: the inconvenient truths

There’s a growing and worrying trend in the workplace. A recent study found that 23% of people have experienced some kind of workplace violence or harassment.