Real time monitoring & safety for your staff Lone Worker is a new iPhone App designed as a workplace health and safety solution for all crews, workers and staff who may work alone. The Lone Worker App is an emergency beacon in your employee’s pocket. Whether your lone workers are working in a remote or dangerous location or they are just temporarily away from their team, the Lone Worker App keeps you connected to your people. With the new Lone Worker App you can: - Improve the safety of your lone workers - Respond quickly to accidents, emergency and sudden illness - Improve your employee satisfaction - Have greater peace of mind about the safety of your lone workers In the case of an emergency, Lone Worker sends you - and up to two others - alters by SMS and email to let you know a lone worker is not responding. That means you can send help to a lone worker...fast!

1. Lone Worker
Smartphone App

2. much more than
meets the eye...

3. Lone Worker App
Many staff in „lone worker situations‟ throughout the business:
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- Treatment plant operators
- Maintenance Crews
- Debt Collectors
- Office shift workers
- Trade Waste Officers
We needed a global solution that could assist all users to be safe.

4. Short history of worker safety
technology at S E Water
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All field crews have live GPS tracking in their
vehicles (for 10+ years).
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About 7 years ago, SEW implemented a mobile
phone „hotkey‟ panic alarm linked to SCADA
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About 4 years ago, SEW built a Blackberry
mobile phone app that tracked user locations
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Last year, Lone Worker for iPhone was created
to combine and improve on the previous systems

5. Lone Worker app functionality
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SEW already standardized on iPhones (used already for SCADA and field
management apps)
Lone Worker app is integrated directly into SCADA (as well as email/SMS
options)
Uses the intelligence of the iPhone to detect worker motion (or lack thereof)
Flexible enough to have its configuration tailored to specific types of workers
GPS tracking, automatic alarming and fail-safe modes all built in.

6. How it works..
o STEP 1: User that is about to go
into a “Lone Worker” situation
starts up the app and logs in
o STEP 2: User‟s login status sent to SCADA alarm
screen to notify operators/management that a user has
activated the app.

7. How it works..
STEP 3: App will either be in MOTION mode (uses the accelerometer of the iPhone)
or HEALTH-CHECK mode (periodic update required from user to let system
know they are OK). The chosen mode is determined by the user before starting
the app.
After a period of no MOTION detected or failure
by user to respond to periodic timer, loud alarm
sounds on phone (giving the user a chance to say
they are OK)

8. How it works..
STEP 4: If the user fails to respond on the app, an urgent alarm is automatically sent
from the phone to SCADA (monitored 24/7) as well as to personal email/SMS
(optional).
Once an alarm is registered in SCADA, a procedure is instigated by the
receiving staff member.

9. How it works
STEP 5: The user is called, then location of the user is assessed via the online
tracking tool and person is dispatched if they cant be contacted

10. Download – It‟s
Free

11. www.iota.net.au
Adrian Blinman
Ph: (03) 9552 3006
E: adrian.blinman@sew.com.au