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Components
Transportation management centers (TMCs)
Ramp metering
Incident management
Motorist assistance systems
Communications systems
Radio communications
Changeable message signs (CMSs)
1
Transportation management centers
Organization
Combine traffic operations personnel with law enforcement
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Case study STW
1. More than six million people in
the UK are now classified as lone
workers with many of them
operating alone in remote
geographies in high-risk
environments. HSE legislation
means that UK companies are
responsible for the health, safety
and welfare of not only their
employees, but also of
contractors and self-employed
workers. As such, employers
have a duty to ensure that lone
workers operating in isolated
environments are supported with
appropriate processes,
procedures and technologies to
mitigate risk and assure their
safety. However, with many lone
workers required to work in
hazardous remote settings where
mobile coverage is sub-optimal,
providing such support can be
challenging.
Although the deployment of stand-
alone lone worker solutions is a
common and noble attempt to
assure employee safety, on its own it
is not enough. The most progressive
organisations are those that have
integrated lone worker solutions into
their broader unified communications
network, in the process supporting
vulnerable remote workers with
greater connectivity and renewed
reassurance. A great example of this
can be found at Severn Trent Water,
where a long-standing partnership
with ANT Telecom is ensuring that
lone worker safety is protected by an
integrated system.
Severn Trent
Severn Trent is a leading UK water
company, responsible for water
management and supply, as well as
waste water treatment and disposal.
The company, which draws its water
sources – and indeed its name –
from two of Britain’s largest rivers,
the Severn and the Trent, maintains
46,000km of mains pipes. It supplies
around 1.8 billion litres of drinking
water each day to around 7.7 million
people. Almost a third (32%) of its
supplies are from groundwater
sources. The company, which
operates a number of reservoirs and
water treatment plants, also collects
and treats around 1.4 giga-litres of
wastewater each day across a
92,000km sewer network – to more
than 1000 sewage treatment works.
As such, the company deploys a
high number of lone workers.
A bridge over untroubled waters
How ANT Telecom is helping Severn Trent Water maintain
secure, integrated communications with its lone workers
Call 01494 833100. Visit www.anttele.com
Avaya Partner in Customer Excellence
ANT Telecommunications Limited, Swift House, Peregrine Business Park
Gomm Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP13 7DL
Case study
2. Lone worker partnership
To safeguard its growing team of
remote workers, Severn Trent has
established a long-running
partnership with communications
solutions specialists ANT Telecom.
The relationship began in the late
1990s with the installation of a pager
alarm system for Severn Trent’s
Trimpley treatment plant, and has
subsequently evolved into the
development and maintenance of an
integrated lone worker solution
across many of its sites.
“We contract ANT to manage all of
the service, repair and call-out work
to our lone worker systems,” says
Mark Purcell, Contracts Manager for
Operational Support Services, EM&I
at Severn Trent. “The systems are in
place at sites where we have no
mobile coverage – predominantly our
clean water and water production
plants. We have also adopted the
solution at some of our sewage
treatment works where they have no
coverage in the dry wells, or
intermittent coverage in some of the
pipe galleries.”
The lone worker system plays an
important role in alerting problems
with critical on-site alarms. The
solution uses a two-way radio
system, incorporating a panic button,
tilt detection and a time surveillance
system. The system, which integrates
with the annunciator panel to pick up
hardwire problems, also interfaces
with Severn Trent’s SCADA alarm
system – meaning that operators can
pick up alerts irrespective of where
they are on-site. “If any pumps or
critical assets fail, the system will
radio straight through to our
operators to ensure they are aware of
any issues. If they are not in the
control room, the alert will go directly
to nominated radios on site. Likewise,
the access gates are connected to
the same system – providing cross-
site connectivity at all times,” says
Mark.
The benefits
The ANT solution continues to have a
major impact on Severn Trent’s
operations – not only helping to
mitigate risk and drive productivity
and efficiency, but also ensuring the
company meets some of its key
strategic objectives. “Health and
Safety is a high priority for Severn
Trent,” says Mark. “One of my main
annual goals is to reduce lost time
caused by incidents and accidents
on our sites – and our contractors
and partners have a huge role to play
in helping us to meet that objective.
The lone worker solution is pivotal.
And because of the nature of our
relationship, we give ANT full
autonomy to manage the system.
This helps me direct my time towards
other matters within the business.
“Moreover, with health and safety so
important to us, ANT always engages
heavily with us around all our safety
projects, and their service engineers
help make their implementation
simple and effective. This makes a
huge difference; it means that we can
serve site managers and operators
optimally, and this in turn makes my
job a whole lot easier.”
Severn Trent uses a ‘Balanced
Scorecard’ to measure contractors’
performance against agreed KPIs,
many of which focus on safety
issues. “Our main goal is to ensure
that our equipment is working safely.
If it isn’t, this inevitably puts our
operators at risk – and this is
something that we cannot afford to
do. That’s why we put in place really
tight metrics and timescales to
monitor performance. ANT
consistently achieves or exceeds
those targets. This is a real benefit to
us,” says Mark.
The relationship and the future
With the trend towards lone working
showing no sign of abating in the
coming years, Severn Trent’s long-
standing partnership with ANT
Telecom appears set to evolve
further.
“The ANT account team is always
looking for new ways to improve
performance and extend coverage
across our sites – and will frequently
share information on innovations
coming through that may be able to
help us do that. It’s a great
combination; ANT’s service engineers
demonstrate extremely high
knowledge and competency levels to
ensure that the solutions integrate
seamlessly with our business
requirements, and at a more strategic
level, the consultancy we receive
ensures that our technologies are
aligned for growth. They’re a real
asset to the business.” Mark
concluded.
Call 01494 833100. Visit www.anttele.com
Avaya Partner in Customer Excellence
ANT Telecommunications Limited, Swift House, Peregrine Business Park
Gomm Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP13 7DL
Case study