LONE WORKER

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LONE WORKER WorkSafeBC Definition "to work alone or in isolation" means to work in circumstances where assistance would not be readily available to the worker

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LONE WORKER Stake Holders

Lake City Control Room in the process of moving to Seymour Filtration Staff: work a twelve (12) hour shift at night alone Operations and Maintenance Staff: inspecting and working through out the region work a stand by shift possible call out after hours

LONE WORKER Stake Holders Residual Management Staff: inspects and work through out the region including Ashcroft B.C. Regulation and Enforcement Staff: inspecting and working through out the region

LONE WORKER Stake Holders Regional Parks Staff: maintain, patrol, and interact. 7days/week, extended hours Lake City Labs Staff: collect samples in remote locations

LONE WORKER Stake Holders Solid Waste Management Staff: who inspect waste sites through out the Region, including Ashcroft B.C Greater Vancouver Housing Staff: interact with public and residents

LONE WORKER Stake Holders Water Treatment Staff: work with chemicals, attend alarms Air quality Staff: collect samples, visit remote sampling stations interact with the public

LONE WORKER The CRITERIA The criteria for the search What does Metro Vancouver's workers need? What are the WSBC regulatory requirements? What are we using now? What technology is available?

LONE WORKER Available Systems

TPASS Transmitting Personal Alert Safety System Certified intrinsically Has a motion detection mode; The audio 95 dBA alarm Has GPS capabilities LONE WORKER Available Systems

Unit Features off and on alarms “man down” alarm

LONE WORKER Available Systems The unit is best suited for use in a fenced area

LONE WORKER RADIOS

LONE WORKER Infrastructure in Place The Motorola VHF HT1250-LS + Currently in use at Metro Vancouver

LONE WORKER Parks Locations

LONE WORKER Available Systems ACGlobal Systems provides a suite of satellite communications solutions through their Man Alone Safety and GPS that help ensure the safety of people that work alone in remote locales

LONE WOKER Available Systems automated communication service

LONE WORKER Available Systems TELUS Track & Dispatch Solution

LONE WORKER Available Systems TELUS Track & Dispatch solution Quickly identify destinations and locations with Geofences alerts are sent Wireless timers

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Custom built system

LONE WORKER Available Systems MAN DOWN SYSTEMS Activated by a portable or base/mobile radio, landline, cellular phone and pagers with numeric key pads.

LONE WORKER Available Systems Custom built system – Man Down Cowichan Valley Regional District System monitors the time (like an egg timer) Worker is able to add more time during any event Alerts the user prior to check in time No response by the user, system will start the notification as determined by the user group

LONE WORKER Available Systems SafetyLine™ LoneWorker : Lone Worker monitoring service

LONE WORKER Available Systems SafetyLine™ (Tsunami Solutions) Automated employee monitoring service uses telephone, mobile and web technologies In the event that an employee fails to check-in or declares a Panic, system activates contacts monitors for a quick response – history, GPS location, voice record

LONE WORKER Some of Tsunami’s clients Terasen Inc., BC Hydro BC Ministry of Environment City of Vancouver City of Winnipeg City of New Westminster BC Ministry of Agriculture Corps of Commissionaires, Imperial Oil Chevron/Texaco Environment Canada BC Ministry of Attorney General,

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Replay Replay © - Call in program Time blocks purchase Replay monitors time and alerts No user response starts the call out program

LONE WORKER Available Systems Some of Replay’s clients include; Work Safe B.C Township of Langley ICBC Canfore Mills in the Northern District

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TigerTel – UTR Call in program, user buys blocks of time, typically 2500 minutes provide user information monitors time and alerts no user response starts the call out program as directed by user

LONE WORKER Available Systems TigerTel clients : a wide range of commercial clients including Metro Vancouver

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