New preventative system from Adtec Communications
New preventative system
has developed a preventative system to help safeguard maintenance and manufacturing personnel that work solo.
Heartbeat, a telephone based alert system, is applicable across several industries including mining, security, general engineering and manufacturing, building and construction, petrochemical and oil refineries, telecommunications installation, or any other application when a single person needs to be carefully monitored to ensure high level of occupational health and safety.
According to Adtec Communications, until now much focus has been placed on teams of people and the welfare of the solo worker has been overlooked.
With Heartbeat, even though the employee may be out of sight, they will never be out of mind as the automated system keeps constant, regular communications with the person.
For the first time, solo maintenance and installation personnel have a system that is preventative rather than just reactive.
Adtec believes this will sit well with the OH&S/ WorkCover authorities around Australia and also the unions which are striving to improve working conditions for industrial workers.
Heartbeat is based on the Adtec’s perpetually-evolving ALERTS system. In just about any maintenance/installation scenario, such as that where a person is working solo in an elevator shaft, they would be rostered on the system which is set to dial him every, say, half an hour (time intervals are purely up to the user of the technology).
The worker dialled must acknowledge this transmission. If it is not answered the first time, then the system calls again.
But if there is no response after the second attempt to make contact, the incident is instantly flagged and Heartbeat immediately identifies the workplace safety crew.
Calls are programmable for emergency team conference or broadcast messaging and multiple conferences can be held simultaneously with local or remote control by operator software.
Optional are interfaces to radio paging systems, the recording of all voice traffic on a system, interactive voice response menus for different actions. The team rostering also allows members to make themselves unavailable, when necessary.
It logs all system activity and the system memory is retained in event of a power failure.
Ideal for any situation where an organisation needs to connect people and mobilise response teams, ALERTS provides emergency services with alerting capabilities, trauma team notification, events management, project management, disaster recovery, and news coverage.
This is a new development for all the industry sectors and is not restricted to situations where employees are operating solo.
This is an overall safety solution as often when two people are working and there is a problem it can be difficult for the second person to get the message out, so it bypasses this potential problem and speeds up the recovery process.
Adtec has put a lot of development into this system and is happy with the positive reaction it has had so far from the various companies and unions of Australian industry.
22-Mar-2007