Working alone with potential hazards is part of everyday life in many areas, for example for security personnel on night-time patrols, product and process controls in cold rooms, boilers or low-oxygen locations, or maintenance and cleaning work in confined containers.
If dangerous work is carried out by one person alone, the employer is obliged to ensure suitable technical and organisational personal safety precautions. The employers' liability insurance associations provide relevant guidelines to ensure that in an emergency the necessary assistance or rescue can be called and directed to the place of action in time.
In case of an increased hazard, the use of a Personal Alarm Signal System according to the German DGUV-112-139 is recommended; in case of critical hazards, it is required. It must also be possible to trigger the rescue chain if the injured person is unable to act and no one has noticed the accident.
The cleaning of confined containers is dangerous
Regular monitoring methods, e.g. by video, cannot be installed in confined containers such as tanks and silos. The job requires not only additional oxygen and protective equipment, but also high concentration. Due to the risk of slipping, accidents in which the affected person may lose consciousness can easily occur. If a protective suit or oxygen tank is damaged, the situation can be life-threatening for the injured person.
A mobile device with sensors protects the employee
Workers with such dangerous cleaning jobs carry certain Wi-Fi/DECT terminals with sensors. Position sensors trigger an alarm when the device is in a lying position for a predetermined period of time. Other sensors can cause alarms such as escape, panic, man-down or pull-cord alarms. In addition, the employee can deliberately set off an alarm via a red alarm button or be regularly asked for confirmation by means of pre-alarms. If this confirmation is not given, an alarm is triggered.
DAKS triggers predefined alerting processes
If one of these different alarms occurs, the DAKS alarm server triggers predefined alerting processes appropriate to the situation: It starts an automatic broadcast call to all predefined helpers and, with a simultaneous locating process, directs them directly to the injured person via a message displayed on the terminal. In addition, DAKS can establish a conversation with the affected person or connect all those involved in the rescue to a spontaneous emergency telephone conference.
The entire alerting process is documented
DAKS provides detailed logging of all alarm processes and thus supports the complete documentation of all emergency situations that have arisen. This makes the entire process evaluable and provides an effective basis for the optimization of processes, but also for legal certainty.
Increased security for employees
- Employees who have to do dangerous jobs unassistedly know that they can rely on the safe and detailed alerting with DAKS and that they can be sure of quick help.
- With DAKS, the emergency workflow can be practiced and optimally prepared. The logging of the entire alerting procedure makes the process evaluable and provides an effective basis for its optimization.
Increased security for those responsible
- With its DGUV-certificate, DAKS fulfills all requirements for Lone Worker Protection
- The predefined alerting processes and emergency conferences help to ensure that the right helpers arrive at the right place faster.
- This makes dangerous jobs more attractive and supports employers in their responsibility to ensure the safety and protection of their employees or contractors.
- Security service providers, such as object protection, can also use this automated personal security system in combination with other monitoring systems.
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