ZONITH Lone Worker

All the Lone Worker Safety You Need - In Your Hand Held Radio

Improve both safety and efficiency with ZONITH Lone Worker Protection. It automatically calls for help if the lone worker is unable to help himself. It assists rescuers in finding lone workers as quickly as possible and automatically removes obstacles in their way. Read power plant case. 

The Need for Lone Worker Safety

Large utilities, production plants and commercial buildings are relying still more on automated systems to run and monitor everything from building management systems over task handling to SCADA alarms. It is no longer necessary to use more than a few individuals to cover large areas, therefore the need for systems to protect lone workers are growing.

 

 

ZONITH Lone Worker Protection Features

Zonith Lone Worker Safety offers multiple features, which enhances the lone worker safety. Depending on your needs, you can choose between different features.

  • Indoor positioning: This ZONITH Alarm Control System-Module enables you to locate a lone worker. If a lone worker presses his panic button his colleagues will know where he is by reading the alarm text on their own radios. Read more here.
  • Safe Area: When many lone worker protection features are active at the same time they can become a nuisance when you are in a safe location (i.e. lunch- or control room). ZONITH Safe Area uses the Bluetooth indoor positioning to define the safe area, and motion detectors to detect movement in the safe area. When the lone worker is in the safe area lone worker features are automatically deactivated. But if there is no motion in the area the lone worker features will activate again (read case).
  • Centralized Safety: Centralized lone worker protection eliminates one of the the main single points of failure; the lone worker's radio. The control software sends a text message to the radio at a predefined interval, and the lone worker must then reply actively. If not replied to inside a predefined number of minutes, a lone worker alarm will be raised. 
  • Panic button: When pressed a message is sent to colleagues and an emergency control center (read case).
  • Man Down: This feature will raise an alarm if the radio remains motionless or in a lying down position for a certain amount of time.
  • Dead Man's Button: The radio starts giving off sound if no buttons have been touched for a preset time interval. If the lone worker does not react by pressing a button - an alarm is raised (read case).
    Access Control: Automatic control of plant gates. Ensures easy access for rescue personnel coming from outside the installation (read case).

 

Safety and Value-Add

Apart from the obvious safety advantages Zonith Lone Worker applications adds value through higher efficiency. Technical alarms are sent directly to the employee radio, allowing employees to move freely around the production area at all times. Based on the ZONITH Alarm Control System scheduler, alarms are dispatched directly to employees with the exact skills to handle the problem.

Power Plant Case

 

Lone Worker Solution used in Power Plants (Read Full Case):

1. If a lone worker is in trouble an alarm will be sent via TETRA to the ZONITH Alarm Control System. 2. If anyone else is working at the site they will receive a text message distress call. 3. It sends the same call via both SDS and SMS to the emergency control center. 4. The outer gates will automatically open for easy rescuer access. 5. ZONITH Alarm Control System also handles technical alarms from the power plant, automatically dispatching them to employee radios.

Experience Counts

Zonith has extensive experience with digital radio solutions, and as the demands for Lone Worker Protection has grown - it has become a focus area for Zonith.

Zonith has installed numerous solutions in power plants, paper mills, public institutions, hotels, oil rigs, tunnels and more. In other words, the Zonith Products have shown their reliability.

A more efficient place of work

At the core of all the Zonith Lone Worker Safety features is the ZONITH Alarm Control System. It is extremely well suited for lone worker safety. Not only is it a safe and reliable system - it makes the jobs of lone workers a lot easier by sending all the information they need directly to the hand held radio. Result: A more efficient place of work. 

 

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