Worker Safety Monitoring for Health and Home Care Workers
There are more than 18 million health care practitioners in the United States, and a percentage of these workers provide a service that are outside an office or hospital environment. While caring for patients on the streets or providing a service in a patient's home, health care workers are vulnerable to violence while on duty. Health care workers can use lone worker monitoring software, such as a check-in system, as part of their risk assessment strategy or declare an SOS alarm discreetly via Bluetooth panic button should they face aggression while working alone or with other colleagues.
Many health care organizations still use antiquated check-in procedures to ensure the safety of employees while providing services visiting clients' homes or working alone in the community. This approach is limited and not capable of responding fast enough for health care workers who are exposed to violence.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows health care workers are nearly four times more likely to require time off work as a result of violence vs. other types of injury. OSHA 3148: Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Health care and Social Service Workers recognizes this problem. Among the suggested practices from the guide are:
Enable a GPS tracking ability for mobile workers
Ensure workers have a means of communication such as cell phones or panic buttons
Ensure protocols are in place for checking-in/checking-out with supervisors
How can Scatterling help?
Proactive notifications
Scatterling does not require a worker to signal for help manually. If you do get in trouble and can’t call for help, our lone worker safety app will sound an alarm once your timer expires and let your co-workers and supervisors know you need help.
HIGH RISK CHECK-IN TIMERS:
A health care professional’s situation may be more high risk than usual routine, especially if they must visit an unknown client or patient. This is where a work alone solution comes in handy. The user can customize the check-in timer on the Scatterling app for a high-risk scenario by shortening the check-in duration to under 15 minutes. If the user does not check-in within the set interval, all of the emergency contacts set to receive notifications will be contacted immediately. For example, if the user were to enter a room alone with a possibly violent client, and did not confirm safety within a minute, all coworkers and supervisors would be immediately notified of a possible emergency, and be sent exact location, and any other details that have previously supplied, such as voicemails and work profile.
Emergency Panic button:
Scatterling also has integration to manually signal for help with a blue tooth panic button. When triggered, all emergency contacts will be notified of a confirmed emergency, and sent any voicemails that was previously recorded, details of location, and work profile.
FULL DEVICE INTEGRATION:
Scatterling’s lone worker app can be used on any device, such as smartphones, laptops, landlines, and pagers, that employees might already be carrying with them. Therefore, they do not need to carry any new or excess equipment with them at any time.
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