Hotel Staff Panic Button for the State of Illinois: Hotel Employee Safety Act
Coming into effect July 1, 2020, each hotel in the State of Illinois with over 100 guest rooms will be obliged to provide hotel staff with personal panic buttons. The Act applies to part-time and full-time employees. Panic buttons must come at no cost to the employee. Any employee who is required to work in guest rooms or restrooms where no other staff members are present should be equipped with a panic button. The employee should use the panic button to alert monitors if there is danger, such as sexual harassment, crime, assault, or any other emergency. Employers are forbidden from retaliating against an employee who uses their panic button in honest and appropriate circumstances. Hotel companies are subject to a fine between the amount of $250 and $500 for each violation of the Act, with each day that an offense continues counting as separate infractions.
How can Scatterling help your hotel in the State of Illinois: Hotel Employee Safety Act
Proactive notifications
Scatterling does not require a worker to signal for help manually. For example, if a housekeeper was to get in trouble and can’t call for help, Scatterling will sound an alarm once the timer expires and notifies other co-workers and the housekeeping manager that they need help.
HIGH RISK CHECK-IN TIMERS:
A housekeeper cleaning a room at odd hours of the night can customize the check-in timer of the app to suit a high-risk scenario by shortening the check-in duration to under 15 minutes. If a staff member does not check-in within this set interval, all of the emergency contacts set to receive notifications will be contacted immediately. If a housekeeper was to enter a room in the middle of the night, they may be confronted with hotel guests who are irate or intoxicated. If they did not confirm they are safe after the scheduled room visit, our lone worker monitoring app will immediately notify a monitor of a possible emergency. The monitor will be sent the exact location, and any other details the housekeeper has previously supplied, such as voicemails and work itinerary.
Emergency Panic button:
Scatterling also has integration to manually signal for help with a blue tooth panic button. When triggered, all of the emergency contacts will be notified of a confirmed emergency, and sent any voicemails that have 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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