Cut security lapses
A new smartphone application enables facilities and site managers to protect lone workers and prevent lapses in security – such as guards failing to check designated areas or equipment during a tour of a site.
The app has a ‘guard tour’ program with pre-set activity logs that users must complete as they visit designated locations and undertake tasks.
The app also alerts a supervisor if a guard faces a security threat or is injured.
Staff visit fixed points on their rounds where they use a smartphone and the Lodg:IC app to scan a QR bar code printed on a plaque – which can also be attached to equipment such as safety apparatus or fire extinguishers for checking.
At the Lodg:IC control centre at Redditch, a duty manager remotely monitors all apps in use 24-7 and is alerted if a tour or task is not completed within set times. An automatic alert prompts the centre to phone the guard immediately – or if the app’s ‘man down’ warning is activated, when location details are transmitted, using the smartphone’s GPS system.
