Alert system for solo workers

Heartbeat is a preventive system that helps to safeguard maintenance and manufacturing personnel who work solo.

It is a telephone-based alert system that is applicable across most industries, including mining, security, general engineering and manufacturing, building and construction, petrochemical and oil refineries.

The automated monitoring system keeps constant, regular communication with solo and maintenance personnel and has been designed as a preventive, rather than reactive system.

In a maintenance/installation scenario, such as that where a person is working solo in an elevator shaft, they would be rostered on a system which is set to dial them every 30 mins - although the time intervals can be set by the user.

Once dialled, the worker must acknowledge the transmission. If it is not answered the first time, the system calls again.

When there is no response after the second attempt to make contact, the incident is instantly flagged and Heartbeat immediately identifies the workplace safety crew.

Calls are programmable for emergency team conference or broadcast messaging and multiple conferences can be held simultaneously with local or remote control by operator software.

Optional are interfaces to radio paging systems, the recording of all voice traffic on a system and interactive voice response menus for different actions. The team rostering also enables members to make themselves unavailable, when necessary.

It logs all system activity and the system memory is retained in event of a power failure.