You have a Duty of Care to your employees.
This means that you should take all reasonable steps to ensure their health, safety and wellbeing.
The moral and ethical duty of looking after the physical and psychological health of your workers should not be taken lightly.
Health and safety is integral to success. Board members who do not show leadership in this area are failing in their duty as directors and their moral duty, and are damaging their organisation.
Personal safety technology integrated into organisations’ systems and processes can provide firms with a smarter and more cost-effective way to meet their Duty of Care and protect at-risk employees.
According to our research, employees have been receptive to personal safety devices and apps with 2 in 3 workers wanting to take the service if it was offered.
4 of the 844 East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust lone workers protected by Peoplesafe
Undertake a cost benefit analysis by researching actual and potential incidents, examining whether your risk mitigation is working for the whole process. Not everything is foreseeable and we found that technology assisted us in providing staff with a further protective measure which was a significant and proportionate approach. You cannot replace people.
