Safety in numbers
April 1st 2008 Community workers who fail
to give the all clear after
attending meetings alone
are to be called by
emergency operators to
check that they are safe.
Staff at Leeds Federated
Housing Association are
among the first to use the
new combined Code5
Companion service from
Orbis Monitoring and
Panztel.
Any worker concerned
about where they are going
or who they are meeting
need only key 9 on their
mobile phone to record
their whereabouts and 5 to
raise the alarm and get the
emergency services.
The 9 key also activates a
Companion system that
prompts users to log the
expected duration of the
meeting and calls users back
at the end of the time
given. If the call is not
answered, the alarm is
raised in the same way as if
the 5 key had been pressed.
Pressing 5 puts
emergency operators at the
Orbis 24 hour response
centre on the line to assess
the situation, locate the
user and send the
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