Animal charity opts for personal alarms

The charity have a range of lone working activities that present an inherent level of risk. This includes employees entering domestic properties on home check-ups to maintenance staff working alone in remote areas. 

Speaking about the implementation of Skyguard, Tom O’Connell, protection and welfare services manager for Wood Green, said: “With the reputation of being the leading brand of lone working safety devices and response support, I felt confident and assured that we were placing the safety of our staff in professional hands."

“With the easy to use and innovative devices backed up by fully trained, professional response staff the choice really was straight forward.”

The palm-sized MySOS device allows users to call for help at the press of a button. With two-way audio and GPS, help is never far away and controllers at Skyguard’s Incident Management Centre can direct emergency response to the user’s exact location, fast.

Options include ‘Mandown’ fall alarm capability and Roaming SIM cards which operate across all mobile networks providing reception in known black-spots.