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Safety, thought through.

Practical guides on lone working and personal safety — written the way we write the rest of this site: no invented statistics, no scare tactics, and honest about what a product can and cannot do.

Workplace safety

Lone working: what a risk assessment has to cover

Lone working is the item risk assessments most often miss. What to document: who works alone and when, how an alarm is raised, who responds, and what happens when the worker cannot press anything.

30 August 2026 · 6 min read

Workplace safety

How to choose a lone-worker safety device

Phone app, Bluetooth button, standalone GPS alarm or a site receiver? An honest guide to which lone-worker device fits which workplace — and the questions to ask before you buy any of them.

30 August 2026 · 7 min read

Workplace safety

Staff safety on the shop floor: what retail actually needs

Confrontation in a shop happens in front of customers, with colleagues metres away. Why discreet activation and colleagues-first alerting matter more in retail than anywhere else.

30 August 2026 · 5 min read

Personal safety

Walking home alone: what actually helps

Sharing your location all evening, texting when you arrive, keys between the fingers — what holds up and what doesn’t, and where a safety app or button honestly fits in.

30 August 2026 · 6 min read

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