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WorkSafeBC Definition

"to work alone or in isolation"

means to work in circumstances where assistance would not be readily available to the worker

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LONE WORKER Stake Holders

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Lake City Control Room

• in the process of moving to Seymour Filtration• Staff: work a twelve (12) hour shift at night alone

Operations and Maintenance• Staff: inspecting and working through out the region• work a stand by shift• possible call out after hours

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Residual Management

Staff: inspects and work through out the region including Ashcroft B.C.

Regulation and Enforcement

Staff: inspecting and working through out the region

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Regional Parks

Staff: maintain, patrol, and interact. 7days/week, extended hours

Lake City Labs

Staff: collect samples in remote locations

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Solid Waste Management

Staff: who inspect waste sites through out the Region,

including Ashcroft B.C

Greater Vancouver Housing

Staff: interact with public and residents

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Water Treatment

Staff: work with chemicals, attend alarms

Air quality

Staff: collect samples, visit remote sampling stations

interact with the public

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The criteria for the search

• What does Metro Vancouver's workers need?• What are the WSBC regulatory requirements?• What are we using now?• What technology is available?

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TPASSTransmitting Personal Alert Safety System

• Certified intrinsically • Has a motion detection mode; • The audio 95 dBA alarm • Has GPS capabilities

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Unit Features

• off and on• alarms• “man down” alarm

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The unit is best suited for use in a fenced area

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RADIOS

                     

LONE WORKERInfrastructure in Place

The Motorola VHF HT1250-LS +

Currently in use at Metro Vancouver

LONE WORKERParks Locations

LONE WORKER Available Systems

• ACGlobal Systems provides a suite of satellite communications solutions through their Man Alone Safety and GPS that help ensure the safety of people that work alone in remote locales

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automated communication service

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TELUS Track & Dispatch Solution

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TELUS Track & Dispatch solution

• Quickly identify destinations and locations with Geofences

• alerts are sent• Wireless timers

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Custom built system

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MAN DOWN SYSTEMS

Activated by a portable or base/mobile radio, landline, cellular phone and pagers with numeric key pads.

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Custom built system – Man DownCowichan Valley Regional District

• System monitors the time (like an egg timer) • Worker is able to add more time during any event• Alerts the user prior to check in time• No response by the user, system will start the

notification as determined by the user group

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SafetyLine™ LoneWorker:

Lone Worker monitoring service

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SafetyLine™ (Tsunami Solutions)

• Automated employee monitoring service uses telephone, mobile and web technologies

• In the event that an employee fails to check-in or declares a Panic, system activates

• contacts monitors for a quick response – history, GPS location, voice record

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Some of Tsunami’s clients

• Terasen Inc., • BC Hydro• BC Ministry of

Environment• City of Vancouver• City of Winnipeg• City of New Westminster

• BC Ministry of Agriculture• Corps of

Commissionaires, Imperial Oil

• Chevron/Texaco• Environment Canada• BC Ministry of Attorney

General,

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Replay

• Replay © - Call in program• Time blocks purchase• Replay monitors time and alerts • No user response starts the call out program

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Some of Replay’s clients include;

• Work Safe B.C• Township of Langley • ICBC• Canfore Mills in the Northern District

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TigerTel – UTR

• Call in program, • user buys blocks of time, typically 2500 minutes• provide user information• monitors time and alerts • no user response starts the call out program as

directed by user

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TigerTel clients :• a wide range of commercial clients including

Metro Vancouver

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