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Securitex Industrial Safety and Security Division
Lone Worker Alarm System (Emergency Man
down Alarm System)
Many
industrial, commercial, correctional facilities, marine vessel, airport,
seaport, shipyard and even hospital has staff that sometime has to work alone
especially in the nightshift and this staff safety and security has to be
monitored from a remote site if possible. At Securitex
Office in Singapore we understand the need for such system and has come up with
a Securitex Wireless Personnel Scheduled Reporting System. The lone worker will carry a
Wireless Remote Transmitter that he / she will need to activate at a preset time to
indicate that he / she is still well and on the job. At the same time the system can also be use to alert the monitoring
office in the control room that this lone worker is unwell or is under attack. The lone worker
under security tread and safety situation can alert the monitored control room by pressing
a button on the transmitter. We can also
incorporate a pull-cord to the wireless transmitter to activate
the monitored control room just incase should an attempt is made to remove the
transmitter by force from the lone worker. Our system can
work in a one man operation or multiple man operation where the control room
will know exactly which personnel has just activated his or her transmitter and
immediate counter check with this person is possible. This is done through
Dedicated Radio Frequency Identification (DRFI). With the DRFI
every personnel transmitter is tag to his or her identity. Software in the CCR will monitor all
the incoming duress signal and process the identity of the
person. The system
configuration is very modular and fully expandable from standalone system to a
fully integrated system where software is use to track the individual personnel
duress signal. Depend on your site requirement and application the system will
need the following equipment:
Location of the
equipment The Transmitter
will be carried by the lone worker either on lanyard or key
holder. The Master
Control Unit will be installed in the Manned Control
Room.
General System Operation
Before the lone
worker is dispatch to the site. He / She will need to register with the Control
Room where the MCU is installed. The Control room Officer-in-charge will need to
brief the lone worker on the use of the transmitter. (In the event of an emergency
or scheduled time reporting, the lone worker will need to press the button
once or twice). In the Control
Room where the MCU is installed and depend of requirement, the system can be
preset to activate on an interval of 1 second up to15 minutes recyclable alarm
(or longer timing as the system activation is fully programmable). The lone worker will be ask to activate the transmitter
at the pre-schedule time to sound the alarm or deactivate the MCU alarm –
subject to the Pre-arrange Standard Operation Procedure (SOP).
Example operation: Pre-schedule
operation The lone worker
will need to activate his/her transmitter once by pressing button 2 to turn off
the pre-schedule alarm at the MCU. If by the pre-schedule time say 15 minutes
interval the transmitter button is not press the MCU alarm will activate, the
officer in charge will then use either the plant Public Address System to
contact the lone worker or through his personal walkie
talkie informing him/ her to press the button 2 to signal he / she is fine. If
no respond is receive within a pre-define time say 10 sec from the lone worker,
the officer will then have to immediately dispatch someone to look for the lone
worker.
Emergency
operation The lone worker
when meet with an accident or he / she need assistant, the lone worker can press
button 1 on the transmitter. When transmitter button 1 is press, the MCU will
activate and the officer must immediately dispatch someone to look for the lone
worker. (In this case
no counter check with the worker is needed the office will need to immediately dispatch someone to
site to assist the lone worker)
Multiple
user MCU In a facility
where many workers work alone in different section of the factory floor or
within a facility, each lone worker will carry a transmitter with DRFI built-in.
Individual lone worker will be registered into the Securitex EMD-MCU-MPU-200SW
(200 user c/w software control and data-logger). The EMD-MCU-MPU-200SW will be
hook up to a dedicated work station with the personnel duress signal software.
In the event any of the 200 lone worker activate the transmitter button 1, the
MCU in the CCR will sent an event to the workstation and the lone worker
identity will be display on the screen an alarm will also activate at the MCU, the
officer in charge will then need to dispatch some one in the Central
Control Room (CCR) to look for
this lone worker or the officer-in-charge can activate next lone worker nearby
to lookout for the lone worker that activate the transmitter button 1. The name,
date, time, department and even the location will be registered into the system
software and a report can be generated if needed for audit
purpose.
Test activation With all wireless system there is always a chance
that the signal may not be receive by the CCR MCU. In such case when the lone
worker has reach his designated work location, he will then need to report his
last location and then test activate his transmitter to ensure the transmitted
signal is received by the CCR MCU.
What happen if for any reason the transmitted signal did nor receive by the CCR MCU even after the test activated signal is fine earlier its no problem as the MCU after a preset time is up will activate a siren and if the lone worker did press button 2 but yet the signal did receive by the MCU, the officer-in-charge will still need to dispatch someone to look for the lone worker. (Do not reset the MCU and take for granted that all is well with the lone worker)
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Pharmaceutical Lone Worker System © 1996 - 2014 Securitex Electronic Systems Engineering. All rights reserved. SecureCiti International is a
subsidiary of Securitex Electronic Systems Engineering We designed and provide complete wireless solution including hardware and software communication platforms, user-friendly interface and a variety of special sensors to carryout this project email us @ sales@securitex.com.sg or you can visit our website http://www.securitex.com.sg |
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