Employee Safety in Utilities & Public Works

STATE OF THE INDUSTRY

Utilities & Public Works organizations are entrusted to build and maintain infrastructure for delivery of public services. While this industry has policies in place to offer reliable resources to the public, you need to ensure the right safety practices are in place to protect your most valuable asset—your employees.

According to the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI), electrical-related incidents are the No. 1 cause of workplace fatalities in this industry. A study published by the National Safety Council in the United States reports hundreds of workplace fatalities and thousands of injuries occur each year due to electrical hazards alone. In addition, multiple incidents also occur in water and natural gas sectors, often resulting with workers on disability. Sometimes, these incidents are fatal.

INDUSTRY STATISTICS

YOUR SAFETY POLICY

Your teams often work alone for extended periods of time at wastewater treatment plants or up high on power lines. Working with high voltage materials, contaminated water, toxic chemicals and gases everyday can be hazardous.

From electrical engineers to maintenance personnel, you are responsible for the safety and well being of all of your lone workers.

Are the right processes in place to send help for your team when a safety incident occurs?

A BETTER WAY TO RESPOND

To make a difference, no time can be wasted in managing your emergency response.

Many organizations still use antiquated check-in procedures to ensure the ongoing safety of employees. This approach has proven it is not capable of responding fast enough, in real-time to make a difference for your lone workers.

Optimized emergency response time is at the core of Blackline Safety’s solutions. We provide all customers with the ability to quickly respond to injuries, health incidents and even animal attacks, in the shortest time possible.

In Utilities & Public Works applications where Blackline’s technology is used, responders can be directed in real-time not only to a precise outdoor location, but the exact floor and room an employee is located if indoors.

Our technology shaves minutes, even hours, off response time, when lone workers need help—regardless of location.

Blackline Safety is the only company to address safety monitoring scenarios, employee roles, locations and indoor facilities within a single platform.

Your organization is unique. That’s why we work with you to meet your specific requirements.

Just like your personnel, we work everywhere.

Our turnkey Loner solutions complement rather than impose upon your business—all settings, including fall detection, are configurable in real-time, over-the-air to respond to your company’s needs.

Our solutions monitor lone workers everywhere they work with cellular and satellite communications. Indoors, outdoors or remote locations—we have you covered.
Our technology improves employee productivity compared to traditional check-in procedures.
We are a one stop shop—our turnkey solution makes it easy to adopt safety monitoring.
We do this every day, providing the consulting necessary to deploy on time and on budget.
Our 24/7 Safety Operations Center can manage safety monitoring for you—around the clock.
We own everything. From product design to infrastructure and services, this allows us to respond to customer needs in a confident and comprehensive manner.
Our products are intuitive, easy-to-use and designed from the ground up for the energy industry.
We designed our solutions for true field use—just one example is our best-in-class SureSafe™ light, which provides confidence to employees that their safety is monitored.

Loner 900

Loner Bridge

The Loner Bridge System monitors the safety of remote employees by addressing the challenge in two ways: The Loner Bridge portable satellite base station manages a satellite uplink while the Loner 900 person-worn safety device monitors the real-time safety status of the employee.

An industrial-grade 900 MHz radio link connects the two components, ensuring that employees can work up to two kilometers apart under real-world conditions. Plus, Blackline offers the ability for workers to operate indoors without sacrificing safety monitoring continuity due to a dropped wireless connection.

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Loner 900

Ideally suited for a variety of environments in Utilities & Public Works, Loner 900 is the person-worn safety monitoring component of the Loner Bridge System. Certified intrinsically safe, the Loner 900 device features a combination of automatic incident detection and the ability to manually trigger a request for help.

As a true last-mile solution, Loner 900 communicates with the Loner Bridge portable base station that manages a satellite uplink to Blackline’s monitoring infrastructure.

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Loner Beacon

Blackline’s Loner Portal user account offers a powerful combination of employee safety monitoring and emergency response management capabilities.

Blackline’s Loner Beacon is the most cost-effective and precise technology to locate employees wearing a compatible Loner device within industrial environments. Loner Beacon provides seamless positioning indoors and nearby buildings with GPS when working outdoors.

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Loner Portal

Blackline’s Loner Portal user account offers a powerful combination of employee safety monitoring and emergency response management capabilities.

This industry-leading infrastructure was built from the ground up, empowering organizations to make a difference through efficient safety incident management. Loner Portal is highly configurable for all roles, applications, sites and divisions within the industry.

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UTILITIES & PUBLIC WORKS

Working with natural gas, electricity and wastewater is dangerous—do you have the fastest emergency response plan in place when your team needs help?

STATE OF THE INDUSTRY

YOUR SAFETY POLICY

A BETTER WAY TO RESPOND

To make a difference, no time can be wasted in managing your emergency response.

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Why Blackline Safety?

Blackline Safety is the only company to address safety monitoring scenarios, employee roles, locations and indoor facilities within a single platform.

Suggested Solutions for Utilities & Public Works

Loner Bridge

Loner 900

Loner Beacon

Loner Portal

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