Derby based security firm Octavian Security has launched a new
service offering to keep lone workers, such as pizza delivery
drivers, security officers and nursing staff, safer in their
jobs.
The new service will see potentially vulnerable workers carrying
a device, which both tracks their location and enables them to send
an SOS message to the 24 hour Octavian Security Control Centre that
will be monitoring them. In case of an emergency, they will signal
or speak to the Control Centre, which will then send an officer
response team to their aid and contact the police if necessary. The
new system even boasts a 'man down' alert that actually senses when
the wearer has fallen.
This new service provision has been devised by Kavita Oberoi,
who now co-owns the business with founder Sukhi Ghuman. It
represents the first service offer born of the marriage of security
and technology that was promised by Kavita Oberoi when she became
involved in the business.
Kavita, who also owns the healthcare and pharma technology
consultancy Oberoi Consulting Limited, first became involved in
Octavian as she saw such a great opportunity to integrate further
technology solutions to Octavian's existing manned guarding
services. She says:
"The security industry has been providing manned response units
for businesses for years, but not specifically for individual
workers.
"Whilst it's not always practical financially or operationally
to have a security guard accompany each vulnerable lone worker,
it's very possible to provide a monitoring and quick response
service for them.
"Monitoring high risk workers during their working day and even
getting to and from work on late shifts, the service will not only
safeguard the individual but also the CSR of the organisation that
is asking the worker to operate potentially at risk."
Octavian Security is also using the same remote monitoring
technology to safeguard its own officers, and offering the service
to competitor security companies that wish to monitor the safety of
their officers.
Kavita has already introduced the service offering as a pilot to
an organisation with a nationwide team of nurses that provide drug
administration to end of life patients, for whom nurse protection
is paramount.
Additionally Sukhi, who now deals with all non-UK based Octavian
business, is also seeking to promote this new initiative in the
USA.