Employee Safety Devices: Preparation and Selection
Keeping your employees safe is just a (panic) button away.
- There are growing pressures from legislation and unions to ensure the safety of lone workers in hospitality.
- Your property or brand is now tasked with ensuring compliance by providing those lone workers with a safety device that can be pushed in emergency situations.
- Failure to implement employee safety devices could lead to fines, a tarnished brand, and high employee turnover.
- ESD selection needs to take place in conjunction with several departments and stakeholders to ensure the right vendor is chosen to meet the various needs and capabilities.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Choosing not to implement ESDs puts your organization at various forms of risk, including financial, legal, and reputational.
- Leverage the knowledge of those from various departments to ensure the impact of ESD implementation is considered by all perspectives. ESDs require several departments to operate and function effectively, and therefore each of those departments should have a voice in the selection process.
- Use the technology already deployed on your property to lower the costs associated with ESD implementation.
Impact and Result
- ESDs empower employees to feel safer during emergency situations and increase the efficiency with which those employees can be located in times of duress.
- Properties that already have an IoT platform or are considering implementing one will have the advantage of already establishing the right network components associated with ESDs.
- Make an informed choice on which vendor will meet the needs of every stakeholder involved in the selection process.
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Guided Implementation 1: ESD preparation
- Call 1: Scope requirements, objectives, and your specific challenges.
- Call 2: Create your ESD working group.
- Call 3: Determine property requirements to be compliant and generate your property’s ESD SWOT.
- Call 4: Identify your property’s current ESD IT readiness.
- Call 5: Conduct business requirements gathering.
Guided Implementation 2: Vendor selection
- Call 1: Review Vendor Landscape and shortlist vendors.
- Call 2: Develop an RFP to send to shortlisted vendors.
- Call 3: Evaluate vendors’ RFPs and demos to select a vendor.
Contributors
- Parminder Batra, CEO & Co-Founder, TraknProtect
- Brandon DeCuir, VP of Marketing, React Mobile
- Dayna Franze, Solutions Consultant, Scatterling
- Vince Grove, VP Marketing, AiRISTA Flow
- Clark Hadden, Sales Development, Vocera
- Brian Kinne, Vice President PinPoint, RF Technologies
- Melinda Kinney, Global Hospitality Manager, BluIP
- Michael Marks, SVP Business Development, ROAR for Good
- David Simpson, VP Product Development, Enseo
- Riise Walker, Global Communications Manager, ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions