Handheld GPS tracking is mostly used by lone workers. This type of tracking system is not to improve productivity or decrease fuel bills like vehicle tracking. This type of GPS tracking is all about increasing personal safety.
Nurses often go out on call to see patients. Whilst out on call they can be at increased risk of attack from patients as they are often on their own with the patient in the patient’s home. This leaves them very venerable to attack.
For this reason nurses are often given lone worker tracking to help give them piece of mind and help them in the unfortunate event of being attacked. A handheld tracking system which the nurse can about their person or in their bag has a panic button on it. When it is pressed it alerts the Police who are then able to quickly locate the individual and get to the scene as soon as possible. Such systems help to keep nurses much safer than they would otherwise be.
Lone worker protection systems are becoming more and more popular as NHS and private health care companies see them as an effective way of improving the safety of their medical staff.
