Ok Alone is introducing Safety Awards!
Keeping your workers safe is important to us. Staying safe is very important to your workers and your company! But just because something is important, doesn’t mean it can’t be fun too!
Ok Alone have introduced Safety Awards, an engaging way to stay safe, while using the lone worker system to compete with colleagues and companies across the world. The program recognises Ok Alone feature usage or when a worker completes a safe shift and rewards them with badges, points and rankings.
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Ok Alone investigated the engagement of lone workers actively using their lone worker systems. Our research found that motivating a workforce to think and act safely by encouraging worker involvement and collaboration can be achieved. The main way to encourage this is by creating a sense of competitiveness and comradery around the company’s main goal, …
Read moreLone Worker Safety Award Rankings for Companies and Lone Workers
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Read moreHow Lone Worker Safety Awards can help your Company
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One industry that seems to be made for gamification is lone working. The mobile nature of lone working makes it almost impossible for staff to physically check in with their employers. Because supervisors of lone workers don’t have a direct line of sight to their workers in an office environment, gamification offers a way to …
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Here at Ok Alone, we have made some improvements to the Safety Awards program introducing Report Cards and Certificates. Report Cards Report Cards are a visual way for workers to see their achievements from each month and be inspired to do better. Each month we take into account a number of safety factors including missed check-ins, location …
Read moreIntroducing Safety Award Certificates and Report Cards
Ok Alone have introduced Safety Awards, an engaging way to help workers stay safe, while using their lone worker protection system. It allows workers to log their safe practises and compete with colleagues and companies across the world. At the end of each month, the worker’s usage in the Ok Alone system is collated and reviewed, they are awarded …