Having recently travelled overnight on the uk roads, i never fail to be surprised by the lack of traffic that is out there overnight. It's no wonder so many businesses are looking at increasing their lone worker and night working fleet in order to take advantage of the time and money savings.
Undertaking night and overnight work shifts come with extra safety considerations for both your employees and assets, so the rise in purchase of vehicle tracking systems and lone worker assistance is no real surprise.
Although they might seem like an unwanted cost initially, these types of tracking systems can (in the long term) be time and money savers as well as a useful KPI tool in managing your customer expectations.
Fleet Tracking Systems
Keeping your office based staff to a minimum is obviously necessary when employees on site or driving are working overnight. Using a tracking system with the personnel or vehicles will allow you to watch their movements and journey details from any internet based pc and depending on the amount of office work required to monitor this, can make it easier to manage your wage costs.
Lone worker tracking systems
If you have workers on site without a vehicle then a lone worker tracking system alone can be useful. This equipment will feed back the same information as a vehicle system, but can be kept by the worker on a belt or in a handbag for ease of transportation whilst out. It also has the added benefit of a personal alarm that can be activated in an emergency situation.
Other lone worker systems
There are many other things you can do to assist the safety of your vehicles, equipment and workers whilst they are out. Procedures such as signing in and out as well as high visability clothing can assist with this.
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