How Tait's Lone Worker Safety Features Actually Work
Think of these features as a safety net that works even when the person who needs it can't ask for help. Three things happen automatically, without anyone at head office needing to be watching a screen the whole time.
Man Down Detection
A tilt sensor and timer built into the radio recognises a fall or an abnormal angle and automatically sends dispatch an alert, no button press required.
Lone Worker Check-Ins
The radio prompts a check-in at intervals your team sets. Miss one, and dispatch gets an alarm that the worker may need help.
GPS Location Services
Built-in GPS gives dispatch the worker's exact location the instant an alert fires, cutting the time it takes to actually reach them.
Discreet Emergency Key
A programmable emergency key lets a worker raise an alert quietly, without escalating or alerting whoever might be causing the problem.
The genuine strength here is that Man Down and Lone Worker don't rely on the worker being conscious, calm, or able to reach a phone. That's the entire point. If they can't call for help, the radio does it for them.
Which Tait Radios Support These Features
This is where a lot of generic write-ups go vague, so let's be specific. Man Down, Lone Worker and GPS aren't a separate add-on module, they're built into Tait's current portable and mobile radio ranges, which Mobile Systems supplies and configures.
- Portables: the Tait TP9555 and TP9560, and the tougher multiband TP9755, TP9760, TP9765 and TP9770, all carry a colour screen and the safety feature set expected of a modern Tait portable.
- Mobiles: the Tait TM9315 includes GPS and Lone Worker capability as standard, with the more capable TM9355 available for larger, more complex fleets.
- Hazardous environments: the Tait TP9361 intrinsically safe portable brings the same safety features to sites where a standard radio isn't rated for use.
Here's Tait's own overview of how the campus safety concept comes together in practice.
Whichever model suits your fleet, we configure it to your channel plan before it leaves our workshop, so it works seamlessly alongside radios you already have.
Getting Alerts to the Right Person: Dispatch and Monitoring
An alert is only useful if someone actually sees it. Tait Dispatcher Software gives your control room a live view of radio traffic, worker locations and active alerts, so a Man Down or missed check-in shows up immediately rather than getting lost.
For larger or higher-risk sites, this can also integrate with gates, sirens and building management systems, letting a single alert trigger a broader response where that's genuinely needed. For most campuses and mid-sized sites, the radio features and a monitored dispatch console are enough on their own.
Is This the Right Fit for Your Site?
This suits any site where people genuinely work alone or out of sight for periods of time. That covers university and hospital campuses with maintenance and security staff moving through empty buildings after hours, utilities workers out at substations, and industrial sites with staff working solo shifts or isolated plant checks.
It's less necessary if your team is always within easy shouting distance of a colleague, or a mobile phone with reliable signal genuinely covers your risk. Be honest about your actual site conditions rather than adding features because they sound impressive. The right setup is the one that matches your real risk, not the longest feature list.
