Combined Nurse Call Trigger and Evacuation Siren

Medical emergencies and evacuations need opposite responses. In a medical emergency you want a few trained people to come to one location. In an evacuation you want everyone to leave. Using one alert tone for both gets people moving the wrong way.This device handles both from one unit. The nurse call trigger sends a targeted alert to nominated responders. The evacuation siren sounds when a site evacuation is triggered. Different signal, different response, same hardware. 

Specifications

• Dual function: nurse call alerts and evacuation alerts
• Nurse call trigger can be pressed by anyone on site
• Evacuation siren activated through the TCU or smartphone app
• Real-time battery and signal strength reporting
• Reports to the TCU, smartphone app and web portal
• Mounts on a single backboard with one power connection

App, web portal and real-time reporting require Subscription Services. 

Why anyone can press the nurse call trigger

Restricting the nurse call to trained staff sounds sensible and works badly. The person who finds a collapsed worker is whoever happened to walk past. If they can't raise the alert, they leave the casualty to go find someone who can.Open access on the trigger, controlled access on the response. Anyone raises the alert. Nominated responders receive it, and they can accept or decline so you know someone is actually on the way rather than assuming it. 

Evacuation stays controlled

The evacuation side works differently. Site evacuations activate through the Touchscreen Control Unit or the app, not by pressing the unit. That keeps the decision with the people who should be making it.If you want an evacuation trigger anyone can press, that's the combined evacuation trigger and siren instead. Plenty of sites run both: open evacuation triggers at exits, this unit at work faces and crib rooms. 

Where these go

Put them where injuries happen and where people rest, not where the drawing looks tidy:

• Work faces and active zones
• Crib rooms and amenities
• Plant rooms and workshops
• Loading docks and laydown areas
• Isolated positions where a worker may be alone

Under regulation 43 of the model WHS Regulations, your emergency plan must provide for medical treatment and assistance as well as evacuation. A first aid kit on the wall isn't a mechanism for summoning help. This is. 

Battery and signal reporting

The unit reports its own battery and signal strength. That matters more on nurse call devices than on sirens, because a flat nurse call trigger fails silently and nobody notices until the day someone needs it.With Subscription Services active, that status appears on the TCU, the app and the web portal. Without them, you check the device by hand.Tell us where injuries and near misses have happened on your site and we'll map device positions against that history. Call 1800 273 473 or start with your incident register.