Hampshire, United KIngdom – Churches Fire Security Ltd, a leading provider of fire safety and security solutions, is proud to announce the implementation of Callmy Alert, a cutting-edge lone worker safety solution, for the protection of its staff working in isolation across various sites in the UK.
The new partnership with Callmy, a trusted provider emergency communication services, underscores Churches Fire Security’s ongoing commitment to the health, safety, and well-being of its employees, particularly those working alone in potentially hazardous environments.
Enhancing Lone Worker Security
As part of their continuous efforts to ensure a secure working environment, Churches Fire Security have integrated Callmy Alert with their 24×7 Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) to provide real-time monitoring and comprehensive support for staff members whilst working alone – the ARC providing immediate assistance should an emergency arise.
Callmy Alert’s innovative system offers automated either an app-based capability or a physical device that provide users with timed check-
Birmingham City University Implements Callmy Alert Mass Notification Service, Elevating Campus Safety
Birmingham, UK – October 5, 2024 – Birmingham City University (BCU) is pleased to announce they are implementating the Callmy Alert Mass Notification service, enhancing the safety and communication infrastructure across its campuses and paving the way for compliance with the new “Martyn’s Law” legislation.
This strategic decision was made after a thorough completive analysis was made with similar products used in the sector. Callmy Alert being selected as the most favourable solution both operationally and commercially, offering a superior emergency management and communication solution for students, staff, and visitors.
The Callmy Alert system is renowned for its robust, reliable, and user-friendly mass notification capabilities, with features that also support personal safety and lone working security. It ensures that critical information is disseminated swiftly and effectively during emergencies, such as security incidents, severe weather conditions, or other urgent situations.
The implementation aligns with BCU’s ongoing commitment to providing a safe and secure learning environment, leveraging cutting-edge
Have you noticed the nights are drawing in?
With this in mind, we thought we would share our latest video, which illustrates how the Callmy Alert app can be used to demonstrate your duty of care, by ensuring your staff “get home safely”.
To find out how Callmy Alert can help to support your staff safety, critical communication and lone working security, please click here.
Callmy were delighted to support the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps) at their recent demonstration evening held at their Wellington Barracks HQ.
The event gave their supporters, the recipients of the Corps’ capabilities, employers of Corps members and other guests a chance to see how the FANY (PRVC) deploys, reacts and operates in times of crisis.
The demonstration was set against a real-life scenario and the Corps used their Callmy Alert service to illustrate how it supports the FANY’s rapid emergency deployment, and the mobilisation of their key capabilities. These include:
- First Aid
- Casualty Bureau
- Emergency Rest Centre
- Military Operations Room
The event was a great success and the attendees enjoyed the opportunity to view, first-hand, the vital work the FANY’s deliver.
About the FANY (PRVC)
The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps), founded in 1907, is an all-female voluntary organisation which deploys multi-faceted rapid response teams to support civil and military authorities in times of crisis. These include the City of London Police, HQ London District (Army Headquarters), London Local Authorities (London Councils) and the Voluntary Sector (British Red Cross). In the past three years, FANYs have undertaken over 2,500 days of voluntary support to over 40 organisations.
To find out more about the FANY (PRVC) or to offer support, please click here.
To find out how Callmy Alert can help to support your emergency mobilisation, critical communication and personal safety, please click here.
Join us for a free webinar on Tuesday, 7th November 2023 at 2pm
This webinar aims to provide context for how malicious and terrorist attacks occur. It’s not just about buying security equipment; effective security operations frequently entail looking at the entire attack cycle, including hostile reconnaissance, as well as managing communications and how a team reacts when an attack occurs.
In this 45 minute session we will explore:
– How an attack may be planned and how to identify behavioural triggers
– How security teams can improve their use of detection technology
– How communication plays a critical role in making a response
Our experts will take you through real examples of how we are helping customers today to Prevent, Detect and Respond to security threats and will be on hand in our Q&A session to answer all your questions.
Callmy are delighted to be supporting this event and we hope you can join us. Please here to register: https://lnkd.in/gbQAvZQn
We are pleased to announce the Callmy Alert service now supports a new SMS broadcast feature.
What does the SMS feature provide?
As an alternative to sending messages to user’s Callmy Alert app, you can now also send messages to their mobile as SMS.
Why has SMS been introduced into the service?
We recognise there are some scenarios where you have the responsibility to deliver important messages to end users, but it’s not always practical to install an app on their phone – such as visitors to your sites or temporary contractors – this may currently be a consideration with your plans for Martyn’s Law.
If you now simply add user’s mobile number, via the Callmy Alert Portal, and allocate them to an appropriate message group, they become part of your emergency communication community. In a scenario where you need to lockdown a site or warn of an imminent threat, you know your regular users will receive messages via the app (installed on their phone, table tablet or desktop) and your more informal contacts will be alerted via SMS.
A premium service
As the service will be used for critical situations where a fast response is required, from potentially a large number of users, having a reliable service with none of the normal bottlenecks is vital. We have engineered a carrier class service with a high degree of capacity, with the intelligence to navigate around potential network disruption.
From a resilience perspective the SMS service also creates a useful fallback channel that overcomes situations where data connectivity is lost, possibly due to a cyber-attack, or just isn’t available.
How fast is the delivery?
We have operationalised a “Carrier Class” SMS gateway to support the delivery. Messages are delivered at a rate of 1,000 per second and being carrier class, high levels of resilience and performance are introduced.
We hope you find this feature useful and please contact us to discuss your requirements.
We are pleased to be supporting an IFSEC webinar on the new “Martyn’s Law Protect Duty” with our our partner Peoplesafe.
With the recently published Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, also known as Martyn’s Law, the government have finally started to outline what is expected of Publicly Accessible Locations (PALs). Organising a response and communicating clearly was one of the key issues outlined in the enquiry and is now part of the draft bill.
Communicating across an organisation to ensure the command teams are mobilised quickly and effectively is a vital part to reacting well to a crisis, as is getting the right type of communication to every level of your organisation. With clearer outlines in this draft bill on what is expected by PALs, it is now something that will come more into focus for all those affected by this forthcoming legislation.
When you attend this webinar, you will learn:
- The key expectations from the draft bill
- What the bill expects from PALs with regard to communication
- How to mobilise and communicate to different response levels across an organisation
- How to ensure all communications are clear and consistent
- Ways to audit communications
- Best practice from a real-life case study
Please use this link to register: https://www.ifsecglobal.com/resources-1/webinar-preparing-for-the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-bill-the-role-of-critical-communications/
If you are unable to attend but would like to discuss this subject further, please click here.
During 2022 Callmy were also awarded G Cloud 13 supplier status, which is helping to support the digital transformation of the UK Public Sector.
The G-Cloud framework first opened in 2012 and has now reached its 13th iteration – G-Cloud 13. This latest iteration very recently went live for all suppliers and buyers.
It’s come a long way since its humble beginnings, and even between G-Cloud 11 and 12 we’ve seen progress and positive change to procurement with the framework. There have been 12 calls for contract, so far, in which suppliers were able to list their services on G-Cloud.
You will find Callmy Alert’s services via Lot 2 and please use the links below to access all the details required to procure our services and preferential price packages for the Higher Education sector:
Callmy Alert Mass Notification
Callmy Alert Lone Working
” As well as providing our customers with options to procure Callmy Alert either directly, or from one of our resellers“, commented Tony Watson Founder and CEO of Callmy, “G-Cloud 13 also enables the UK Public Sector to access preferential pricing and terms, to simplify the procurement process. With the advent of the new Protect Duty, and the need to deliver staff safety being more important than ever, we hope G-Cloud will continue to be a useful option“.
About Callmy. Callmy are a UK based technology company who specialise in the development and secure delivery of a mass notification service with integrated personal safety applications. Founded in 2014, the company has developed its capabilities which are deployed in some of the country’s leading financial institutions, the NHS, Central and Local Government, the education sector and various commercial organisations.
Please contact us if you would like to discuss your requirements for mass notification, BS8484 certified lone working security and the delivery of personal safety.
Callmy are pleased to announce they have been rewarded the BS8484 standard, after independent auditing by SSAIB. This award updates Callmy to the latest standard for lone working apps and devices; BS8484:2022.
Why is BS8484 Important
The UK government takes the safety of lone workers very seriously and requires employers to provide their lone workers with ‘adequate and reliable means of communication and a way to “call for help” (in the words of the Health and Safety Executive).
These provisions, as well as a growth in people working as lone workers, has led to an increase in lone worker protection solutions appearing on the market. BS 8484 matters because it sets a high standard of quality for lone worker solution providers to meet, and also gives customers better transparency about what they’re buying into.
What is the difference between BS8484:2016 and BS8484:2022?
In 2022, the The British Standards Institution updated BS8484 to reflect changing technologies and norms, and to improve safety. The sum-up of changes brought in BS 8484:2022 are:
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An acknowledgement that those working in pairs or small groups may be seen as “at risk” and so may benefit from the use of a lone worker system.
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An acknowledgement that those working from home (home workers) should be seen as “lone workers” and could benefit from using a lone working system
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New wording that accepts that calls with lone workers may be made via data, rather than the “traditional” call network.
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A new ruling that states, to be BS 8484 compliant, staff involved in delivering lone working services (typically ARC workers) are to be screened in accordance with BS 7858 (which is the UK standard for vetting of people employed in the security sector)
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The removal of most of the recommendations in Clause 7 (the section on Alarm Receiving Centres), as this is covered in other places (such as BS 5979).
