If you are still using staff members who are on-call to deal with your office alarm, you may need to consider:

• Work/life balance; over weekends and on Bank/Public holidays
• Corporate Manslaughter Act – owners, Directors & Managers at risk
• Disturbed sleep at night
• Forced to leave spouse and children alone at home for extended periods
• Arranging an emergency child minder
• Are they a drink driving risk, how soon can they drive after having their last drink?
• Driving whilst tired, half asleep and rushing to respond at night
• Next day fatigue, ineffective in meetings, dangerous in charge of machines
• What happens when they take holiday or are off sick, who else can you rely on to cover their role?
• Health & safety of employees whilst on site, at night, alone
• Lone worker compliance, what’s your hourly check call system?
• Late for work the following morning or possibly an emergency day off
• It may cost you more, through extra pay or time off in lieu if staff are on-call
• They may be entering a potentially dangerous situation, with the risk of disturbing intruders
• Untrained and vulnerable staff, the work place often looks and feels very different at night…

Your building is secure

With PatrolGuard acting as your main key holder, one of our mobile patrol units will be quickly dispatched to your premises in the event of any alarm activation. We will find out why the alarm activated, and quickly resolve any issues. We will take responsibility for the building and ensure that it is secure, calling the Police if necessary. We will reset the alarm, and leave you a report for the morning.

Your staff are safe

No concerns about Director’s responsibilities (or liabilities); your staff are not in danger and their sleep is not interrupted. Our people are robust, intelligent and well-trained, and armed with common-sense. Our responders are monitored and tracked by our Duty Manager, who will send backup if necessary. One way or another, if there is a problem we will escalate it, until it is fixed.