How Medical Alarms Provide Peace of Mind
It can sometimes be scary or worrying to leave an elderly relative home alone. Unfortunately, some seniors have difficulty walking up and down stairs, getting in and out of the bathtub and performing other daily tasks. There is also the risk of a medical emergency. However, many seniors also wish to remain in their own homes and have the independence to live life the way they see fit. How do you balance these two conflicting scenarios?Medical alarm systems can greatly reduce the stress and worry that can be associated with seniors living at home alone. With an emergency medical alarm, your elderly relatives can continue to live the independent lives they are used to without being concerned about health problems or slips and falls. You’ll also be able to relax since you’ll know that your loved ones are just a button press away from emergency help, 24 hours a day.
SafeTech Alarm Systems offers lightweight, compact and waterproof emergency response pendants and wireless emergency wall communicators that allow seniors to live lives without worry. Medical alarms make it easier for seniors to live the lives they’re accustomed and they give family members the peace of mind that their loved ones are being protected.
Emergency medical alarm systems from SafeTech have the best range in the industry, so they’ll even work in your driveway, garage or backyard. This means that you can be a button push away from emergency help even when you’re doing yardwork, gardening or working outside your home for any reason. You’ll be able to do all of the tasks you’re used to with the added protection of two-way voice support from our central monitoring station.
Two-way voice medical alarms from SafeTech feature:
- The worlds smallest two-way voice personal communicator pendant
- Direct communication with our central monitoring station 24 hours a day, seven days a week
- The best range in the industry: Hundreds of feet from the base station
- Crystal clear two-way voice communication with the central station
- All pendants and wall communicators check in with the base every 13 hours
- The central station is contacted in the event of a power outage, low battery or RFC signal loss Unlimited talk time with the central monitoring station.
Medical alarm pendants are small enough to be worn on your wrist or on a chain around your neck. They’re completely waterproof, so you can even wear one in the shower or bath.
Please contact SafeTech Alarm Systems for more information.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
There are a number of ways to prevent criminals from breaking into your home or business. Alarm systems, security cameras, window bars and gates and other security technology are vital to keeping your property safe from criminals. However, it has also been proven that proper design can reduce crime and the fear of crime in a neighbourhood or a particular property. Read our tips for crime prevention through environmental design. A combination of security technology and natural surveillance, access control and other techniques can make an area safer and drastically reduce crime. Crime prevention through environmental design is a multi-disciplinary approach to determine criminal behaviour through design techniques. The ideas of crime prevention through environmental design have been practiced and refined for quite some time. Today these tactics are used in both residential and commercial environments to limit the opportunity for crime and to also reduce the fear of crime in a given area. Urban planners and those designing neighbourhoods and commercial areas such as office parks or shopping centers often take safety and security into account when creating a design.There are several ways that you can use these tactics to protect your home or office. For example, a key aspect of crime prevention through environmental design is the idea of “natural surveillance.” This means creating an environment that maximizes visibility and increases the ability to spot suspicious people or activities. This technique can be used in your home quite effectively.
For example, you should ensure that your home’s main entrance is clearly visible from the street and that there are no bushes or shrubs located nearby where criminals could hide. Installing motion-activated security lighting over all entrances will increase visibility at night and make it more difficult for criminals to act without being caught. There are many safety benefits of environmental design.
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Hazardous Gases in your Home
Criminals are not the only danger to your home that could strike at any time. They’re also not the only issue that you can protect yourself from by utilizing the right technology. Hazardous gases such as carbon monoxide can be incredibly dangerous and even lethal if they allowed to build up in your home undetected.Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odorless, tasteless and initially non-irritating gas that is very difficult for people to detect without specialized equipment. On average, 170 people in the United States die each year from carbon monoxide produced by non-automotive consumer products and thousands more are hospitalized with non-lethal carbon monoxide poisoning.
Carbon monoxide can be produced by a number of different consumer products. Furnaces, ranges, water heaters, gas and kesosene heaters, portable generators, fireplaced and a number of other fuel-burning appliances can produce carbon monoxide, especially if the appliance is malfunctioning.
The symptoms of mild carbon monoxide poisoning include lightheadedness, confusion, headaches, vertigo and flu-like symptoms as well as depression, confusion, and memory loss. Greater exposure can lead to central nervous system and heart damage as well as death.
Carbon monoxide is best detected with a functioning carbon monoxide detector. For more information on carbon monoxide and monitored carbon monoxide detectors, please visit our website.
However carbon monoxide isn’t the only hazardous gas that you will need to watch out for. For example, elevated levels of radon gas also lead to health problems and even death. Like carbon monoxide, radon gas is colourless, odorless and tasteless. It is a radioactive gas and can cause lung cancer. Radon comes from the natural breakdown of uranium in soil, rock and water. It can get into any type of building through cracks and holes. Radon can get trapped inside a building and build up to incredibly dangerous levels without you even noticing.
Nearly 1-in-15 homes in the United States has elevated radon levels. Thankfully, there are a number of different radon test kits that you can use to check for elevated radon levels.
Workplace Security
Most people spend a large percentage of their lives in the workplace. Other than your own home, you likely spend more time in your workplace than in any other location. Therefore, it makes sense that you would want to stay safe at work.Whether you are an employee or an employer, there are several things you can do to improve workplace security. Employers often set up the company’s security systems, maintain these systems and set the tone for a safe workplace, but that doesn’t mean employees cannot help with these security efforts.
Accurate and consistent risk assessment is important in every workplace. Every company, no matter the size, should carry out its own risk assessment study to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the company, the building that the company is located it and the organization’s practices. SafeTech Alarm Systems offers a free risk assessment for both homes and businesses. Please contact us for more information. A company should also formulate contingency plans that can come into effect should an emergency situation occur. Additional security measures may be required in an emergency.
All employees should be trained and made aware of a company’s security policies and emergency plans. They should also be aware of how to correctly act if their security is threatened. Employees that are assigned specific roles in a company’s security policy (such as locking the office doors for the night, activating the office’s alarm system, securing company documents in a locked room or filing cabinet, etc.) should be given detailed instructions on their roles and all employees should practice their security roles regularly to ensure that they understand their duties exactly.
Employees play another vital role in maintaining security in the workplace. All employees should be trained to recognize threats and properly report them. For example, employees in a retail store should be trained to identify potential shoplifters. There should be a procedure in place to report suspicious customers without causing a panic or scaring customers out of the store. Employees should also be trained to look out for weaknesses in a company’s security technology. For example, if an employee notices that an exterior light is burned out or that a window does not lock properly, the employee should promptly report this flaw to the correct person who can arrange for it to be fixed.
Information security is also incredibly important. Your company should have detailed information technology security procedures and all employees should be trained to follow these procedures. Some tips include choosing safe passwords for your computer, always storing critical information in password protected files and safe Internet browsing. Physical documents that contain personal or private information should be stored securely and access to these documents should be strictly controlled.
There are a number of ways to prevent criminals from breaking into your home or business. Alarm systems, security cameras, window bars and gates and other security technology are vital to keeping your property safe from criminals. However, it has also been proven that proper design can improve crime prevention efforts by reducing crime and the fear of crime in a neighbourhood or property.