What is Crisis Management and how does it affect remote workers?

By definition Crisis Management is the practice that comes into force to either react to or prevent a major event that could end with devastating effects.

There is nothing that resembles a crisis more than the potential loss of life. This is sadly something that is all too familiar when you think of scenarios such as military operations, air force incidents and remote workers who have to cope with hostile environments when working trying to help those less fortunate than themselves.

Crisis Management is all about planning. It’s about making the necessary arrangements on how to react should the worst occur. Where possible it’s about preempting situations and being one step ahead of anything that might happen. For remote workers it’s about securing the environment and allowing them to go about their job without having to think about ‘what might happen next’.

Convoys, especially those in remote locations, are totally vulnerable to attack, either through desire of theft or just pure disruption to aid or rescue efforts. This makes driving a convoy a high risk job and crisis management solutions may allow for the convoy to be tracked. This means that a central management base are aware of the location of the convoy at all times and can either react to crisis or offer proactive assistance through redirecting the convoy to avoid conflict.

Remote workers don’t just have to be working in war zones. Another example of a remote worker might be mountain rescue. In such a scenario crisis management training and planning is absolutely essential as natural disasters could happen at any time. GPS technology is of vital importance to mountain rescue teams as it allows for rescue workers or guides to be monitored at all times with minimal disruption.

GPS technology plays a huge part in Crisis management in today’s world, mainly due to its powerful communication and tracking capabilities. Through small, discrete hand held devices remote workers can stay in close communication with support teams back at base or on the ground. Crisis Management teams can become a second set of eyes that have a total overall view on what is going on.

NOMAD - A breakthrough in Communications technology

Think about this...... A MOTOTRBO radio system with inbuilt GPS and panic button. The extensive applications of Nomad redefine risk management.

Nomad simply utilises your existing radio comms and transforms it into a state of the art tracking and crisis management solution. The versatility and low cost of radio with a tracking and emergency alert capability creates an ideal for close protection teams, martime security, miltary, infrastructure and perimeter teams.

The Nomad system comprises of a number of radio hand held devices, with each handset providing the user with personal tracking, panic button and voice communication. Complete integration of the Nomad system into the web-based Track24 C4i platform allows operations staff to monitor all radio users on one common picture from anywhere in the world.

The MOTOTRBO radio is an easy choice of radio for the NOMAD system as each handset has an in-built GPS receiver and transmits its exact location back to a master handset. The frequency of position reporting can be remotely programmed from the C4i platform, from 30 second intervals upwards. No air time costs are associated with the solution due to the fact that it is a radio based system.

For more information on NOMAD, and other risk and crisis management solutions visit the Track 24 web site at www.track24.co.uk