Establishing a healthy and safe working environment for lone workers can be different from organizing the health and safety of other crew members - they should not be put at more risk than other crew working onboard.

It will often be safe to work alone. However, managers should think about and deal with any health and safety risks before people are allowed to do so.

One option is to provide these crew members with lone worker protection and emergency calling equipment; thereby improving the chances of a successful outcome should the worst happen.  

Protection can be provided for: - 

• Engineering Areas

• Catering Areas

• Deck Areas (Portable Units)

SOLO is intended to supplement any existing protection system already in place. 

It is often the case that the catering staff - quite often a single person - will find themselves alone in the catering areas / galley for protracted periods i.e. during meal preparations, cooking, washing down…etc. 

SOLO protects workers whilst in the catering areas by detecting their movements using PIR motion sensors.
Detected movement automatically resets the interval timer.

Should a worker remain motionless, through incapacity or otherwise, the interval timer will expire, causing the staged alarms to be triggered.