Blackline Safety Adds Industrial Contact Tracing Capability to Its Intrinsically Safe Cloud-Connected Wearables
April 27 2020 - 8:17AM
Business Wire
Helping companies safely get back to work, Blackline’s new
COVID-19 contact tracing is available to current and future
customers at no additional cost
Major smartphone vendors and software companies are developing
contact tracing technology to assist governments and healthcare
providers to understand and slow the infection rate of COVID-19.
Most industrial businesses cannot allow employees to take
smartphones onto worksites due to their lack of intrinsic safety
certification, leaving a contact tracing gap.
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Blackline Safety Corp. (TSXV: BLN), a global leader of
cloud-connected safety and gas detection solutions, launched a new
contact tracing tool for industrial businesses that picks up where
smartphone-based solutions leave off. Blackline’s industrial
contact tracing makes it easy to proactively monitor a business’
social distancing effectiveness and trace person-to-person contacts
if an employee tests positive. Such active measures help to improve
employee confidence and morale, knowing that the business has
further control over the health and wellbeing of every worker.
Blackline has launched its new Close Contact report, immediately
available to all current and future customers in its cloud-hosted
Blackline Analytics software. This new report supports users of G7
safety wearables during work hours, to map the close interactions
between employees. After hours and off the worksite, Blackline’s
Loner Mobile smartphone app is available to provide complete
tracing coverage for businesses and their personnel. Blackline’s
Close Contact report and other contact tracing tools comply with
the strictest privacy regulations including the EU’s GDPR and allow
businesses to respect the privacy of the employee while keeping
them safe.
“The launch of our contact tracing tools comes just ahead of
tomorrow’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work, which exists to
promote the safety and wellbeing of employees in the workplace,”
said Sean Stinson, VP Sales and Product Management for Blackline
Safety. “The COVID-19 outbreak only amplifies the need for
connected safety technology at work, as organizations deemed
essential have been forced to respond quickly with additional
methods to ensure their workers remain safe. Our new contact
tracing tools will help businesses proactively monitor their social
distancing performance and, should an employee contract COVID-19 or
present with symptoms, this report will help them identify points
of close employee contact inside their organization.”
Blackline helps to protect more than 60,000 people worldwide,
many working in industries such as utilities, energy,
transportation, manufacturing and others that are critical during
the response to and recovery from the global pandemic. A
combination of Blackline’s connected safety wearables, smartphone
app, location technology, cloud-hosted software and data analytics
reporting provides a complete solution for enterprise contact
tracing.
Contact tracing tools are a key component of Blackline’s
comprehensive suite of connected worker technology that help to
ensure an efficient response to help contain an exposure.
- Blackline Live History View
- Enables businesses to geographically retrace a worker’s steps
in the event of him or her presenting with symptoms or testing
positive for the virus
- New Close Contact Blackline Analytics report
- Helps to limit the spread of COVID-19 by helping businesses
identify locations where workers regularly come into close
contact
- Produces a list of all other Blackline device users that an
individual worker interacted with over a configurable period of
time
With these new tools, Blackline is helping its customers fight
the spread of the virus, potentially saving lives while also
supporting the safe production and delivery of essential goods and
services. Blackline is offering a webinar, e-Learning course and
other resources to help businesses keep their workers safe during
the pandemic. Learn more at
www.blacklinesafety.com/contact-tracing.
About Blackline Safety: Blackline Safety is a global
connected safety leader that helps to ensure every worker gets
their job done and returns home safe each day. Blackline provides
wearable safety technology, personal and area gas monitoring,
cloud-connected software and data analytics to meet demanding
safety challenges and increase productivity of organizations in
more than 100 countries. Blackline Safety wearables provide a
lifeline to tens of thousands of men and women, having reported
over 100 billion data-points and initiated over five million
emergency responses. Armed with cellular and satellite
connectivity, we ensure that help is never too far away. For more
information, visit BlacklineSafety.com and connect with us on
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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