The news media often feature incidents such as chemical leaks or fires that occur on manufacturing and processing plants, which is an indicator of the high level of public interest in safety issues on local production plants. As it is inevitable that accidents will happen the authorities expect management to ensure that protective systems are in place to safeguard both personnel and the environment. As radios are generally used as a means of communications it makes economic sense to utilize them to protect personnel. Current Motorola hand-portables are equipped with invaluable health and safety features such as emergency and lone worker alarms. Exploiting these features is a cost effective means of protecting workers and the added benefit of having both voice communications and emergency alarm in a single, compact handset cannot be ignored.
Radio Alarm Feature
Motorola's current Professional Range of multi-channel hand-portables features a push button alarm with programmable operation modes. Activation of the alarm sends a signal across the radio system that is heard by everyone in the group and an appropriate base station with display may be programmed to identify the radio that is transmitting the alarm.
Radio System Alarm
The alarm system may be developed to include plant alarms, as well as personal distress signals, capable of transmitting pre-recorded voice messages to specific radio groups, such as security or first aid.
Radio Telephone Interconnect Alarm
Further, your radio system could be linked to the telephone system so that an alarm could be routed to a specific radio, group of radios or to a telephone number. Should the teleconnect happen to be in use when the alarm is raised the conversation would be terminated in order to ensure that the message got through.
