Latest survey from OmegaIP shows that 21% of those surveyed had no sort of monitoring system in place for lone workers, 42% indicated that the organization simply supplied a mobile phone and 40% agreed that technology would be their preferred solution. The latest survey from OmegaIP shows that 39% of organisations are aware of verbal threats to lone workers in the last 12 months with 28% of these reporting up to 10 incidents. Of the people surveyed 36% were aware of physical threats to workers in the last 12 months and 31% were also aware of unsupervised accidents to lone workers in the last 12 months.

Respondents were asked to identify what types of lone workers they had with the most popular at 31% being off site, and a close second 30% being out of hour's workers, such as shift staff and late office workers.

Those polled were also asked what types of hazards their lone workers faced, 18% of people worried about verbal abuse and 17% of people worried about physical attack.

The majority of people (40%) feared unsupervised accidents and their response to them, yet 21% of those surveyed had no sort of monitoring system in place and of those that did 42% just supplied mobile phones.