NEW GUARDTEK FEATURE UPDATES
Here you are the last and most important updates of GuardTek both for Post and M-Post:
Set Conditions
- You are now able to get notifications based on how a specific report is answered.
- When the user answers a field in a “particular manner”, that answer can trigger a notification to a specific person or group of people. Let´s see an example: You have an “accident report”, then, It appears an incident with a question “Did you call the police?” if the officer answer is “No” then you don’t send an email, it’s not important. If the answer is “Yes”, then you want to send an email to the general manager, so he knows that the police will come. You have also the option to mix the condition. Let´s use another example for maintenance reports. You can have a question like “type of issue”:
1. Door blocked
2. Window broken
3. Water on the floor
for the response 1 and 2 you would send the report to the maintenance service and for 3 you would want to send to the cleaning service. It can really be useful in a lot of different cases.
Image Canvas
The main request from our customers was to be able to do “vehicle inspection”. With this update the officer would inspect the vehicle and then draw on the picture the places where there are dents or cracks in the car.
- You can now add an image to a report and have the user draw on top of the image. This is quite useful in the case of a vehicle inspection or an injury report.
- A diagram of a vehicle or person can be added to the template. The reporting officer can then use this diagram to indicate where the damage or injury is located.
How can you use this?
Both of these updates are in regard of Incident and Event Reporting. They improve the process by getting more detailed information and more detailed notification.
If you need more detailed information about our updates please contact to support@trackforce.com
Article Resource: http://www.trackforce.com/new-guardtek-feature-updates-2/
Important Tips for Security Patrol Guards while Performing Their Duty
Security patrol guards walk day and night around properties they are assigned to secure. They provide a safe and secure environment to the property and prevent violence and thefts. Unlike normal security officers, security patrol officers do not secure small business, gates or personal premises. They work for the state or a local law enforcement department or a big organization or property. They Patrol and respond to emergencies such as robberies, kidnappings, assaults, homicides and other incidents in only a particular geographic area. When they are appointed on highways and roadways, they control traffic, issue citations and arrest criminals. At the time of accidents, they assess damage, assist injured motorists and assist other local law enforcement agencies. These duties require patrol officers to be in good physical condition. It requires a lot of energy and smartness to make right decisions at crime scenes. Here we have got some tips for security patrol officers that they can follow while working in the field.
Always Stay Awake in the Field:
I know it is hard to stay awake while doing long hours while patrolling in shifts. But staying awake is the most important thing that a security patrol officer should work on. It is very difficult to stay awake when your eyelids start drooping and your head starts bobbing down. Here you have to apply some common sense tips to get rid of feeling sleepy.
- Eat nutritious and small meals.
- Eat in small breaks.
- Drink a lot of water.
- Get a good scheduled sleep.
- Make a routine for exercise.
When all of these do not work, just take a pinch of coffee grounds and put it between your cheek and lower gum, it is similar to chewing tobacco. It might taste nasty and bitter, but it will surely work. A pinch of coffee grounds will easily get into your system within 5 to 10 minutes, which is faster than drinking a cup of coffee.
Do Not Have any Doubts about Patrolling Parameters
To ensure the effectiveness of guard tour system, it is very important for security officers to know about the different parameters of tours such as patrolling timing, intervals timing and tour routes. It is important that patrol officers should not have any doubts about how to execute guard tour but should be aware of specific actions that are required to accomplish in predefined time. Security patrol officers are also expected to be aware of predefined routes to follow while managing staff. They should know appropriate directions as to how security patrols are executed.
Always Carry Required Security Equipments
Do not forget to carry important security equipment with you. As a security patrol officer, carry security equipment that you are allowed to carry such as a gun, baton, pepper spray and knife. Security equipment is an important item that every security patrol officer should carry in their duty belt. Always have a quick access to your security equipment so that you can fight and protect yourself in a critical situation. Ensure that your defensive gear is in good working order. Carry a light torch or wear a helmet torch for night tours. Make sure your light equipment is working and will not fail during tours. Wear a chest west inside your uniform and make sure you are wearing a comfortable pair of shoes.
Physical Security Incident Management Software: Improving the Effectiveness of Incident Management in Hospitals
Physical security incident management software is an important tool for managing overall incidents of hospitals related to patients, staff, emergencies, events, information security breaches and medical errors. It is a life saving tool and a powerful software application that helps hospitals to manage their incidents. It centralizes all incident information and important data of the hospital into a one easy-to-use system. Let’s have a look at the number of features of physical security incident management software that helps hospitals to promote security and working efficiency across the healthcare organization.
- Real-time communication within hospital
Physical security incident management software helps to establish a real-time and smooth communication across the hospital organization. Its incident reporting system has a real- time communication capability that helps hospitals managing daily emergency operations of all levels from one centralized platform.
- Physical security incident management software notifies responders about incidents in real-time
Physical security incident management software with the use of its real-time communication capabilities and critical situational awareness tools notifies hospital’s key security officers or supervisors, and keep them aware and informed about the upcoming crises.
- Enhance security of the hospital organization
Physical security incident management enhances the security of the hospital by monitoring the real-time incidents at all level. It speeds up the process of documenting in the hospital and creates a culture of broader safety awareness.
- Deals with adverse incidents effectively
Adverse incidents like medical frauds, information security breaches, kickbacks and medical errors are the problems that are found in every healthcare organization. Physical security incident management software is a preventive solution that helps healthcare organizations to get rid of these types of adverse incidents. It gives a healthcare organization a wide view of all recordable near-miss cases.
- Better documentation of records
Physical security incident management software consistently documents the record of events including outcomes and corrective actions. Healthcare emergency providers do not have to search for emergency information anywhere, with the help of incident reporting software; they can easily have a consolidated view of their critical information like Patient/Triage tracking, Reunification, Hazard Vulnerability, Casualty tracking, Evacuation tracking and Bed Availability.
- Helps to follow-up corrective actions
Physical security incident management software also helps hospital emergency managers to follow up corrective actions. With the use of physical security incident management software hospital emergency managers can coordinate and effectively manage incidents in real-time. They can easily build up future operational plans, formulate comprehensive periodic reports, track information requests, and maintain correct records of hospital incidents. They can also leverage analytic data to form physical incident reporting software and identify risky trends. Hospital managers can proactively implement suggested corrective actions by the software, which can ultimately help to prevent emergencies.
Patrol Monitoring System a must have for ports with high tendency of smuggling
In this modern age of technology each and every thing is managed by highly developed technology. It is a dangerous task to do patrolling on ports and at borders but thanks to the new technology and Monitoring system that has been developed, which helps in curbing cross border trafficking and smuggling.
Modern solution for guard touring is to have all activity reports and logs. In modern patrol monitoring system deployment of RFID and NFC on patrol routes and providing mobile devices help to send real time data and activity to the centralised system.
Guard tour patrol system is a system where it becomes essential for employee to take his round in different situations for example patrolling property or port. It really helps make sure that the employee does his or her patrolling work at the correct intervals and can offer virtual records for legal or insurance reasons. This type of system was there from so long using mechanical watch clock-based systems. But the modern systems are based on handheld data loggers and RFID sensors.
Fundamentally, the patrol system provides and maintains the record of time of the patrolling guard for reaches at certain important points on their tour. It of course makes sure the fact that the employee is reached at all given points and he is safe and can capture and send the real time pictures from his mobile devices. Checkpoints are placed at extreme ends of the tour route and at critical points.
An example of a modern set-up might work as follows: The employee carries a portable electronic sensor or mobile device which is connected with central data centre. Scan NFC/RFID tag checkpoints at strategic site locations using mobile technology sending real-time updates via email. Confirm tours in real-time using survivable tour tags; deliver detailed and accurate tour logs
Real time event and activity reporting- while guard on patrolling they can send or submit real time event and activity reports to the administrator through their mobile devices , they can send media as well as text reports of the check points. Patrol monitoring system is centralised, so it will create trust and credibility for the stake holder.
Attendance- As ports and boarders are so vast and it’s not possible to take attendance of guards at common point, so modern monitoring system help to solve this issue. Guard can report his in or out via his mobile device. This will help increase efficiency at work place.
Location finder- In modern system, we can find the geo location of the guard and it will at the time of emergency. As GPS keep tracking the location of employee so it’s easy to send the help at the time of emergency.
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