Hotel Staff Panic Button for the State of Washington: Senate Bill 5258
Effective January 1, 2020, all hotels and motels in the State of Washington with sixty rooms or more must provide employees with personal panic buttons. Senate Bill 5258 has been passed to avoid sexual harassment and sexual assault of isolated workers. The Department of Labor is expected to provide guidance and assistance regarding the implementation of panic buttons. Hotels and motels with less than sixty rooms have an additional year and must comply by January 1, 2021.
How can Scatterling help your hotel in the State of Washington with Senate Bil 5258?
Proactive notifications
Scatterling does not require a worker to signal for help manually. For example, if a housekeeper was to get in trouble and can’t call for help, Scatterling will sound an alarm once the timer expires and notifies other co-workers and the housekeeping manager that they need help.
HIGH RISK CHECK-IN TIMERS:
A housekeeper cleaning a room at odd hours of the night can customize the check-in timer of the app to suit a high-risk scenario by shortening the check-in duration to under 15 minutes. If a staff member does not check-in within this set interval, all of the emergency contacts set to receive notifications will be contacted immediately. If a housekeeper was to enter a room in the middle of the night, they may be confronted with hotel guests who are irate or intoxicated. If they did not confirm they are safe after the scheduled room visit, our lone worker monitoring app will immediately notify a monitor of a possible emergency. The monitor will be sent the exact location, and any other details the housekeeper has previously supplied, such as voicemails and work itinerary.
Emergency Panic button:
Scatterling also has integration to manually signal for help with a blue tooth panic button. When triggered, all of the emergency contacts will be notified of a confirmed emergency, and sent any voicemails that have previously recorded, details of location, and work profile.
FULL DEVICE INTEGRATION:
Scatterling’s lone worker app can be used on any device, such as smartphones, laptops, landlines, and pagers, that employees might already be carrying with them. Therefore, they do not need to carry any new or excess equipment with them at any time.
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