Travel Safety App
Travelsafe
Get staff safely from A to B
Employees enter their start point, destination and how they’re travelling – just like a regular travel app.
Travelsafe calculates how long the journey should take and generates an estimated arrival time alongside a timed alarm. If your employee hasn’t reached their destination by the ETA, the alarm is activated.
Alarms are answered in under 6 seconds (on average) and handled by expertly trained controllers in the Peoplesafe Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC).
Reassuring check-ins
To help your people feel even safer, automated check-ins can be scheduled at set points during their journey (e.g. every 15 minutes).
The app will send regular notifications, or ‘welfare checks’ asking the staff member to confirm if they’re okay.
- If they respond ‘no’ to a welfare check, an SOS alarm will automatically be raised to the Peoplesafe ARC.
- If they don’t respond at all, the app will send further prompts and calls. If these go unanswered, an SOS alarm call is sent to the ARC who will start the escalation process to get help.
Faster help in an emergency
Staff can save important information about their journey in real time. If an alarm is raised, ARC Controllers can use these notes to make quick decisions about what help is needed.
Important information could be the:
- registration number of the taxi
- planned route
- names of travel companions
Safer travels
When your employee arrives at their destination safely, the timed alarm will be cancelled automatically.
If their journey is taking a bit longer than expected, the Travelsafe app sends them a prompt to extend the timer (if safe to do so).
Emergency help – fast
If the ETA expires and your employee hasn’t arrived at their destination or responded to prompts and calls, an SOS alarm will automatically be raised. The Peoplesafe ARC will respond to the alarm and get help directly to your staff member.
Frequently Asked Questions
Based on your destination and mode of travel, an automated alarm is set for your ETA. Throughout the journey, you will receive regular welfare check-ins to make sure you’re safe. If, at any point, the response is ‘no,’ or if you fail to respond to welfare checks and subsequent prompts or follow-up calls, an SOS alarm is immediately raised to Peoplesafe’s control centre.
If you fail to reach your destination, or don’t respond to automated check-ins, the control centre will contact you to make sure you’re safe.
Once you arrive safely at your destination, the app uses your location to automatically close the timer, so that you don’t have to remember to cancel it.
No, Travelsafe is an optional extra on the Peoplesafe app. There is an additional subscription charge to use this professional service.
Travelsafe uses the phone’s built-in location services to determine the journey start point and the person’s location throughout – just like a regular travel app.
10 minutes prior to the ETA, Travelsafe will recalculate the arrival time and automatically extend the timer if necessary (e.g. due to heavier traffic conditions).
When the person gets within a 10 metre radius of their destination, the timer will automatically cancel.
Yes, Travelsafe is available on iOS and Android.
