PNA FREDDY
Emergency call solutions for lone working
PERSONAL EMERGENCY SIGNAL SYSTEM (PNA)
Lone working: FREDDY saves lives
The digital personal emergency call system for safety and protection when working alone: By law, lone working is always the case when a person carries out their work alone and out of calling and visual range of other people. The duration of lone working is irrelevant.
The purpose of a personal emergency signal system (PNA): To immediately call for help for people in distress during lone working – by triggering and transmitting voluntary and involuntary personal alarms. The personal alarm is transmitted wirelessly via cellular network to the receiving unit.
EFFECTIVE EMERGENCY CALL SOLUTION FOR LONE WORKING
Industry | Trades | Warehouse | Archiving
High degree of automation: Individual employees in production facilities, warehouses and logistics. Often associated with severely restricted hearing and visibility.
Building construction and civil engineering | Gardening and landscaping
Increased or critical hazard: Driving and unloading bulk goods, working on large construction sites out of call and sight range, etc.
Agriculture and forestry
Elevated or critical risk: Daily handling of pesticides and fertilizers, work in grain silos, operating large machinery and working in extreme temperatures. Frequently working alone outside of calling and visual range.
Security service | Building cleaning
Frequently work at night or at weekends, often out of call and sight range. Increased risks depending on the area of application.
"FULL SERVICE – ALL IN ONE"
Device + Platform + Connectivity
- Uncomplicated use: FREDDY is ready for immediate use.
- Effective plug-and-play solution: get started right away.
- Cloud-based platform: No software installation or additional infrastructure required.
- Integrated cellular connection: one central, clear billing.
APPLICATIONS
The FREDDY personal emergency signal system (PNA) offers the greatest benefit for organizations that:
- want to reliably protect their employees working alone,
- need to detect and report emergencies early through automatic alarm functions,
- depend on fast and secure alerting in an emergency,
- want to meet legal requirements for protecting lone workers,
- want to digitize and streamline their occupational health and safety processes.
This makes the PNA FREDDY particularly interesting for industrial companies, energy suppliers, logistics and transport companies, municipal operations, utility companies, and service and maintenance organizations where employees regularly work alone or in potentially hazardous work areas and a reliable personal emergency signal solution is critical for their safety.
REQUEST PNASafety solutions for working alone
Overview of hazard levels
Signaling devices
Hazard levels
(Hazard risk in all cases < 30)
Low
Increased
Critical
Wired telephone
Stationary call system
Cordless phone
Cell phone
Radiotelephone
Time-controlled control calls
Dead man’s switch
Constant camera surveillance
Personal emergency signal system – PNA-11
Personal emergency signal system (in accordance with DGUV Rule 112-139)
SELECTABLE PLATFORM MODULES
Choose your individual building blocks for your use case.
- Reliable alerting of all pagers – even with weak signal strength and overloaded networks
- Audible, visual and haptic alerting
- Automatic receipt confirmation
- Complete overview and documentation of the technical reachability of all pagers
- Flexible operational-tactical feedback
- Ideal availability by person and qualification
- Maximum reachability compared to radio-network-based technologies
- Cellular technologies LTE Cat M1 and NB-IoT
- Dual SIM with use of all common networks at home and abroad
- IP-based data protocol
- Four VPN tunnels to two independent providers
- SMS as a reliable fallback level
- Life-saving, immediate alerting
- Personal emergency call system for lone workers
- Voluntary/involuntary personal alarm including location transmission via GPS
- Visual and audible pre-alarm
- IP54-certified, dust- and splash-proof housing
- Practical shirt clip or optional belt clip
- USB-C charging port
- High-performance battery with comfortable battery life of approximately 48 hours
- Radio pager operational in temperature ranges from −20°C to 60°C
- ATEX certification can be implemented as an add-on.
- Intuitive operation via a few buttons and clear menu navigation
- Large, bright, wide-view display
- Instant capture of all alarm texts at a glance, even in unfavorable environments
- Specially implemented shortcuts for faster operation: quick-read function for the last alarm message, emergency call, volume, text size
- Easy configuration and software updates over-the-air via the cellular interface
- Users can start updates themselves or centrally via the server
- If required: Easy implementation of parameterization or group creation by the organization administrator
- In case of loss: remote locking and unlocking of the pager
Risk analysis for lone working
Self-assessment: Determine your risk level now
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the measures to be implemented by companies are based on a required and prescribed risk analysis.
The hazard risk is made up of: 1. the hazard level, 2. the probability of an emergency and 3. the duration until first aid is provided.
RISK = (hazard figure + assessment figure) x emergency probability figure
1. Hazard Levels – Determination of Hazard Rating
Low
Hazard factors that can cause minor injuries or minor acute health impairments to the person working alone. The person remains capable of action
Hazard Rating (HR) 1-3
Elevated
Hazard factors that can cause significant injuries or significant acute health impairments to the person working alone. In an emergency, the person no longer remains capable of action
Hazard Rating (HR) 4-6
Critical
Hazard factors that can cause particularly severe injuries or particularly severe acute health impairments to the person working alone. In an emergency, the person no longer remains capable of action
Hazard Rating (HR) 7-10
2. Probability of Emergency – Determination of Emergency Probability Rating
Low
No emergencies are generally expected, an emergency has hardly occurred or is conceivable so far
Emergency Probability Rating (EP) 1-3
Moderate
Experience shows that emergencies are possible. Under similar working conditions, emergencies have occasionally occurred
Emergency Probability Rating (EP) 4-6
Elevated
Emergencies can be expected even under normal circumstances. Under similar working conditions, emergencies have repeatedly occurred.
Emergency Probability Rating (EP) 7-10
3. Assessment of Time Until Emergency Response Begins at Individual Workplace – Determination of Assessment Rating
Short
Less than 5 minutes
Assessment Rating (AR) 0
Medium
5 – 10 minutes
Assessment Rating (AR) 1
Long
10 – 15 minutes
Assessment Rating (AR) 2
Your Current Risk Assessment (R-Value):
The maximum value of 30 represents an acceptable risk. This means that working alone with constant monitoring is possible.
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV), the risk
must be minimized by additional technical and/or organizational measures if the risk rating exceeds 30.
Caution: If it is not possible to reduce the rating to a maximum of 30, working alone is not permitted!
ACCESSORIES
Power supply unit
The power supply unit is not included in the scope of delivery. However, you can use any standard power supply unit. We would be happy to offer you a suitable one for purchase upon request.
Cables
A cable is not included in the scope of delivery. However, you can use any standard USB-C cable or have us deliver one to you upon request.
Belt clip
The pagers are delivered with a practical shirt clip. If you would also like a belt clip, we would be happy to include this alternative for you.
Pager pouch ALPHA
As a suitable addition, we offer the ALPHA pager bag in black with a high-quality Tenax closure for purchase.
Shirt clip
The pager is delivered with a shirt clip. If you need additional shirt clips, you can order them directly from us.
IOT WORKSHOP – FIRST STEPS
You don’t know where to start and need an
expert by your side?
Together, we will find out what your first steps
towards digitalization will look like!
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQ
Do you have a question about working alone or the legal requirements?
Then these tips and answers will certainly help you: