Lone Ranger - Lone Worker Systems

Under Health and Safety Law employers have a duty of care towards their staff across all industry sectors including farming and equine industry. Too often we here stories of workers being seriously injured or killed due to a fall, trip, slip, accident or being thrown from a horse or crushed by a loose or animal.

Lone working strictly speaking is illegal and we all break the law when we ask people involved with heavy animals which includes horses to work alone. Whether the person is riding a horse, exercising it in a school, mucking out a stable, washing a horse, lunging, long reining, there are serious risks. 

The Lone Ranger is a Lone Worker System comprises of a series of wireless emergency call points that are installed around a stable yard or riding school. The call points are battery powered, water proof and can be easily operated wearing gloves. In emergency the button is pressed transmitting a coded message back to a single or multiple remote receivers that raise the alarm using a low level siren so as not to panic the horses.

In practice a system may comprise of as many call points are you wish and as many receivers all dotted around the yard. If required the receivers can also be linked into reporting systems such as PMR radios, walky talkies, pagers and mobile telephones extending the coverage from a few hundred of meters to many km.