Platform
iOS
App type
Native Swift / SwiftUI
Requirement
iPhone 11 or later · iOS 16+
- Background fall detection
- CoreLocation precise GPS
- HealthKit vitals (HR, SpO₂)
- Live activity SOS countdown
App StoreAvailable
UK lone-worker safety platform · BS 8484-aligned
Get help to your lone workers in seconds.
Vygard. So no-one works alone.
Vygard is a lone-worker safety platform. Your staff carry a phone app with SOS, fall detection and check-ins. The moment something's wrong — a panic press, a missed check-in, a man-down — Vygard escalates to the right person in seconds, with the worker's live location, and logs every step for your HSE/CQC audit. Howie, our AI watcher, adds a second pair of eyes on every shift.
12 sector packs from care to ATEX oil & gas, with custom packs in ~6 weeks.
Event types
Clock-on accepted
Man-down · cancelled by worker
Welfare check confirmed
Vitals nominal · driver shift 2/4
- Live in 10 working days
- No hardware required
- BS 8484-aligned
- UK-hosted (eu-west-2)
vygard.com/dashboard
On shift
7
Open alerts
2
Sites
3
Marcus Reid · Man down00:08
Accelerometer spike + 8s stillness. Worker did not cancel countdown.
On shift now7 lone · 2 in pairs
- Priya ShahCare · checked in 4m ago
- Tom ElleryForestry · on the move
- Dan OkaforSecurity · check-in due 2m
Howie · AI watcherlive
Dan's check-in is trending late on a lone night patrol — I've nudged him and pre-briefed the on-call manager.
Voice dispatcherMQTT liveAI anomalies
Automatic, not manual
You don't press it. It watches.
The moments a lone worker most needs help — a fall, a collapse, being knocked out — are the ones where they can't reach for a button. So Vygard doesn't wait to be pressed.
The old way
A button someone has to press
Only works if the worker is conscious, able and remembers to reach it. In a real emergency that's often exactly what they can't do.
- Needs a free hand
- Needs them awake and aware
- One press, one chance
The Vygard way
It detects and acts on its own
Fall, no-movement and man-down detection run in the background, and a missed check-in escalates itself. The alarm goes up even if they never touch the phone.
- Fall + no-movement + man-down detection
- Heart-rate & vitals cues on the watch
- Missed check-ins self-escalate
How it works
From something wrong to help on the way — in one loop.
1Trigger
A worker fires an SOS, a fall is detected, or a check-in is missed — from the phone, the watch, or automatically.
2Escalate
Vygard alerts the right person in seconds — supervisor, on-call manager, then ARC/999 — with the worker's live location, until someone acknowledges.
3Resolve & prove
Every step is timestamped and audit-logged, ready to export for HSE, CQC or your insurer. Nothing reconstructed from memory.
See it in action
From a trigger to help on the way.
Watch what happens the moment something goes wrong on the phone. An SOS press — or an automatic fall / no-movement detection — starts a countdown; if it isn't cancelled, the alert escalates through the worker's contacts to a 24/7 monitoring centre, with their live location attached and every step logged for the audit trail.
- SOS press or automatic fall / no-movement detection
- A cancel-countdown — a false alarm is one tap to stop
- Escalates contact → buddy → ARC, with live location
Live SOS cascade — recorded in-app.
Built for the field
Real work. Real cover.
From a lone forester to a night-shift guard to a runner on the fells — the same SOS, man-down and check-in cover, wherever the work happens.
Lone workers
Utilities · rail · field
Forestry
Chainsaw kickback · LOLER
Security
Patrols · manned guarding
Care
Lone visits · CQC audit
Personal
Runners · hikers · families
New · powered by Claude Opus 4.8
Meet the AI Virtual Watcher
A second pair of eyes on every shift, every minute. Claude reads the live telemetry, asks workers if they're OK before they have to ask for help, catches the PPE checks that didn't happen, and the moment SOS fires composes a dispatcher briefing that requires a human to read, action and confirm welfare before the incident can close.
01
Flow 1
SOS narrative briefing
Claude writes it the moment SOS fires
When a worker fires SOS, the watcher composes a structured briefing in seconds: situation summary, single recommended next action, priority-ordered call list, evidence to preserve. The dispatcher must tick three audit-stamped boxes — read, actioned, welfare confirmed — before the incident can close.
- Sub-second briefing inside the SOS modal
- Mandatory 3-step ack with audit trail
- Sidebar pulses red + emails on-call at 5 min unack
02
Flow 2
PPE + cert gap detection
Catches the checks that didn't happen
Workers who clock on without the pre-shift PPE selfie get flagged. Training certs, SCBA face-fits, SIA licences and driver-CPC all monitored — the watcher knows that a petro PPE gap is critical (ATEX legal exposure) while a retail PPE gap is low. Sector-aware severity baked into the prompt.
- ppe_overdue + cert_expiring categories
- Severity tuned per sector (petro vs retail)
- Surfaces alongside vitals/location anomalies
03
Flow 3
Welfare-ping engine
Asks workers if they're OK before they have to ask
Every 60 seconds, Claude scans each worker's recent state and decides — conservatively — whether to send an unprompted welfare ping. Worker taps 'Yes, I'm OK' or 'Need help'. No ack within N minutes auto-escalates into the standard missed-check-in cascade.
- 8 trigger reasons (vitals drift, livestock zone, weather…)
- 2-10 min ack timeout calibrated per reason
- Banner mounted on every worker app (12 sectors)
100%
Briefings audit-logged
Every dispatcher tick stamped with name + ISO timestamp
<1 s
Briefing in the SOS modal
Async Claude call doesn't block the SOS itself
Opus 4.8
Model + adaptive thinking
Structured tool-use output, strict JSON schema, prompt caching
No signal? Still covered.
The safety net works where the phone signal doesn't.
Forests, farms, moorland, oil platforms, the drive home through a blackspot — the moments a lone worker is most exposed are often the moments they have no bars. Vygard is built for exactly that. An SOS still counts with no signal: the alert and last location are saved on the phone and fire automatically the second coverage returns — and where the phone has Emergency SOS via satellite, Vygard points the worker straight into it. It's the phone already in every pocket, not a £200 gadget in a drawer.
Blackspot-proof
Store-and-forward: an SOS raised with no signal is saved with its timestamp and last GPS fix, then delivered the instant a bar returns — logged to the audit ledger, nothing lost.
Satellite, built into the phone
Newer iPhones and Androids include Emergency SOS via satellite. With no signal, Vygard surfaces it at the critical moment and sends your own alert the instant a bar returns — no extra hardware, no second network.
Pair a device — if you want
Teams working truly remote can pair a Garmin inReach or similar satellite communicator. Optional — for most workers the phone is already the safety net.
A dedicated satellite messenger is a £200+ device someone has to remember, charge and press. Vygard rides the phone every worker already carries — automatic, always on, no extra kit to issue or maintain.
See it for your sectorWhy lone-worker safety matters — UK industry context
0.0m
UK lone workers (HSE est.)
0
Workplace fatalities 2024/25 (HSE)
£0k
Avg HSE fine on serious breach
0x
Sentencing range above platform cost
Sources: HSE workplace fatality & injury statistics 2024/25; Sentencing Council Definitive Guideline for H&S Offences 2016 (medium-culpability, Category 2 harm, large-employer band).
Security & compliance posture
Where we are on every framework your procurement, legal and IT teams will ask about — honestly labelled (aligned vs targeted vs in-audit) so you can plan around it.
- SOC 2 Type IITargeted Q4 2026
- ISO 27001Targeted Q3 2026
- Cyber Essentials PlusRe-applying
- UK GDPRDPA template available
- BS 8484Provision aligned
- NHS DSPTApplying
The UK lone-worker reality
Six million UK workers spend part of their day alone.
Public regulator data — not curated case studies. This is the gap every safety officer is trying to close.
2024/25 · provisional
124
UK workers killed at work
Source: HSE annual fatal injuries bulletin (Jul 2025)
2024/25
680,000
Workers sustained a workplace injury
Source: HSE Labour Force Survey
2024/25
689,000
Incidents of violence at work
Source: HSE workplace violence statistics
2024/25
1.9m
Working people with work-related illness
Source: HSE Labour Force Survey
Source: Health and Safety Executive (hse.gov.uk/statistics) · 2024/25 annual release, published July 2025. Fatal-injury figure is provisional and finalises July 2026. Full citations on our about page.
For your industry
One platform. Tuned to your trade.
Vygard is a single safety engine — SOS, fall detection, AI watcher and 24/7 ARC monitoring, working even off-grid. Each industry gets a service pack with the workflows, forms and regulators unique to that workforce. Pick yours, or start generic and switch any time.
Same platform, every other trade
Already see your sector?
Compare all 12 packs side-by-side — pains, features, regulators and stats lined up so you can shortlist in 5 minutes.
See the comparisonDon't see your sector?
Custom packWe build bespoke vertical packs around your workforce's rituals, regulators and risk profile. Talk to us for 30 minutes and we'll scope a pack in the call.
Commission a custom pack Plays nicely with your stack
Comms, ITSM, HR and CRM connect today over standard protocols — no bespoke middleware. Set them up self-serve in Settings → Integrations. Workday and SIA-IP / Fast Format are on the roadmap.
- TTwilioSMS / voice
- RResendEmail
- MMQTTIoT
- MMicrosoft TeamsComms
- SSlackComms
- SServiceNowITSM
- BBambooHRHRIS
- SSalesforceCRM
- WWorkdayHRISSoon
- SSIA-IP / Fast FormatARCSoon
Cross-platform native apps
Works on every device your workforce already carries.
Native apps for iPhone and Android with companion apps on Apple Watch and Wear OS — plus a web PWA, BLE pendants and rugged handsets. Bring your own devices, no hardware lock-in.
Platform
Android
App type
Native Kotlin / Compose
Requirement
Android 9.0 (Pie) or later
- Foreground service for reliability
- Doze-mode aware geofencing
- Google Fit vitals integration
- Bluetooth LE wearable pairing
Google PlayAvailable
Platform
watchOS
App type
Standalone watch app
Requirement
Apple Watch Series 6+ · watchOS 9+
- One-tap SOS from the watch face
- Continuous heart-rate streaming
- Auto fall + crash detection
- Independent LTE — works without phone
App StoreAvailable
Platform
Wear OS
App type
Standalone watch app
Requirement
Wear OS 3.0+ · Pixel Watch, Galaxy Watch 4+
- One-tap SOS tile
- Continuous heart-rate streaming
- Always-on display safe-zone
- Works with paired or LTE-only watches
Play StoreAvailable
Plus, for the rest of your workforce
- Web PWAAny device with a modern browser — no install required
- SOS pendantsBLE pendants for staff without a smartphone
- Rugged handsetsTested on Cat S62, Sonim XP10, CrossCall — full feature parity
BYOD-friendly. Workers install from their phone's app store using a one-time invite link — no MDM enrolment required, full uninstall on offboarding.
One product, three surfaces
Worker phone, ops console, leadership dashboard.
The same incident flows through all three in real time — no hand-offs, no chasing spreadsheets, no lost context.
Clocked on · 2h 14m
HR 72 · steady
Geofence · Site B
Hold for SOS
Worker app · iOS + Android
Phone, watch, pendant
Native iPhone and Android apps with Apple Watch + Wear OS companions. One-tap SOS, voice triggers, auto-fall detection, BLE indoor positioning, offline-first. Works through wet hands, gloves and one bar of signal.
Marcus R · MAN DOWN00:08
7 on shift · 3 sites
Voice dispatcher armed
AI: 2 anomalies
Ops console
Live dispatch
See every shift live. Alerts arrive in under a second with AI dispatcher copilot drafting the next action and pulling worker context automatically.
Audit: 100% signed
WTD breaches · 0
Risk score · 12 / 100
Export RIDDOR PDF
Leadership
Compliance + audit
Trend lines, regulator-ready reports and a tamper-evident audit trail. CQC, RIDDOR, HSE, insurance broker — exportable in one click.
How it works
From alert to audit in one closed loop.
01
Worker on the ground
Phone, smartwatch, body cam or dedicated pendant — whatever fits the role. Auto-detects falls; one-tap SOS.
02
Ops sees it live
Console alert in <1 second. AI dispatcher copilot drafts the next action with full worker context.
03
Escalation kicks off
Configurable steps: push → SMS → voice → ARC → 999. Misses never go silent.
04
Audit-ready trail
Every event signed and exportable. CQC, RIDDOR, HSE, insurance — without manual write-up.
Why teams switch
Vygard vs. the alternatives.
Honest comparison against the two categories you're probably already evaluating us against: legacy lone-worker apps and pager/ARC-only setups.
| Feature | UsVygard | CategoryLegacy lone-worker apps | CategoryPager / ARC-only |
|---|---|---|---|
One-tap SOS + man-down Industry baseline; every product has this. | |||
Worker PWA (no app install) Workers open a URL, hit Add to Home Screen. | |||
Multi-sector vertical packs (12) Care, Construction, Drive, Elder, Farm, Forestry, Guard, NHS-adjacent, Petro, Rescue, Waste, Generic — each with bespoke workflows. | |||
AI dispatcher copilot Claude drafts next-action with full worker context. | |||
AI anomaly monitor Background Claude run that spots patterns humans miss. | |||
Voice-first dispatcher mode Hands-free for ops in active incident. | |||
Live weather + crime overlay Auto-flags workers inside an alert polygon. | |||
Mountain rescue / SAR support Team-on-hill, grid search, casualty card, HEMS LZ. | |||
Apple Watch + Wear OS native Watch-only SOS, fall detection, HR streaming. | |||
Vitals (Apple Health / Garmin) HR, SpO₂, fall events, gas exposure into the incident. | |||
Permit-to-work register Built-in compliance hub, not a paper form. | |||
WTD / EU tachograph monitoring Driver fatigue dashboard with break enforcement. | |||
RIDDOR auto-PDF + audit export Tamper-evident trail, regulator-ready. | |||
ARC over SIA-IP / Fast Format Escalation to your existing alarm receiving centre. | |||
Mutual-aid network Cross-customer buddy pairing for lone responders. | |||
Transparent per-worker pricing Public £9 / £19 / custom tiers; no per-supervisor fee. |
Category comparison; specific competitor feature sets vary by tier and contract. Happy to do a side-by-side against a named vendor on request.
Illustrative deployment scenarios
What a typical deployment looks like.
Three different sectors, three different value patterns. Each number ties back to a real platform capability — escalation timings come from the actual cascade engine, audit trail comes from the actual append-only event log, tool consolidation comes from the actual feature set you'd replace.
These are illustrative scenarios, not named customers. Published case studies with named references will be added as pilot customers consent. The mechanism behind each number is described in plain English so you can verify the platform behaviour matches the claim.
SOS → dispatcher
~10–15 min~90 sec
Median SOS-to-dispatcher time of ~90 seconds.
How it works: Web Push to on-shift dispatcher fires in under 1 s; escalation cascade to ARC partner at 60 s if no human ack. Replaces phone-tree call-out.
Mid-sized care provider
Domiciliary care · ~120 carers
Incident audit completeness
Partial / manualTamper-evident
RIDDOR audit trail captured for every incident.
How it works: Every SOS, check-in, geofence event, and dispatcher action lands in an append-only audit log. PDF export is one click; brokers accept the same export at renewal.
National courier fleet
Logistics · multi-depot · ~300 drivers
Tool consolidation
Pager + app + paper + spreadsheetOne console
Replaces 3–5 legacy point tools per site.
How it works: Permit-to-work register, broadcasts, check-ins, escalation, and audit all in one tenant. Typical legacy tool spend at this size: £15k–£25k/yr that can be retired.
Construction H&S team
Refurb / multi-site · ~85 site workers
Pricing
Per worker per month. No per-supervisor fee.
Three tiers. Sector packs as add-ons. 14-day free trial on every plan.
Starter
£9
per worker / month
- Core safety
- Live map
- Basic audit
- Email support
Most popular
Pro
£19
per worker / month
- Everything in Starter
- AI module + risk scoring
- Compliance hub
- Sector pack included
Enterprise
Custom
from £49 / worker / month
- Everything in Pro
- Custom escalation policies
- Dedicated CSM + 24/7 SOS line
- On-prem + custom SLA
Ready when you are
See Vygard live on your sector.
Self-serve the live demo, or book a 30-minute walkthrough — we'll wire it to your workflows, your regulators and the kit your team already carries.
So no-one works alone.
The demo is live, the pricing is published, and the 14-day trial is on the house. Pick whichever moves you fastest.