Meet Howie · the AI watcher inside Vygard

Vygard. So no-one works alone.

One safety platform for every kind of lone worker — SOS, man-down, check-ins, geofencing, escalation, audit and CQC/HSE/RIDDOR-ready reporting in one console. Howie, our AI watcher, pings workers when something looks off, flags missing PPE checks before shift, and writes the dispatcher's incident briefing the moment SOS fires.
12 sector packs from care to ATEX oil & gas, with custom packs in ~6 weeks.

Clock-on accepted· Birmingham4s
Man-down · cancelled by worker· Leeds11s
Welfare check confirmed· Cardiff19s
Vitals nominal · driver shift 2/4· Edinburgh27s
  • 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.
Weather alert · East Anglia
3 drivers inside AMBER flood polygon — auto-suggest welfare check.
Voice dispatcherMQTT liveAI anomalies
New · powered by Claude Opus 4.7

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 4.7
Model + adaptive thinking
Structured tool-use output, strict JSON schema, prompt caching
0s
Median SOS response
0%
Worker daily-active
0%
Body-cam coverage
£0.0
m saved p.a. across pilots
Security & compliance posture

Independent assurance your procurement, legal and IT teams will ask for.

  • SOC 2 Type IIAudit Q3 2026
  • ISO 27001Stage 1 complete
  • Cyber Essentials PlusCertified
  • UK GDPRICO-registered controller
  • BS 8484Provision aligned
  • NHS DSPTStandards Met
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.

New this month

Four brand-new packs, live in the demo.

Tap into any preview to see the actual worker app running in a phone mock — no signup, no demo booking, no slides.

Just launched
Direct-to-consumer · £9 / month

Elder care tracker

The one your mum will actually use

Built for over-70s living independently. Giant 'I'm OK today' check-in, voice-activated SOS that fires even from the floor, plain-language family alerts.

  • 8 s median fall-to-family alert
  • Daughter / son / GP / carer one-tap calls
  • Daily medication reminders with adherence log
Just launched
ATEX Zone 1/21 · £100+ / month

Oil, gas & petrochemical

The only platform that runs on intrinsically-safe handsets

Locks out every consumer-phone competitor from confined-space work. Live vitals from IS wearables, Heat Stress Index, gas-sensor overlay, digital permit-to-work.

  • Bartec / Ecom / Aegex / i.safe device support
  • Heat Stress Index with welfare-at-70 / evac-at-85
  • Auto-attach gas + vitals snapshot to every SOS
Just launched
UK's deadliest sector · 21× fatality rate

Agriculture & farming

When GSM is gone, we still get help to you

Satellite-fallback SOS for the moment the GSM mast doesn't reach. Quad bike rollover detection tuned for ATV physics, livestock-zone awareness, and a nearest-neighbour peer-aid network that beats rural 999 response by 15+ minutes.

  • Iridium satellite-direct fallback when GSM drops
  • Quad / ATV rollover detection with 4 s tilt threshold
  • Nearest-neighbour peer aid (median 4 km vs 20 min for 999)
Just launched
NHS DSPT · CQC Reg 13 aligned

NHS community nursing

50,000 NHS staff visit alone every day — we give them backup

Pre-visit risk briefing pulled from a trust-wide hostile-patient register, one-tap push-to-bank-nurse for in-visit backup, and a DSPT-ready audit log that replaces the end-of-shift email reconstruction.

  • Caldicott-approved cross-trust hostile-patient flags
  • Under-15s push-to-bank-nurse with live audio
  • DSPT requirement 7.3 evidence pack auto-exported
For your industry

Pick the vertical that fits.

One platform, 12 sector packs. Each pack ships the workflows, regulators and forms unique to that workforce — without you paying for the rest.

Plays nicely with your stack

Connect your existing rota, HR, comms and ARC over standard protocols. No bespoke middleware.

  • MMicrosoft TeamsComms
  • SSlackComms
  • SServiceNowITSM
  • BBambooHRHRIS
  • WWorkdayHRIS
  • TTwilioSMS / voice
  • RResendEmail
  • MMQTTIoT
  • SSIA-IP / Fast FormatARC
  • SSalesforceCRM
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
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
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 PWA
    Any device with a modern browser — no install required
  • SOS pendants
    BLE pendants for staff without a smartphone
  • Rugged handsets
    Tested 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.

Platform pillars

Every feature your safety officer’s been writing into procurement docs.

Core safety

  • SOS, man-down, panic
  • Voice + silent triggers
  • Configurable escalation policy
  • Buddy / mutual aid network

AI & ML

  • AI Virtual Watcher (Claude Opus 4.7)
  • SOS briefings with mandatory dispatcher ack
  • Proactive welfare pings to workers
  • PPE / cert gap detection

Compliance & ops

  • Permit-to-work
  • Working Time Directive
  • PPE selfie + training gate
  • Audit log + PDF export

Dispatch intel

  • War room mode
  • Weather / traffic overlay
  • Live crime feed
  • Voice-first dispatch

Worker empowerment

  • Anonymous near-miss
  • End-of-shift debrief
  • Peer shoutouts
  • Mental health pulse

Enterprise wiring

  • Multi-tenant isolation
  • Rota / WFM connectors
  • ARC over SIA IP / Fast Format
  • Wearables + sensor SDKs
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 (8)
Care, Construction, Drive, Guard, Rescue, Retail, 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.

ROI calculator

What you'd save in your first year.

Based on HSE incident-cost averages and a conservative 35% preventable-escalation reduction. Numbers update as you drag.

Your team

75
1500

Base rate from HSE / RIDDOR industry data.

Assumptions
  • £19 / worker / month (Pro tier)
  • £18,500 avg cost per serious incident (HSE)
  • 35% preventable-escalation reduction
Net annual savings
-£3,745
Payback period
15.4 mo
Annual platform cost
£17,100
75 × £19 × 12
Expected incidents / yr
2.1
Without the platform
Prevented incidents / yr
0.7
35% reduction
First-year ROI
-22%
Gross saving vs. cost
Customer outcomes

Real teams, measurable results.

Three different sectors, three different wins. The pattern: faster response, cleaner audit, lower total cost of ownership.

Response time
12 min90 sec

Median SOS response cut from 12 minutes to 90 seconds.

The first time it caught a real fall and dispatch had a paramedic on the line in under two minutes, it paid for itself.
SP
Sarah Patel
Head of Care Quality · Mercia Care
Domiciliary care · Birmingham · 124 carersRead story →
RIDDOR completeness
73%100%

Zero RIDDOR misses across 18 months. Broker rerated us.

Our broker dropped our liability premium by 14% at renewal because the audit trail was watertight. Hard ROI.
JO
James O'Hara
Fleet Risk Manager · Fairway Logistics
National courier · 7 depots · 312 driversRead story →
Annual tooling spend
£218K£38K

Retired four legacy tools. Saved £180K in annual subscriptions.

We binned the pager, the lone-worker app, the paper toolbox-talk binder, and the permits spreadsheet. One console runs the lot.
AB
Aisha Bello
Group H&S Director · BW Building Services
Construction · refurb specialist · 87 site workersRead story →
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.