Lone-worker safety for the people who keep a school running.
Caretakers opening up before dawn, site teams in empty buildings, contractors in plant rooms — covered with silent SOS, missed-check-in escalation and a duress PIN, plus the compliance and identity controls a division's IT and safeguarding leads actually ask for.
- <10sSilent SOS to first responder
- 100%Staff certs tracked with expiry
- 0Manual off-boarding, with SCIM
A school is rarely empty. Caretakers, grounds staff, cleaners and maintenance teams work alone across sprawling sites, out of hours, in plant rooms and boiler houses — and a lone-working policy that lives in a binder protects no one. Vygard gives a division real-time lone-worker cover, staff certification and permit-to-work tracking, plant-room gas monitoring and an anonymous reporting channel — signed in through your own Microsoft directory and provisioned automatically as staff join and leave.
The pain points your existing stack misses.
- Caretakers opening and locking up alone, out of hours, with no check-in
- Contractors and site staff in plant rooms and boiler houses off-grid
- Staff DBS / first-aid / safeguarding certificates tracked on spreadsheets
- Hazardous maintenance run without a permit-to-work
- No safe, anonymous way for staff to report a concern
- Console accounts left active long after a member of staff has left
Built specifically for education.
Silent SOS, fall & missed check-in
One-tap and covert alarms, automatic fall detection, and interval check-ins that escalate if a lone caretaker doesn't confirm they're OK.
Duress PIN
A staff member under threat types a personal PIN — the app looks normal while a silent alarm goes out and responders are told not to make contact.
Certifications & clock-on gate
DBS, first aid, safeguarding, manual handling — tracked with expiry; an expired critical cert can block clock-on.
Permit-to-work & risk register
Confined space, hot work, work-at-height for hazardous maintenance — gated to start and fully auditable.
Plant-room gas sensors
Boiler houses and plant rooms monitored; a reading over threshold raises an alarm like any other.
Microsoft SSO + SCIM
Staff sign in with their school Microsoft account; accounts are created and, crucially, deactivated automatically as people join and leave.
The platform underneath the Schools pack.
Sector packs add the workflow; this is the operational layer every customer gets regardless of vertical — billing, comms, AI dispatch and trust signals.
Multi-channel SOS cascade
Push + SMS + WhatsApp + voice fan-out in parallel. AI re-ranks responders by distance + role + rationale before dispatch.
AI Virtual Watcher
Three Claude-powered flows: SOS narrative + mandatory ack, PPE/cert gap detection, proactive welfare pings.
Comms allowance + bundles
Monthly SMS / WhatsApp / voice quotas included. Overage auto-bills; pre-buy bundles for cheaper rates. SOS always sends.
Admin broadcasts + inbox
One-to-many alerts to any worker subset, ack-tracked for regulator evidence. Per-worker channel prefs respected.
Trust + verify panel
At-a-glance integrations status and a dry-run test SOS so you can prove the dispatch before betting a real shift on it.
Audit ledger (HMAC-signed)
Every action stamped to ID + timestamp + UUID. Regulator-ready PDF export with one click.
Stripe billing + Customer Portal
Per-active-worker pricing. 14-day trial, no card up-front. Self-serve plan changes and bundle top-ups.
REST + Webhook API
Push incidents into ServiceNow / RIDDOR-to-HR / SIEM (Splunk, Datadog, Elastic). GraphQL on Enterprise.
Your workers lose signal. Their safety net doesn't.
Out on site, in the cab, deep in a valley — education teams hit blackspots exactly where an incident is most likely. An SOS still counts with no signal: it's saved on the phone with its last location and fired automatically the moment coverage returns, timestamped for the audit ledger. And where the phone has Emergency SOS via satellite, Vygard points the worker straight into it. No £200 messenger to issue, charge or remember — it's the phone every worker already carries.
How off-grid coverage worksBlackspot-proof store-and-forward
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 — no extra hardware, no second network.
Pair a communicator — optional
Truly remote crews can pair a Garmin inReach or similar. Optional — for most workers the phone is already the safety net.
- Lone Working (HSE INDG73)
- Alberta OHS s.394
- ISO 45001
- KCSIE safeguarding
Create your account, invite your team, they sign in.
Vygard is one app for every industry — workers don't sign themselves up. You create the account, add your people, and they download Vygard and sign in with their phone number.
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Create your account
Set up your organisation online in a couple of minutes — free 14-day trial, no card.
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Invite your team
Add your workers from the dashboard. Their Vygard Schools service pack is picked at first login.
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They download & sign in
Workers install Vygard and sign in with their phone number — nothing to configure.
Download Vygard — the Schools pack is built in.
Scan to install on the worker's phone. They sign in and pick Education; the Vygard Schools pack loads automatically.
See the Schools pack on your own data.
Try the live demo or book a 30-minute call. We'll show you the workflow your team would actually use.