Personal Severe Weather Notifications (UK) and Flooding (England) – new Trackplot services
Trackplot launches UK-wide Personal Severe Weather Notifications and Flooding (England) Warnings and Alerts to help customers review schedules to keep staff safe and crisis manage a situation if a lone worker is caught in serious weather.
Trackplot is delighted to release 2 new services in readiness for the wetter and stormier autumn and winter weather ahead. Designed to be used in conjunction with our existing real-time Environmental Maps, an extensive collection of environmental hazards and weather data, to help you assess risks and plan appropriately.
1. Personal Severe Weather Notifications
These new Notifications will alert a lone worker and their managers when they are potentially at risk.
This valuable Notification enables a lone worker to reassess their schedule and decide on a contingency or whether to abort their mission. The Notification also alerts the worker’s managers so they are aware of the situation and can provide assistance if required.
Personal Severe Weather Notifications are:
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Issued if a worker is in a severe weather region or within 10km of a flood.
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Driven by Trackplot’s existing UK-wide Met Office Weather Warnings data.
Eight different weather types: Rain, Thunderstorm, Wind, Snow, Lightning, Ice, Extreme Heat and Fog.
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Driven by Trackplot’s NEW Flooding (England) data.
With 4 levels of flood urgency including Red, Amber, Yellow and Green.
READ THE ARTICLE: Met Office 2024 research and “WeatherReady” winter campaign.
Met Office 2024 research: The biggest cause of disruption was revealed to be heavy rain stopping people getting to work on time or going out.
2. Flooding (England) Warnings and Alerts
This new service enables you to check current flood warnings and alerts in the areas you work in England. We have collaborated with the Environment Agency to provide this new service. This real-time data is accessed 24/7/365 in the Trackplot Portal so you can assess the current risk of flooding in locations across England.
Flooding (England) data sourced from the Environment Agency.
How will I use these services?
Keep your workers safe – especially outdoor workers, those who travel regularly for work, offsite workers or those in remote locations.
Use Trackplot’s compilation of Weather and Environmental services to:
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Crisis manage an incident if a worker is caught in serious weather.
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Arrange work according to your location and the local conditions.
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Postpone schedules which may put lives or property at risk.
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In the event of an “Overdue”, “Assistance Required” or “SOS” incident:
- Anticipate the type of accident that may have occurred.
- Assess lone worker vulnerability.
- Inform how you implement your Escalation Procedures.