Lone Worker Safety App
Scheduled check-ins by app, text message, or AI phone call. If a check-in is missed, the people you choose are alerted automatically, with the last shared location. No pendants, no hardware, no monitoring contracts.
How It Works
A working-alone check-in procedure that runs itself
Set a Check-In Schedule
Choose check-in times that match the work: the start and end of a solo shift, every few hours during field visits, or once a day. Different days can have different schedules.
Check In From Anywhere
One tap in the app, a reply to an SMS, answering an AI phone call, or a tap on an Apple Watch or Wear OS watch. SMS works on any phone with signal, no smartphone or data required.
Missed Check-In? Alerts Go Out
If the check-in window passes with no response, your designated contacts (a supervisor, a colleague, family) are alerted automatically by email, SMS, and push, with the last location shared at check-in if location sharing is on.
Built for People Who Work Alone
If nobody would notice for hours that something went wrong, a check-in schedule closes that gap
Field and Community Workers
Estate agents on solo viewings, home-care and community health staff, social workers, surveyors, inspectors, meter readers, and tradespeople visiting properties alone.
Solo and Late-Shift Staff
People opening or closing premises alone, night-shift workers, warehouse and workshop staff working solo hours, and anyone whose colleagues are far away.
Self-Employed and Freelancers
Contractors, farmers, and freelancers with no employer behind them. If you work for yourself, you are your own safety system, and a daily check-in is the simplest one to run.
Where Check-Ins Fit Your Lone Working Policy
Employers in the US, UK, and Canada have a duty of care to staff who work alone. A scheduled check-in with automatic escalation is the core of most working-alone procedures.
United States
There is no single federal lone worker law, but OSHA's General Duty Clause requires employers to keep workplaces free of recognised hazards, and some standards require employers to account for lone employees at regular intervals. Scheduled check-ins are the accepted way to do that.
United Kingdom
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management Regulations require employers to risk-assess lone working, and HSE guidance expects a way to monitor lone workers and raise the alarm. Check-in schedules with escalation are a standard control.
Canada
Several provinces regulate working alone directly. BC's OHS Regulation and Alberta's OHS Code, for example, require a written procedure for checking a lone worker's well-being at set intervals, with a designated person. That is exactly the shape of an AssureOkay schedule.
The honest small print
AssureOkay supports your lone working procedure; it doesn't replace it. Your risk assessment, written procedure, and check-in intervals remain your responsibility as an employer, and no app on its own makes a business compliant.
Alerts go to the contacts you designate (supervisors, colleagues, family), not to a monitoring centre. AssureOkay is not a BS 8484 certified lone worker service and does not provide an alarm receiving centre or police-priority response. If your UK risk assessment calls for ARC-monitored devices with a police URN, you need a certified provider; for the many roles where person-to-person escalation is the right control, AssureOkay does it without hardware or monitoring contracts.
Features
Everything a working-alone check-in procedure needs, nothing you have to install on a wall
Flexible Schedules
Match check-ins to shifts and visit patterns. Set different times for different days, and adjust the response window to your procedure's intervals.
SMS for Any Phone
Field staff with basic phones or patchy data can check in by replying to a text. SMS needs only cellular signal, not internet.
AI Phone Call Check-Ins
A friendly automated call asks if everything is okay. Answering and confirming counts as the check-in, hands-free and app-free.
Location With Alerts
With location sharing on, each check-in and SOS records where it happened, so an alert tells your contacts where to look, not just that something is wrong.
SOS Button
When something is wrong right now, one press alerts your contacts immediately with your location. No waiting for the next check-in window.
Escalation to Real People
Alerts go to the designated person your procedure names: a supervisor, a colleague, or family. They see who missed a check-in, when, and where, and can act immediately.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does using AssureOkay make my business compliant with lone working laws?
No app can make a business compliant by itself, and you should be wary of any that claims to. Lone working duties sit with the employer: a risk assessment, a written procedure, and check-in intervals appropriate to the risk. AssureOkay implements the check-in and escalation part of that procedure automatically, which is usually the hardest part to run reliably by hand.
Is AssureOkay a BS 8484 certified lone worker service?
No. BS 8484 is the UK standard for lone worker services monitored by a certified alarm receiving centre, which can escalate to a police-priority response. AssureOkay alerts the contacts you designate rather than a monitoring centre. For high-risk roles where your UK risk assessment requires ARC monitoring, choose a certified provider; for roles where alerting a supervisor or colleague is the right control, AssureOkay does it without hardware or contracts.
Do workers need a smartphone?
No. Check-ins work by replying to an SMS or answering an AI phone call, so any phone with signal is enough. Workers with smartphones can also use the app, and Apple Watch and Wear OS apps let them check in from the wrist.
Who gets alerted when a check-in is missed?
The contacts the worker designates: typically a supervisor or a nominated colleague for employed lone workers, or family and friends for the self-employed. Alerts go out by email, SMS, and push notification, and include the last shared location when location sharing is enabled.
How is this different from a lone worker alarm or pendant?
Dedicated devices are hardware you buy, charge, carry, and usually pay monitoring fees for. AssureOkay runs on the phone the worker already carries, adds scheduled check-ins (which pendants generally don't do), and costs a small subscription instead of hardware plus a contract. The trade-off is monitoring: devices tied to an alarm receiving centre can summon a police-priority response, while AssureOkay alerts your own people.
Can workers keep their location private?
Yes. Location sharing is controlled by the person checking in, not by whoever watches over them. When it's on, location is captured at check-ins and SOS alerts so help can find them; when it's off, contacts still get the alert, just without a map link.
Put Your Working-Alone Procedure on Autopilot
Set up a check-in schedule in minutes. If a check-in is ever missed, the right people know straight away.