Lone Worker Safety Solutions 5th Edition

Lone worker safety solutions can have numerous benefits for both employers and employees.Well-implemented solutions can improve peace of mind for employees, thus reducing stress andemployee turnover. Modern lone worker safety solutions consist of a dedicated lone workerdevice or smartphone app able to send an alarm signal and a monitoring platform that displaysinformation about the location and status of the lone workers. In case of emergency, workerscan call for help from co-workers, professional alarm monitoring operators as well as the policeand other emergency responders.

Berg Insight estimates that the user base of lone worker safety solutions in Europe, NorthAmerica and Australia & New Zealand was close to 2.5 million at the end of 2025. In Europe, theuser base is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 9.2 percent, from 1.4 million users at the end of2025 to over 2.2 million users at the end of 2030. The UK is the largest market for lone workersolutions and is estimated to account for more than half of the total European market. The NorthAmerican market is estimated to grow from 685,000 users at the end of 2025 to about 1.1 millionusers at the end of 2030. The US market is currently trailing the Canadian market in terms ofusers. Australia & New Zealand market is forecasted to grow from 350,000 to around 520,000users during the same period. The combined market value for lone worker safety solutions inEurope, North America and Australia & New Zealand reached € 308 million in 2025. By 2030, the market value is forecasted to grow to € 251 million in Europe, about € 146 million in NorthAmerica and around ¤ 59 million in Australia & New Zealand.

The lone worker safety solutions markets in Europe, North America and Australia & New Zealandare served by various companies offering hardware devices, software solutions and alarmmonitoring and response services. Only a few companies offer complete end-to-end solutions.Many of the largest vendors originate from the UK, Canada and Australia. These countries alsorepresent the three largest markets. In terms of subscribers, UK-based Peoplesafe is the leadingprovider of lone worker safety solutions in Europe with around 375,000 subscribers. In Australia,Duress is the clear market leader with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Leading companiesin Canada are Aware360, Blackline Safety and Tsunami Solutions. AlertMedia and Becklar aremajor players based in the US. Other notable vendors include the UK-based companies AccessPersonal Safety, EcoOnline, Orbis Protect, PanicGuard, Reliance High-Tech, SoloProtect,Totalmobile, Vatix, and Vismo; Australia and New Zealand-based providers Worksafe Guardian and GetHomeSafe; and European players such as France-based Beepiz and Nomadia,Switzerland-based Ascom, Swissphone and Uepaa, the Netherlands-based MultiBel andSecure2Go, Germany-based Oelmann Elektronik, Finland-based Secapp, and Sweden-basedMiniFinder, Securdia and Securitas.