employee safety device
MOP by Visual Matrix Helps Hoteliers Achieve Efficiencies in a Strained Labor Market, Industry Adoption Grows by More than 400%
Visual Matrix | August 8, 2024
Visual Matrix MOP continues to improve hotel operations, optimize guest satisfaction, and set new standards for worker safety Richardson, Texas, August 8, 2024 – Visual Matrix, a leading provider of advanced technology solutions for the hospitality industry, has increased the growth of its MOP technology 440 percent since Visual Matrix acquired the technology in November 2021. MOP is now used at more than 1,000 hotels representing than 33 brands in the industry, including Wyndham, Hilton, Marriott, IHG, Choice, and more. “MOP was designed to help hoteliers overcome the many operating challenges they face today, in addition to the crunch...
NHLA Hotel Tech Conference to Showcase React Mobile 2.0 Employee Safety Devices
React Mobile | November 29, 2022
Members of the Nevada Hotel & Lodging Assn. can demo hospitality’s most reliable panic buttons delivering the fastest response times and beacon location accuracy at Black Fire Innovation LAS VEGAS, Nov. 29, 2022 — Members of the Nevada Hotel & Lodging Assn. will flock to Black Fire Innovation this week to attend the 2nd Annual Hotel Tech Conference on Nov. 30th. The event will give hotel, resort and casino operators continuing education on trending topics and the opportunity to see the latest technology innovations – including React Mobile 2.0, an employee safety solution that delivers the fastest response times, highest pani...
Hotel Employees Thankful for Panic Buttons
John Stachowiak | November 23, 2022
While verbal or physical assaults of a staff member may be rare, those on the receiving end say they are grateful that management and owners care and are prepared By John Stachowiak Few people start their workday expecting an emergency to happen, but according to American Aerospace Engineer Edward Murphy Jr. who worked on safety-critical systems: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” If you’re not a believer in “Murphy’s Law,” just ask any of the 701 hotel workers who needed help last year while on duty and survived the ordeal because they were equipped with an Employee Safety Device (ESD) or panic button. Guest D...
5 Reasons Why Employee Safety Devices Are a Must-Have Budget Item for 2023
John Stachowiak | September 29, 2022
Adding panic buttons does more than check off a requirement on the property to-do list; It has a positive impact on job retention and cultivates staff loyalty By John Stachowiak Hoteliers are knee deep preparing 2023 budgets, but until the hospitality industry is back in full swing, many will be looking for ways to short-cut spending. Employee safety, however, is one area of operations that hotel owners cannot afford to ignore. While local and state municipalities continue to impose legislative requirements for hotel employers to “provide panic buttons to all employees working in guestrooms or bathrooms without other employees pres...
React Mobile to Bring In-Demand 2.0 Safety Platform to More Hotels With Help From Best Buy Geek Squad
React Mobile | June 7, 2022
To meet the rapidly-approaching 2022 deadline for implementing Employee Safety Devices at hotels, Geek Squad® will install 50% of all React Mobile 2.0 projects this year; As the industry’s most trusted provider of panic buttons to hotels, React Mobile will provide full system training and 24/7/365 customer support; Visit React Mobile in Booth 1638 at HITEC Seattle, June 7, 2022 — The pandemic has shifted the timetable for adoption of workforce safety technology from the end of 2020 to the end of 2022. To help hotel operators meet rapidly-approaching compliance deadlines – albeit AHLA’s 5-Star Promise initiative or state/local leg...
Will Your Hotel Pass Its Next QA Inspection? Not Likely if Employee Safety Devices Are Not in Play
John Stachowiak | May 24, 2022
Hotels have just seven months to comply with AHLA’s 5-Star Promise; Having a contract in place with a panic button provider may tip the scales in your favor By John Stachowiak Like it or not, when a hotel’s next Quality Assurance Inspection rolls around, Employee Safety Device (ESD) compliance will now be part of the checklist if the property is managed or franchised by one of the 60 hotel companies that made a pledge to the AHLA’s 5-Star Promise initiative. That means if the hotel has not equipped certain associates with an emergency alert device or panic button platform by the time the brand inspector shows up, chances are likely ...
React Mobile Enlists Best Buy Business for Hospitality to Aid in Deployment of Panic Buttons and Beacons at Hotels Nationwide
React Mobile | August 25, 2021
React Mobile is leveraging Geek Squad® to help hotels meet the industry’s growing demand — and legislative requirements — for Employee Safety Devices Seattle — August 25, 2021 — React Mobile has enlisted Best Buy Business to dispatch its Geek Squad® agents for installation assistance of React Mobile’s Employee Safety Device (ESD) solution. With Best Buy locations within 20 miles of most hotels in the U.S., React Mobile can scale installations more quickly to ensure each property is up to date on safety compliance policies. “We are thrilled that Geek Squad is able to extend the reach of the React Mobile t...
TraknProtect Adds New LTE Gateways to Platform
TraknProtect | October 27, 2020
Solution Bypasses Hotel’s Wi-Fi to Communicate Directly With the TraknProtect Cloud Chicago, Illinois, October 27, 2020 – TraknProtect, a pioneer of location-based technology purpose-built for the hotel industry and a leading employee safety button provider for several major hotel brands, has unveiled powerful new technology to the TraknProtect Platform that delivers the capability to have LTE Gateways connect via a private network to communicate directly with the TraknProtect Cloud. The TraknProtect Platform currently works when a safety button is activated, the safety button emits a BLE beacon signal that the TraknProtect BLE-Wi-Fi ...
