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• How Can GPS Tracking Help An Organisation Adhere To Health And Safety Regulations?
  Health and Safety obligations on employers make it clear that they have a duty of care for their employees. For businesses that have lone workers, then the risk assessments for thier role will often lead to an employer having to make improved provision for their people such as a location aware panic alarm, that is available from a gps tracking device.
  Published 30Mar2011, viewed 192 times

• What Are The Business Benefits Of GPS Tracking Solutions?
  The adoption of GPS tracking of remotely working people as well as assets can help deliver a wide range of business benefits to many organisations. This article lists just a few typical examples.
  Published 30Mar2011, viewed 175 times

• How GPS Vehicle Tracking Can Be Beneficial
  Vehicle Tracking is now becoming a mainstream tool for any business that depends on the use of vehicles to deliver their service. There is no substitute for being able to access up-to-date information on a particular vehicle's whereabouts when making operational scheduling decisions in the light of real-world changes to circumstances.
  Published 31Mar2011, viewed 174 times

• How GPS Vehicle Tracking Can Help a Business
  The information that can be provided by a GPS Vehicle tracking system is fast becoming central to the operational processes of many businesses. From improving workforce scheduling through to chaning the behaviour of drivers, companies that adopt vehicle tracking and act on the information that this provides are seeing a significant benefit.
  Published 14Mar2011, viewed 198 times

• Tracking Your Employees Using A Blackberry Mobile Phone Tracking
  Blackberry tracking provides a viable alternative to vehicle tracking for many employees. Whilst vehicle tracking is the obvious solution for businesses with a valuable fleet to monitor, where businesses are actually more interested in the location of their employee that the vehicle itself, then tracking of a mobile phone or Blackberry in particular is an option that should be properly considered.
  Published 22Feb2011, viewed 398 times

• Five Reasons To Use A Vehicle Tracking System For Your Business
  Vehicle tracking systems can provide you several opportunities to increase the accountability, productivity, and efficiency of your organisation, especially if your business requires regular use of vehicles by your employees for official purpose. This article outlines just five reasons why vehicle tracking can help.
  Published 06Mar2011, viewed 287 times

• Reducing Business Overheads With a GPS Vehicle Tracking System
  Vehicle tracking can help a business to save costs in a number of ways. For example; 1) by helping prevent employee theft, 2) by getting you discounts on your insurance 3) by helping retail customers
  Published 14Feb2011, viewed 147 times

• GPS Vehicle Tracking Software's Business Applications
  Cost in no longer a significant barrier for businesses to adopt GPS vehicle tracking systems as a tool to deliver efficiency gains. Vehicle tracking provides both management information to support operations and has a psychological impact on your workforce.
  Published 11Feb2011, viewed 185 times

• Vehicle Tracking - What Factors Should I Consider?
  For many businesses, choosing a GPS vehicle tracking system can be a difficult decision, as there are dozens of products on the market with a very broad range of features. This article is intended to help you establish which features your business really needs. It will also tell you what you should look for when researching options of a fleet GPS system.
  Published 12Dec2010, viewed 191 times

• Six Benefits From Vehicle Tracking
  There are six main areas where businesses are reporting tangible operational or financial benefits from the introduction of vehicle tracking systems. This article briefly outlines each of these areas.
  Published 27Oct2010, viewed 181 times

• Vehicle Tracking Can Boost Employee Productivity
  Although, as a business owner, you cannot actually sit alongside each of your mobile employees and monitor their work, you can do the next best thing and monitor their whereabouts with GPS vehicle tracking. Where employees feel that they are being monitored, studies have shown that substantial increases in productivity are likely to be achieved.
  Published 08Oct2010, viewed 301 times

• How GPS Tracking Systems Can Deliver Routing Efficiencies
  GPS vehicle tracking can provide a business with valuable information that can drive efficiencies in the way in which vehicles in a fleet are routed between jobs, and can respond to changing circumstances.
  Published 07Sep2010, viewed 202 times

• How did Charm Bracelets Originate?
  The history of the wearing of charms is traced, from ancient history where they were seen as having religious significance to ward off evil spirits through to today where the advent of brightly coloured glass has unleashed charm bracelets as highly adaptable fashion accessories.
  Published 06Sep2010, viewed 340 times

• Fleet Tracking Can Help Reduce City Congestion Charge Fines
  Several cities worldwide have now introduced a congestion charging scheme to discourage the use of vehicles in the heart of the city. Companies whose drivers occasionally need to travel into the congestion zone often discover that they have incurred a substantial fine when a driver has not paid the congestion charge on time. GPS tracking provides a solution to alerting the business that a payment is due, and thus avoid substantial fines.
  Published 01Sep2010, viewed 207 times

• Fleet Vehicle Tracking: Examples of Real Life Business Benefits
  This article takes a look at just three examples of published case studies related to GPS vehicle tracking to illustrate how different types of business that rely of road transport have themselves stated that they gain real business benefit simply through being able to make use of the information arising from GPS vehicle tracking systems in their wider operations.
  Published 29Jul2010, viewed 429 times

• An Example Of Satellite GPS Tracking In Lone Worker Protection
  A leading UK Mental Health Trust has up to 1000 staff who are often lone workers. Many of these staff can face serious risks in the course of their work. Consequently the Trust has recognised the value of GPS Satellite tracking as a means of providing an additional safeguard for their more vulnerable staff.
  Published 20Jul2010, viewed 550 times

• Man Down Safety Alarms Depend on Sound End to End Procedures
  The quality of a "Man Down" system may be 90%+ dependent on the quality of the reporting and response procedures, and must factor in the likelihood that any device issued to the lone worker may not be able to function at the instant a "Man Down" incident actually occurs
  Published 16Jul2010, viewed 489 times

• Lone Worker Protection - Practical Lessons Learned in Social Work
  There is significant experience within local authorities as to what steps they can take to enhance the safety of their lone worker staff. Evidence from the field clearly points to the necessity for simplicity. GPS tracking technology has a major role to play in making crucial information available to those reacting to a crisis, yet requiring minimal interaction from the lone workers themselves.
  Published 12Jul2010, viewed 230 times

• Five Key Benefits From GPS Vehicle Tracking
  This article gives five of the most common benefits that a business may obtain from a GPS Vehicle Tracking solution.
  Published 08Jul2010, viewed 296 times

• What Devices Are Best For GPS Tracking of Children?
  One way that parents can keep track of their children from the comfort of their own home is to equip them with a GPS child locator. These small units can be worn by your children, or tucked away in a pocket or bag. The important thing is that they quickly get into the habit of carrying it with them, without a second thought.
  Published 29Jun2010, viewed 275 times

• Child GPS Tracking - Can it Help You Give Your Child More Freedom?
  Any parent who has ever lost track of a child, even if for just a few moments, will understand what a stressful experience this is. Nevertheless, parents do understand that it is important not to deprive their children of too much liberty and freedom so they can have the kinds of life experience that helps them to develop into well balanced adults.
  Published 22Jun2010, viewed 209 times

• Four Fun and Practical Uses for a GPS Tracker
  One of the great things about many technologies is that although they have a serious business application, they can also help to enrich our personal lives, and even inject a little enjoyment. Specifically, GPS trackers can serve a range of purposes, some for business benefit, some just to make our lives that bit more interesting. This article focusses on examples of the latter.
  Published 17Jun2010, viewed 298 times

• GPS Vehicle Tracking, Will It Be Able to Work For My Business?
  A GPS vehicle tracking system can be thought of as having two main elements. Firstly the in-vehicle electronics that includes as a minimum a GPS sensor and a wireless data communications service. Secondly, a tracking server that collects and stores the data from the vehicle, and is able to process the information as well as display the vehicles position and status on a map.
  Published 11Jun2010, viewed 397 times

• Blackberry GPS Software - How to Track Your Staff Working Away From the Office
  There are many business applications where a knowledge of the location of a workforce can deliver tangible benefits, both efficiency gains and cost savings, as well as duty-of-care applications. With GPS enabled mobile phones such as Blackberries becoming widespread, the cost and convenience of tracking employees is so low that many businesses are now taking full advantage of this approach.
  Published 03Jun2010, viewed 303 times

• How Can GPS Tracing Devices Help With Lone Worker Protection?
  Lone workers face increased risks in their daily activities when compared with their office-based colleagues. Their isolation from workmates means that communications and GPS tracking technology can offer real benefits in ensuring that should the need arise, they can raise and alarm and be confident that their location can be accurately obtained.
  Published 01Jun2010, viewed 307 times

• GPS Tracking Devices - Can They Help Boost Productivity?
  Where a business has a mobile workforce that regularly work away from the office, then knowing where each individual is at any given time can help deliver significant productivity improvements. GPS tracking devices can help to enable this.
  Published 26May2010, viewed 267 times

• How to Keep Commercial Kitchen Extracts and Grease Filters Clean
  In a commercial kitchen it is vital to keep on top of kitchen cleanliness. One of the areas that becomes contaminated most quickly is the extract system that removes the cooking fumes from above the cookers to the outside air. Much of this maintenance can be carried out by the kitchen staff themselves. This article outlines how frequently components need cleaning as well as some of the hazards to look out for.
  Published 01Apr2010, viewed 483 times

• What evidence is there that poor air conditioning maintenance can lead to sick building syndrome?
  As people spend an increasing amount of time working indoors, the quality of indoor air is of more significance to health professionals. A number of studies show the impact of indoor air quality on health, and also that the prevalance of "sick building syndrome" is higher in buildings with air conditioning than without. It is concluded that there is now strong evidence pointing to the necessity to properly maintain air conditioning systems.
  Published 11Mar2010, viewed 545 times

• The Importance of Keeping Air Ventilation Systems Clean
  It is well known that clean, fresh air in buildings is the key to safe, comfortable and efficient working conditions, and that contaminated air is a common cause of Sick Building Syndrome. Inevitably all air duct systems become fouled over a period of time. However it is possible to deal with these issues through a sensible programme of hygiene cleaning.
  Published 06Mar2010, viewed 762 times

• How Can I specify the Service I Require from an Air Duct Cleaning Company?
  For most of us, setting up a robust and appropriate specification for a specialist service such as air duct cleaning or maintenance of an air conditioning or ventilation hygiene system from scratch would be a considerable challenge. Fortunately, the Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) has written a Standard Specification of Ventilation Hygiene, which provides an excellent starting point in writing a tender.
  Published 10Feb2010, viewed 339 times

• How Cleaning Air Ventilation Ducts can help to prevent Sick Building Syndrome
  Whether in an office or factory, ventilation of fresh air into the working environment is needed for a number of reasons, not least of which is to provide oxygen for the occupants to breath. Over time, the air conditioning plant and air ducts will inevitably become contaminated, and it is important that these should be kept clean before they adversely affect the health of the people working within the buildings.
  Published 17Feb2010, viewed 343 times

• How do the Professionals Clean a Commercial Kitchen?
  Kitchen hygiene is always important, but unfortunately dirt, grease and bacteria will inevitably accumulate over time in hard to reach places such as behind or between work units, or on the walls and ceilings. The best way to address this inevitable build-up is to schedule regular deep-cleans by professionals who have the knowledge, experience and tools to efficiently clean those parts that cannot be readily cleaned on a day-to-day basis.
  Published 04Feb2010, viewed 835 times

• How to Care for Stainless-Steel in a Kitchen Environment
  Whether you are running a commercial or domestic kitchen, it is important to be able to keep your work surfaces clean. Stainless-steel is a popular material, especially in commercial kitchens, and for good reason. It's surface is smooth and pore-free which makes it difficult for bacteria to gain a strong foothold. It is also relatively easy to clean provided that you know how best to deal with different types of contamination.
  Published 21Jan2010, viewed 252 times

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