The university’s security team shares how they’ve moved from an outdated, fragmented system to a streamlined, real-time solution that has significantly improved incident response and engagement with the university community.
CriticalArc talks to the team at Gold Coast Health (GCH) in Queensland, Australia, about the impact of SafeZone on how safety is managed across their diverse healthcare teams.
SafeZone had been used by the University of Kent to ensure student wellbeing and safety since 2016 – then, in 2020, the security department identified potential to go further.
HOST delivers accommodation management solutions at the UK’s Hinkley Point C (HPC) project, working for the New Nuclear Build Generation Company (NNBGenCo).
With teaching and research facilities spread across nine locations in London and beyond, Imperial is home to more than 25,000 students and staff around the world. A solution was sought to help mitigate these risks and send targeted alerts to specific groups defined by location and user type.
In 2020 Sydney Trains became the first rail operator to introduce SafeZone from CriticalArc, providing its staff with enhanced protection and enabling faster emergency response to incidents across the network.
Since 2016 the University of Queensland has been among the most committed advocates of SafeZone technology, using it to improve safety for over 52,000 students and 6,600 staff at three campuses.
FCC Group is the first global corporation to start using SafeZone as a multinational safeguarding solution for all its employees when working overseas, as well as their accompanying family members.
Heriot-Watt University has been named as International University of the Year by “The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018”. It was the first British university to open a campus in Dubai where it now has almost 5,000 students and staff; and its Malaysia campus has around 3,000 students.
University of York was one of the first UK universities to recogniZe SafeZone’s potential to bring existing security and other services together onto one simple platform. The app is now used widely by the university community and accepted as part of everyday life.