Safety technology provider, Peoplesafe, has extended its partnership with the UK’s pioneering personal safety charity and leading stalking authority, the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. Combining a wealth of expertise, the partnership will offer an ongoing holistic service to organisations, combining expert advice on personal safety strategy – including policy creation and training – with industry-leading personal safety technology that protects people in every situation.

Established in 1986, the Suzy Lamplugh Trust was founded following the disappearance of 25-year-old Suzy Lamplugh, an estate agent and lone worker who went to meet a client and never returned. Suzy was never found and was legally declared dead in 1993. The Trust is widely regarded as a field expert in lone-working and personal safety training and endorses the selection and use of lone-worker technologies in line with requirements of the workforce to safeguard employees. 

Working together, the Suzy Lamplugh Trust will undertake a full audit for Peoplesafe’s existing and new clients, providing them with implementation plans to help upskill and empower workforces to effectively assess, mitigate, and manage personal safety risks, while Peoplesafe will work on executing plans to ensure the right technology is used for the right situations and rolling them out at scale.

 

“For more than 37 years, the Suzy Lamplugh Trust has worked tirelessly to raise greater awareness of personal safety and stalking issues. Through the introduction of pioneering technology, we are excited to join forces in order to drive our shared vision, to demand systemic change and promote a society in which people are better supported and feel safer” says Naz Dossa, CEO, Peoplesafe.

“The Suzy Lamplugh Trust is delighted to continue its collaboration with Peoplesafe to support organisations in addressing lone-working and improving personal safety. We promote the use of lone worker safety technologies as part of Suzy’s Charter for Workplace Safety and look forward to working across all sectors to embed personal safety as a priority across all workplaces” says Emma Lingley-Clark, Interim CEO of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust.

 

To mark the partnership, Peoplesafe and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust will be hosting a joint webinar, hosted by the Women in Health & Safety group on 19th March. 

 

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For further information please contact: Kally Carder at Nobull Comms on 07900 915759 or email [email protected] 

 

Editor’s notes

About Peoplesafe

Peoplesafe is the leading provider of employee protection services in the UK. It partners with public and private sector organisations to ensure their employees are safe as they do their job.

Peoplesafe has 20 years’ experience in providing state of the art technology, and innovative systems to help employers carry out their duty of care to protect employees. Employees in the Peoplesafe network are supported round the clock by an in-house team of Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) Controllers who answer and monitor alarms raised through personal safety devices and apps.

Peoplesafe’s service is fully accredited, complies with the National Policy Chief Council’s security system policy and keeps employee data secure.

www.peoplesafe.co.uk 

 

About the Suzy Lamplugh Trust

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust is widely regarded as field expert in lone-working and occupational personal safety training, stalking training, and related consultancy, campaigning, and support services.

It has a long history of working within the Violence Against Women and Girls sector, dealing particularly with stalking and harassment, given that it is believed, and indeed the evidence suggests Suzy may have been targeted by a stalker. The National Stalking Helpline was set up by the Trust in 2010, it has helped over 75,000 victims since its inception, and is the only service of its kind globally.

The Trust exists so that what happened to Suzy does not happen to anyone else, and for 37 years, it has worked towards reducing the risk of abusive, aggressive, and violent behaviours by empowering people to take steps to avoid, mitigate or manage risks across all aspects of their life.

The Trust campaigns heavily to raise greater awareness of personal safety and stalking issues, demand systematic change where needed, influence public policy, and promote a society in which people are safer and feel safer. Its longest running campaign has been the licensing of the operators and drivers of minicabs and private hire vehicles, which begun in 1998. This campaigning and policy work has been pivotal to changes in legislation and practice nationally – including in the introduction of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, which introduced specific offences for stalking, and the 2020 stalking protection orders.

www.suzylamplugh.org