Your lone-worker map now warns you
before the weather does

The map now warns you before the weather does

The biggest change in this release is that the dispatcher map is no longer just a set of dots on a street plan. It now carries live situational data layered over your workers, so a controller can see the risk building around someone before it reaches them. Three independent feeds, each on its own toggle: live flood warnings from the Environment Agency, high-wind advisories from the Met Office, and recorded street crime from police.uk.

For a desk-bound team that is a nice-to-have. For a field or outdoor team it changes the job. A controller watching a tree surgeon on a river-valley site can see a flood warning light up the area before the call comes in. A warden on an exposed moor, a Met Office amber wind warning over their head. A lone worker parked up overnight, the recent-crime picture for that spot. The point is not the data itself, it is that the person responsible for the worker sees it on the same screen as the worker, in time to act.

Each layer is a toggle, so the map stays readable. Turn on what matters for the shift and leave the rest off.

One tap to call any worker, from anywhere in the console

The second big change is in-app voice calling. A dispatcher can now call a worker directly from the console, with one tap, from an open incident, from the workers list, or straight from a pin on the map. There is no looking up a mobile number and dialling from a separate phone.

The call rings both the worker's Vygard app and their phone, so it reaches them whichever they have to hand, and the whole call is logged against the incident. That matters in two directions. The dispatcher gets a faster, friction-free way to check on someone the moment an alert looks off, and the record of who called, when, and about what is captured automatically rather than reconstructed afterwards.

Built for field and countryside teams

A lot of this release points the same way: at the people who work outdoors, alone, and often out of easy reach. Rangers, wardens, foresters and estate teams at organisations like the Forestry Commission, the National Trust and Natural England do some of the most exposed lone work there is, and tools built for a security guard in a city centre do not fit it.

Vygard now has a deliberate fit for that work. The live map intelligence is aimed squarely at it, the off-grid satellite SOS that already shipped matters most where there is no mast for miles, and the risk-scaled tasks and check-in cadence are built for jobs that run long in places nobody can see. If your people spend their days in woodland, on moorland, along rivers or across open estate, the platform now speaks that language rather than retrofitting a city tool to it.

Tasks now carry a risk level

Not every overdue job is equally urgent. A routine check that runs ten minutes late is not the same as a high-risk task that has gone quiet. Tasks in Vygard now carry a risk level, and the platform uses it: overdue high-risk work escalates faster than routine work, so the controller's attention is pulled to the job most likely to be a problem rather than to whichever timer happened to trip first.

It is a small change with a real effect on a busy board. The escalation is proportionate to the hazard, which is exactly what a risk assessment asks you to do in the first place.

Hands-free SOS with Siri and Hey Google

Raising the alarm no longer needs a free hand. A worker can trigger an SOS by voice, through Siri on iPhone or Hey Google on Android, so the alarm goes out even when both hands are full, gloved, or trapped. It joins the automatic fall and man-down detection and the one-tap and satellite SOS already in the app, as one more way to reach help when reaching for a phone is the thing you cannot do.

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