Quad bike rollover in the back field. No signal. We still get help to you.
Satellite-fallback SOS for when there's no GSM mast for miles. Automatic fall and impact detection. Livestock and hazard-zone awareness, machinery pre-use checklists, a safe-task timer that raises the alarm if you're overdue, and a neighbour peer-aid network.
- 21×UK fatality rate vs all-industry
- 30/yrUK farm-worker deaths (HSE 2024/25)
- Off-gridSOS over satellite when there's no signal
Agriculture has the worst fatal injury rate of any UK industry — HSE reports around 30 worker deaths a year at a rate 21 times the all-industry average. The job is overwhelmingly solo: quad bikes in remote fields, livestock work in single-person yards, grain stores and slurry pits with nobody in earshot. Standard panic apps fail the moment the worker loses GSM signal, which is most of the working day on most UK farms. We pair satellite SOS over a Garmin / SPOT / Iridium communicator with automatic fall and impact detection, a safe-task timer that escalates with the worker's location when a job runs overdue, and a neighbour peer-aid network — because a neighbour is usually far closer than a rural ambulance.
The pain points your existing stack misses.
- Quad bike and ATV rollovers are the #1 farm killer — and the worker is always alone when it happens
- Most UK farmland has no GSM signal — consumer panic apps simply fail at the moment of crisis
- Livestock injuries (bull attacks, cattle crush, ram strikes) happen at close range with no time to call for help
- Rural 999 ambulance response averages 20+ minutes — the nearest neighbour is usually 5 minutes away with better access
- Family-run farms with a single farmhand have no "colleague" to notice when they don't come home for tea
- Children and contractors on-site need separate visibility — current safety tools treat the whole farm as one worker
Built specifically for agriculture & farming.
Satellite-fallback SOS
When GSM drops, SOS routes over a paired Garmin inReach, SPOT or Iridium satellite communicator into the same escalation chain as a phone alarm — and where the phone has Emergency SOS via satellite, Vygard points the worker straight into it. Works from any field in the UK when there's no cellular signal.
Automatic fall & impact detection
A hard impact or prolonged stillness raises the alarm when the worker can't — with a cancellable 30-second countdown so a dropped phone doesn't cry wolf. Live on iOS and Android.
Livestock & hazard zones
Tag fields and areas with hazards — bull, calving cow, ram, slurry, overhead power, fragile roof. A worker entering gives a one-tap acknowledge, recorded for the audit trail.
Machinery pre-use checklists
Per-machine pre-use checklists (quad, tractor, telehandler, chainsaw) with a saved completions log — PUWER / LOLER evidence without paper.
Neighbour peer-aid network
A directory of opted-in neighbours a lone worker can call on for help — usually far closer than a rural ambulance. Request aid in one tap, with your location.
Safe-task timer
A worker declares "back paddock, 2 hours". If they don't close the task in time, the alarm fires automatically with their exact location — no app to open in a crisis.
The platform underneath the Farm pack.
Sector packs add the workflow; this is the operational layer every customer gets regardless of vertical — billing, comms, AI dispatch and trust signals.
Multi-channel SOS cascade
Push + SMS + WhatsApp + voice fan-out in parallel. AI re-ranks responders by distance + role + rationale before dispatch.
AI Virtual Watcher
Three Claude-powered flows: SOS narrative + mandatory ack, PPE/cert gap detection, proactive welfare pings.
Comms allowance + bundles
Monthly SMS / WhatsApp / voice quotas included. Overage auto-bills; pre-buy bundles for cheaper rates. SOS always sends.
Admin broadcasts + inbox
One-to-many alerts to any worker subset, ack-tracked for regulator evidence. Per-worker channel prefs respected.
Trust + verify panel
At-a-glance integrations status and a dry-run test SOS so you can prove the dispatch before betting a real shift on it.
Audit ledger (HMAC-signed)
Every action stamped to ID + timestamp + UUID. Regulator-ready PDF export with one click.
Stripe billing + Customer Portal
Per-active-worker pricing. 14-day trial, no card up-front. Self-serve plan changes and bundle top-ups.
REST + Webhook API
Push incidents into ServiceNow / RIDDOR-to-HR / SIEM (Splunk, Datadog, Elastic). GraphQL on Enterprise.
Your workers lose signal. Their safety net doesn't.
Out on site, in the cab, deep in a valley — agriculture & farming teams hit blackspots exactly where an incident is most likely. An SOS still counts with no signal: it's saved on the phone with its last location and fired automatically the moment coverage returns, timestamped for the audit ledger. And where the phone has Emergency SOS via satellite, Vygard points the worker straight into it. No £200 messenger to issue, charge or remember — it's the phone every worker already carries.
How off-grid coverage worksBlackspot-proof store-and-forward
SOS raised with no signal is saved with its timestamp and last GPS fix, then delivered the instant a bar returns — logged to the audit ledger, nothing lost.
Satellite, built into the phone
Newer iPhones and Androids include Emergency SOS via satellite. With no signal, Vygard surfaces it at the critical moment — no extra hardware, no second network.
Pair a communicator — optional
Truly remote crews can pair a Garmin inReach or similar. Optional — for most workers the phone is already the safety net.
- HSE Agriculture Health & Safety Strategy
- PUWER 1998
- LOLER 1998
- DEFRA Farm Safety Partnership
- BS 8484-aligned
Create your account, invite your team, they sign in.
Vygard is one app for every industry — workers don't sign themselves up. You create the account, add your people, and they download Vygard and sign in with their phone number.
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Create your account
Set up your organisation online in a couple of minutes — free 14-day trial, no card.
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Invite your team
Add your workers from the dashboard. Their Vygard Farm Safety service pack is picked at first login.
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They download & sign in
Workers install Vygard and sign in with their phone number — nothing to configure.
Download Vygard — the Farm pack is built in.
Scan to install on the worker's phone. They sign in and pick Agriculture & farming; the Vygard Farm Safety pack loads automatically.
See the Farm pack on your own data.
Try the live demo or book a 30-minute call. We'll show you the workflow your team would actually use.