Lone Worker Safety for Agriculture, Forestry & Estates
Protecting farmers, livestock handlers, and estate rangers in the UK's highest-risk sector. Protect your teams for £39.50 per user, per year — smartphone-only, zero hardware, deploy in under an hour.
The real risks Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates lone workers face
Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates staff regularly work alone — in the community, on client sites, or out of hours. These are the hazards your lone working policy must address.
Machinery & Vehicles
Crushing or overturning incidents involving tractors, telehandlers, and ATVs/quad bikes.
9 of the 27 agricultural deaths recorded by HSE for the year to March 2024 were transport-related.
Livestock Handling
Being crushed or trampled by cattle or horses while working alone in yards or pasture.
Animal handling is a leading cause of death on British farms.
Remote Incapacitation
Survivable injuries turning fatal because the worker cannot be found for hours.
Agriculture accounts for around a fifth of all UK workplace deaths, despite making up just 1% of the workforce.
HSWA 1974 / Red Tractor
Red Tractor now mandates a written H&S policy for all assured farms with workers. HSE INDG73 requires a system to raise the alarm in remote areas.
Explore the full UK compliance frameworkHSE
HSE inspectors pay close attention to "incapacitated and unfound" scenarios, cases where a worker survives an initial injury but isn't found in time, and expect a verified check-in system for field staff.
How The Sentry maps to Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates risks
Each Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates hazard below is met by a specific Sentry feature — not generic safety software, but protection built for the way your teams work.
ATV/Quad overturns
Live location sharing
Livestock aggression
One-touch panic alarm
Poor signal isolation
Automatic video capture
Built for the way Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates teams work
The whole platform deploys on the smartphones your Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates staff already carry — no devices to buy, charge, or replace.
One-touch SOS
Alert family or the farm hub instantly during a crisis.
Live GPS location
Accurate tracking across vast estates and remote woodland.
Friends & Family licences
Protect the whole farm family with 3 free personal licences.
Every plan includes the full Sentry feature set
The same two-sided system — staff app plus manager portal — protects your Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates teams. No hardware, no IT integration, live in under an hour.
Home-screen widget SOS
Exclusive to The Sentry: fire the alarm, share your location, and start recording straight from a home-screen widget — one touch, without opening the app. In a real emergency, the extra steps simply aren’t there.
Loud or silent panic alarm
One alarm, two modes. Loud mode sounds an audible siren; silent mode is completely discreet for confrontational situations. Both instantly share live location with your managers and Nearby Team.
Automatic video capture
Recording starts the moment an alarm triggers. Unalterable footage is saved to the cloud audit trail, emailed as a view/download link, and kept on the handset. (Loud mode records video only; silent mode also captures audio.)
Lone Worker Timer
Session-based timed check-ins: set your own interval and the app prompts you to check in during a session. If a check-in is missed, help is escalated. Added specifically for the wider lone worker sector.
Fake phone call
Defuse a tense situation with a simulated incoming call that uses your phone’s native ringtone and generates a fresh caller number each time — so it appears entirely genuine.
Live location sharing (user-led)
Real-time GPS — but only during a work session you choose to start. The Sentry never tracks passively or automatically, so your personal time stays private. Privacy by design.
Private incident reporting
A confidential, whistleblowing-aligned channel to report harassment — with the option to submit anonymously. Once sent, no trace is left on the device: no email confirmation, nothing stored locally. Satisfies EHRC Step 4.
Friends & Family licences
Every staff member gets three free personal licences, so their family can use the same safety technology — entirely separate from the employer’s account.
Manager portal — included on every account
- Live dashboard of all active team sessions — worldwide map, unlimited users visible
- Configurable incident-report routing per user or branch, with read-receipt tracking
- Complete encrypted audit trail with unlimited history, plus PDF export of incident reports
- ERA 2025 compliance documentation pack and downloadable, timestamped audit trails
- Multi-branch / multi-site structuring on one account, and unlimited manager accounts
Why Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates teams trust The Sentry
A UK-built, self-funded platform with the evidence trail regulators and procurement teams expect.
Supports Red Tractor Standards
Built for Rural Signal Gaps
Rural Safety Leader
Unbeatable value. No lock-in.
Replaces expensive satellite hardware with a smartphone app that works with the devices farmers already carry.
Common questions from Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates buyers
“I have no signal in the back fields”
The Sentry stores alerts to resend on reconnection and provides a definitive last-known location.
“I've farmed alone for 30 years”
Modern machinery and livestock risks make a backup system a common-sense survival tool, not just compliance.
Agriculture, Forestry & Rural Estates lone worker safety FAQ
Is it rugged enough?
We recommend using a ruggedised case (like Otterbox) to protect your phone on the farm.
Can it track my contractors?
Yes. You can invite seasonal contractors to the app for the duration of their work.
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