Lone Worker Safety for Mobile Veterinary Services
Protecting farm and equine vets in the UK's most dangerous working environments. Protect your teams for £39.50 per user, per year — smartphone-only, zero hardware, deploy in under an hour.
The real risks Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets lone workers face
Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets staff regularly work alone — in the community, on client sites, or out of hours. These are the hazards your lone working policy must address.
Large-Animal Injury
High-velocity kicks, crushing, or loss of consciousness during solo treatment of horses or cattle.
Equine vet injury rates are higher than the fire brigade or prison service.
Client Aggression
Intimidation or verbal abuse from owners, often during high-stress home euthanasia visits.
57% of vets in clinical practice felt intimidated by clients in 2021.
Out-of-Hours Isolation
Solo night call-outs to remote farms where help is hours away if an accident occurs.
Around nine in ten equine and mixed-practice vets regularly work out-of-hours.
RCVS Practice Standards Scheme & Health and Safety Law
All UK veterinary practices have a legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 to assess and manage risk for staff working off-site or ambulatory, including lone working. The RCVS Practice Standards Scheme (PSS) is a voluntary accreditation, joined by around two-thirds of UK practices, whose Core Standards align with these legal requirements and expect a robust approach to H&S risk assessment for ambulatory work.
Explore the full UK compliance frameworkRCVS
Whether or not a practice holds PSS accreditation, the underlying legal duty to protect staff, including the provision of emergency alerting for lone workers, still applies.
How The Sentry maps to Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets risks
Each Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets hazard below is met by a specific Sentry feature — not generic safety software, but protection built for the way your teams work.
Unwitnessed kick/injury
One-touch panic alarm
Hostile home visit
Silent distress signal
Remote rural call-out
Live location sharing
Built for the way Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets teams work
The whole platform deploys on the smartphones your Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets staff already carry — no devices to buy, charge, or replace.
Silent SOS alert
Alert the practice during high-tension client encounters.
Automatic video capture
Captures evidence of incidents during client encounters.
Private incident reporting
Securely log near-misses and animal-handling injuries.
Every plan includes the full Sentry feature set
The same two-sided system — staff app plus manager portal — protects your Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets 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 Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets teams trust The Sentry
A UK-built, self-funded platform with the evidence trail regulators and procurement teams expect.
Supports RCVS PSS Standards
Zero Hardware Costs
Unbeatable value. No lock-in.
Vehicle trackers are useless if you are incapacitated inside a barn; The Sentry stays on the vet's person.
Common questions from Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets buyers
“Injuries are just part of the job”
Normalising risk is dangerous. The Sentry ensures you are found fast when a standard task goes wrong.
“We have a buddy system”
Informal check-ins are often forgotten during busy on-call shifts; The Sentry is automated.
Mobile Veterinary & Equine/Farm Vets lone worker safety FAQ
Does it work for vet nurses?
Absolutely. It is ideal for nurses conducting solo home visits or weight clinics.
Is it expensive?
At £39.50/year, it is a tiny fraction of the cost of a locum vet if a staff member is sidelined by injury.
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