Personal Safety Device
The Everbridge Personal Safety Device (PSD) delivers rapid, hands-free protection and location-aware alerts, ensuring assistance is always within reach, whether employees are on-site, traveling, or in remote or high-risk areas.
Revolutionizing employee protection with the Personal Safety Device
Nearly 2 million Americans report workplace violence each year, underscoring the need for fast, reliable access to help. The total cost of workplace injuries in 2024 was $181.4 billion – making employee protection not just best practice, but essential.
The Personal Safety Device (PSD) is a cutting-edge wearable designed to enhance employee safety. Whether on-site, off-site, or traveling, the PSD ensures immediate access to assistance in emergencies.
With location awareness via IoT CAT-M LTE, Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) for indoor positioning, and WiFi backup, it operates independently of personal phones. Its compact, user-focused design delivers peace of mind with long battery life and consistent connectivity.
The PSD sets a new standard in workplace safety, empowering employees with security and confidence on the go.
Key features
Enhanced employee safety
The PSD enhances employee safety with location awareness and actionable alerts, providing protection both on-site and on the move.
Advanced location technology
Powered by cutting-edge IoT capabilities, the PSD offers exceptional indoor location information, allowing you to track employees’ movements with confidence.
Dependable reliability
The PSD offers long battery life, smart alerts, and enhanced connectivity, ensuring safety without relying on personal devices – providing peace of mind for both employees and your organization.
How the Personal Safety Device works
The PSD combines IoT and GPS via GNSS to provide location awareness, allowing security teams to quickly locate employees in distress and deliver assistance.
Its advanced fall detection technology automatically alerts responders during falls, sudden drops, or emergencies such as attacks, accidents, or medical issues, enabling help when needed.
Designed for ease of use, the lightweight 2.5 oz device features an intuitive interface, a rechargeable battery lasting 10–12 days, and seamless usability, making safety simple and accessible for everyone.
Enhance safety and resilience
The Personal Safety Device enhances employee safety and organizational resilience by providing location awareness and intelligent alerts.
Its standalone operation enables seamless emergency response, reducing risks and increasing operational confidence.
With this device, employees feel secure and supported, fostering a safer workplace and greater peace of mind.
Safety first: 24/7 monitoring
Enhance your organization’s safety with Everbridge’s optional 24/7/365 professional monitoring service.
When an SOS is triggered, or a fall is detected, trained specialists instantly respond—contacting the employee, verifying the situation, and coordinating emergency services if needed. You’ll receive real-time updates from alert to resolution, ensuring no incident goes unanswered.
This always-on protection gives employees confidence in the field and provides safety teams with critical peace of mind.
Keeping people safe and organizations running
Powered by Purpose-built AI, Everbridge solutions protect organizations from the impact of critical events. By combining market-leading innovation, decision-ready risk intelligence, and full lifecycle automation, only Everbridge High Velocity CEM™ helps organizations know earlier, respond faster, and improve continuously, amidst the increasing frequency and volume of critical events.
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Personal Safety Device FAQs
The Everbridge Personal Safety Device (PSD) is a wearable safety solution designed to help organizations protect employees working alone, remotely, or in higher-risk environments. The device allows users to quickly trigger an SOS alert, share location information, and connect with security or response teams during emergencies or situations where immediate assistance may be needed.
Yes. The Personal Safety Device is designed to operate independently without requiring a smartphone app for core emergency alerting functions. This helps organizations support employees who may work in environments where phones are unavailable, impractical, restricted, or difficult to access during emergencies or hazardous situations.
When the SOS button is activated, the device can trigger alerts to designated security teams, supervisors, monitoring personnel, or emergency response workflows based on organizational configuration. Alerts may include the user’s identity, location information, and escalation instructions to help organizations coordinate rapid response and support personnel safety during incidents.
Location accuracy depends on environmental conditions, available connectivity, and configured technologies such as GPS, Wi-Fi, or cellular positioning. Outdoor location visibility is typically more precise, while indoor accuracy may vary depending on building structure, available wireless infrastructure, and deployment configuration designed to improve operational visibility during emergencies.
The Personal Safety Device supports configurable privacy controls, role-based access, and governance policies designed to help organizations manage employee location and operational data responsibly. Organizations can configure workflows, permissions, and monitoring practices to balance workforce safety requirements with privacy expectations and applicable regulatory or organizational policies.
The PSD may use cellular, GPS, Wi-Fi, or other supported connectivity methods depending on deployment configuration and operational requirements. In environments with limited coverage, organizations can configure escalation workflows, monitoring processes, and communication redundancies designed to improve reliability and maintain operational visibility during emergencies.
Battery life depends on device configuration, connectivity usage, monitoring frequency, and operational conditions, but the PSD is designed to support extended use during normal work activities. Devices are typically recharged through standard charging methods that help organizations maintain readiness across shifts, field operations, and distributed workforce environments.
24/7 professional monitoring services can help organizations manage alerts, verify incidents, escalate emergencies, and coordinate response activities alongside internal security or operational teams. Monitoring workflows are typically configured based on organizational procedures, escalation paths, and operational requirements to improve response coordination and employee safety outcomes.
The PSD is commonly used by lone workers, healthcare personnel, field technicians, hospitality staff, retail employees, transportation workers, utility crews, educators, and other personnel working in distributed or higher-risk environments. Organizations across healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, energy, retail, education, and public sector operations often use wearable safety technologies to strengthen workforce protection and operational resilience.
