2 April 2021
A quick note to say that our offices are all closed for the Easter Holiday period in New Zealand and we will be back on the 6th of April.
10 February 2021
Great story about us and our recent investment from Punakaiki Fund in the Otago daily times today!
8 February 2021
Some great coverage in the NZ Herald on our recent investment from Punakaiki Investment Fund
1 December 2020
Work is underway to integrate the Twig Lone Worker devices into the GetHomeSafe Welfare Monitoring platform.
12 November 2020
Risk mapping and tagging hazard is now a thing in GHS.
22 October 2020
We are pleased to welcome a new partnership and reseller agreement with Total Sense Solutions, the New Zealand distributor of the world class TWIG lone worker devices.
26 June 2020
Mandown alerting via our iOS Lone Worker app is now live, along with several other minor improvements and bugs fixes in version 1.2.2 (77).
8 June 2020
Mandown alerting through an app is now in beta testing.
27 April 2020
Our biggest improvement in the past five years is now live!
26 April 2020
Thank you Jacob McSweeny for making the time for the interview and article.
23 April 2020
Scheduled maintenance has been completed and all quality assessment checks have been completed and the system is fully back online.
21 April 2020
Please note we are undertaking scheduled maintenance on the 23th between 5.30am and 6.30am
20 April 2020
With the initial COVID-19 lock downs being slowly lifted we are receiving more and more requests from existing and new customers on how to using our tracking app for contact tracing.
24 March 2020
24th March 12pm
19 March 2020
It is mostly business as usual for GetHomeSafe with all non-essential contact (onsite training) and travel paused until further notice.
17 March 2020
A small change to our pricing is coming into effect on the 1st of April 2020, with our listed pricing being solely in USD.
3 March 2020
We are please to announce that one of our biggest user experience investments is nearing completion.
3 February 2020
Some big news for us, 2020 has started with a big move from Queenstown to a brand new office in Dunedin.
3 December 2019
GetHomeSafe has just launched our full service Implementation Support package, with the main feature being our new eLearning modules.
20 November 2019
We are please to announce that GetHomeSafe has fully integrated with our second external tracking partner, eRoads.
7 October 2019
We are super excited to let this one out of the bag, we are current beta testing a combined vehicle & remote/lone worker tracking solution.
13 September 2019
You can now export a report of all check in notes made from both your App, but more impressively from your Garmin InReach, allowing hazard reporting on the go.
17 July 2019
Filming has wrapped up, we are now full steam ahead editing and compiling online learning modules.
2 July 2019
Start a remote worker welfare plan from anywhere in the world, check-in and sign off as homesafe; all from one device!
9 May 2019
Safety monitoring without GPS tracking is now live.
15 February 2019
Several new reporting options are coming online this week, here is a quick summary, we have had great feedback on these, so check them out!
31 January 2019
After a mammoth effort by the team, we submitted a very comprehensive tender to WorkSafe for their Lone Worker Monitoring System requirements in late December and have just been informed...
15 January 2019
Based on our successful implementation of stage one of our integration with Garmin InReach and Spot GEN3 devices, we are rolling out stage two.
24 November 2018
Over the coming weeks we are rolling out a significant package of improvements.
12 September 2018
Between 8pm and 9pm GMT Get Home Safe will be going offline for a short period of time while we perform an important system update.
19 July 2018
Some new features went live today, including a refresh of the content in alert emails and text messages.
10 June 2018
New Security Feature Update.
31 May 2018
Update: Resolved at 7pm UTC 30th May
29 May 2018
Due to the popular demand of recreational pilots logging their flight plans with our free safety app, we have added a couple of new features.
25 May 2018
At Get Home Safe privacy and trust is a fundamental value of why we exist. We take great pride in being trusted by you to process, store and care for...
18 May 2018
Recent updates to our Lone Worker and Personal Safety apps now have the ability to integrate with a wearable Bluetooth panic button.
5 April 2018
While there are lots of panic buttons we could have used, we have chosen V BTTN by vsnmobil.com, a proven and reliable button that integrates seamlessly with both our Android...
28 March 2018
Occupational Health and Safety legislation in most countries has some requirement for putting in place measures for staff who work alone.
15 January 2018
Just a quick note explaining the updates on both our personal safety and corporate safety apps that came out today, 15th of Jan 2018
12 December 2017
Are you weighing up the options of vehicle tracking vs a lone worker safety app for your Journey Management? It may surprise you how many companies use both.
3 November 2017
12.30pm: Some users have been experiencing difficulty interacting with the GHS system since 11.30am 3rd Nov, mainly being unable to finish their tasks or cancel alerted tasks.
20 October 2017
Supervisors can now write notes on a task timeline; perfect for recording all actions taken when following up someone working alone who has not checked in as planned.
14 September 2017
Our system all back up and running!
13 September 2017
17 August 2017
We have listened to your feedback and added a heap of new notification options you for our personal and lone worker safety apps.
8 August 2017
If you are a user of our Android version of our GetHomeSafe – Personal Safety app you will be pleased to know there is a major update ready for downloading...
25 May 2017
We are currently working through some minor login issues for Admin users and expect to have a solution live shortly.
8 May 2017
For our Corporate Safety and Enterprise clients; online storage and viewing of your safety documentation is now live and is included for free in your subscription
4 April 2017
We are pleased to announce to our GetHomeSafe - Corporate clients the arrival of a new Teams Setting page as the replacement of our currently escalation alert process.
28 March 2017
With our latest update of our Android and iOS Corporate Safety Apps we are pleased to announce PIN protection is now optional.
6 March 2017
A new update for our Android Corporate Safety App is now live and should improve the user experience greatly.
1 March 2017
The term Buddy System dates back to the 1940’s and has it’s origins in the US Military, where pilots would look out for each other, often referred to as wingmen,...
1 February 2017
One of our most requested features is now live! You told us and we have listened to you; now you get to listen to us when our system actually phones...
4 January 2017
How many times has your lunch break been quickly eating a sandwich as you drive to the next job?
31 August 2016
While we never set out to be experts in Lone Working policies, we talk daily with organisations working on their safety procedures and policies.
25 July 2016
All be it a modest start, our new Help tab is now live on the lefthand side of your GetHomeSafe - Corporate dashboard!
13 July 2016
Further to our commitment to provide quality designed and developed safety apps we are please to announce our latest version of our Android lone worker safety app is live and...
Our new website is now live!
30 March 2015
We have all said it, “don't worry, I will call you when I get there”.
