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Paul Warmington
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Are there any known health and safety issues concerning offender tagging in a contact centre environment? My main concern is the possibility that the tag transmission may interfere our headsets/phones causing an accoustic incident, similar to the affect mobile phones have.
Also, are there any discrimination laws affecting this?
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Ciaron Dunne
Member - 85 posts
Jem,
There are a number of legal requirements under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act relating to the employment of ex-offenders. You can download a good practice guide (PDF format) from:
http://www.disclosure.gov.uk/docs/pdf/employingpeoplewithconviction.pdf
With regards health and safety issues relating to electronic tagging, I will be interested to hear if any other members have come across this before.
Have you tried contacting the supplier/ manaufacturer of the tagging?
We will make some enquiries in the industry about whether there are any known health and safety risks.
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Ciaron Dunne
Member - 85 posts
Jem,
I put your query to Reliance Secure Task Management, who advised that they were not aware of any risks to health and safety. This is because the radio frequency used by electronic tags should be too low to be harmful to either people or equipment. The tag only needs to transmit as far as a receiver in the person's home, which then communicates with the monitoring centre.
If you would like to discuss the issue in more depth, they recommend that you get in touch with a company called Premier Geografix Ltd, which manufactures the tagging equipment they use:
http://www.premiergeografix.com/
Hope that helps.
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