Optii Keeper to launch Panic Button

Alarms have been raised among hoteliers worldwide about the personal safety of housekeeping staff while on duty. Optii Solutions will include a panic button in its next iPod release of Optii Keeper to alert all nearby staff. The recent Strauss-Kahn incident has flagged concerns about the safety of housekeeping staff. This predominantly female group of workers often work alone and behind closed doors, where supervision and surveillance measures are ineffective.

While every chain is revisiting their policies and procedures and deepening employee awareness, effective security comes not only from prevention, but also from managing a situation effectively when it arises.

Hotel managers and Unions are united in the search for a more effective layer of security for this remote workforce, which, by nature of what they do, can find themselves in unsafe circumstances.

“The Optii Keeper software solution already enables unprecedented operational and productivity improvements for hotels.” says Soenke Weiss, CEO of Optii Solutions. “While room attendants already have peace of mind knowing that supervisors know where they are at any given time, adding a panic button to the iPod carried by every room attendant and supervisor enables Optii Keeper to alert all other staff in the vicinity and is a logical extension of the solution. Colleagues, managers and security personnel will be alerted and are able to respond to a situation immediately once an employee feels unsafe.”