How Mining, Oil and Gas Companies Can Benefit From a GPS in-Vehicle Monitoring System
Calling all businesses in the mining, oil and gas sectors. How do you track your assets on and off the mining site? How geographically spread is your mining operations? What solutions do you need to make your operation more cost-effective and more efficient?
These are just the highlights of your business needs. The mining world is in constant motion. It requires coordination of many different factors in your operation. Thus it demands an intensive safety monitoring and tracking of assets moving in and out of the mining sites as well as of personnel working in potentially dangerous areas.
The Solution
A GPS truck tracking device can be beneficial to your operations. It provides all the necessary tracking tools and reports needed to monitor and measure your fleet’s performance. As a result, you can manage your fleet better, reduce operating costs, identify efficiencies and improve driver’s safety and performance.
Addressed key areas in your mining operations
Monitor and manage driver performance
OHS&E requires you to meet the standards in the use of vehicles and in the driving habits of your personnel. Sadly, vehicles are not always driven in an acceptable manner creating risk among your vehicles, your mining byproducts and your personnel.
Now with a powerful in-vehicle monitoring system (IVMS), you can:
–counsel and monitor drivers who are most at risk due to their poor driving habits.
-monitor the use of seat belts, 4WD is engaged on known sealed roads, speeding, harsh braking, harsh cornering and entering in ‘no-go’ or hazardous areas or zones.
-Link mobile activities directly to a driver requiring your personnel to become accountable and responsible for their actions
Secure safety of lone workers
Using the very latest in communications and GPS vehicle tracking technology, you can minimise the inherent risk to lone workers as you can monitor all their activities in real time. Should a lone worker be involved in a vehicle incident, you will receive emergency alerts and notifications so you can dispatch search and rescue crews without delay to your distressed worker.
Manage the security of your valuable assets
Plant, equipment and mobile assets are vulnerable to theft and misuse especially when project sites are located at remote locations. With a GPS car tracker, you have a low cost but effective means to track your organisation’s most valuable assets from almost any location in the globe. You will know the very instant your assets leave or are removed from their allocated zones reducing the rate of theft whilst increasing the rate of asset recovery.
Reduced operational costs
A GPS in-vehicle tracking monitoring solution can help you in:
-Finding alternate routes for a traffic-free and faster journey helping you save on gas as well
-Real time tracking and monitoring which prohibits drivers to congregate for lunch or getting out of their way to do unrelated tasks
-Reducing unauthorised activities
-Receiving more accurate time cards
-Assigning the nearest vehicle to a rush job thus maximising productivity without expanding your current team
Finding the right GPS vehicle tracking solution for you
Whilst there are many products available in the market today, not all of them are created equal. And with all advertisement claiming they are the best, choosing the right solution and device for your fleet can be confusing. So for a low cost yet highly effective GPS vehicle tracking system, opt for the market leader in GPS in vehicle monitoring solution and service provider in Australasia, Securatrak.
You can reach them at 1300 653 395, send an email to sales@securatrak.com.au or visit http://www.securatrak.com.au/Solutions/Fleet-Vehicle-Tracking
