A community social-services worker walking alone through a neighbourhood in the early evening
CheckMate Customer Story

Ten years of safer shifts in high-risk environments

Industry: Housing & social services  •  Lone workers: Staff in high-risk settings  •  Customer since: 2015

When your staff work alone in high-risk environments, a check-in system is not a box-ticking exercise, it is the difference between someone being supported and someone being on their own. The Victoria Cool Aid Society has trusted CheckMate with exactly that since 2015.

2015
A trusted CheckMate partner since
24/7
Consistent check-ins and emergency support
Safe Walk
Newest feature, well received by staff

The challenge

Cool Aid's employees work alone in high-risk environments, where meeting regulatory obligations is the baseline and real-world safety is the actual goal. The organization needed a partner it could rely on for consistent check-ins and genuine emergency support, not just compliance paperwork.

Why CheckMate

CheckMate has been that partner for nearly a decade. Beyond reliability, what has kept the relationship strong is service and value: responsive support, easy collaboration, and pricing that works for a non-profit.

"CheckMate has been a trusted lone worker partner for our organization since 2015. Their pricing is excellent, their customer service is fantastic, and they have consistently been responsive and easy to work with."

— Natalia Day, Victoria Cool Aid Society

How it works

The day-to-day value is the consistency: regular check-ins and emergency support that the team can count on. More recently, Cool Aid rolled out CheckMate's Safe Walk feature, and the response from staff has been positive.

"Their service helps us meet our regulatory obligations, but more importantly, it provides consistent check-ins and emergency support so we can trust that our employees are safer when working alone in high-risk environments."

— Natalia Day, Victoria Cool Aid Society

The verdict

The newest addition has landed just as well as the core service.

"We also recently introduced the Safe Walk feature, and our staff report they appreciate it, and find using it simple and easy."

— Natalia Day, Victoria Cool Aid Society
Verified CheckMate Partner
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