Correctional Officer Distress Alarm

Details

• Personal Author:
  Richards E
• Description:
  The primary goal of the Correctional Officer Distress Alarm (CODA) project is to increase the safety of correctional officers. Our objective is to demonstrate the ability of a CODA system to dispatch help to the precise location of a correctional officer in distress. A successful system will mean enhanced security and safety for correctional officers, as well as reductions in "burnout" and turnover. A tracking server will show the location of all tagged officers. Additionally, a protected database of interactions, events, and tracking history will reside on a server that can be accessed by administrators. Some of the features of the CODA product include: 1. Call for Assistance: An officer can call for assistance by a push of a button. This information is sent to the central server which relays the call to dispatch. The server continues to send notifications until an officer responds to the call. Additionally a record of each call is retained along with the time of the initial call and the elapsed time between the call and the recorded response. 2. Assault Alert: The officer tag will detect a fall or assault automatically. An alert will be relayed, so help can be dispatched to the officer's precise location. The officer is not required to take any action. 3. Staff Accountability: Tracking of staff movements, responses, interactions with inmates, and rounds will assist with staffing ratios, training, workflow optimization, and provide liability protection at an unprecedented level in the corrections industry. Our team has successfully met the two specific aims of the Phase I project. The first, was to design and prototype a CODA system. In support of this aim, we have worked with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, correctional officers, prison administrators, and a professional criminologist to distill requirements for CODA. We have produced a correctional officer tracking tag with a demonstrated assault detector and supporting client-server software capable of being scaled for larger deployments. Our team tested this prototype CODA system in a representative prison environment verifying performance in terms of accuracy, latency, and range. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Correctional Facilities Database Occupational Health Safety Violence
• Keywords:
  Assaults Correctional Facilities Databases Monitoring Systems Monitors Prison Workers Safety Equipment
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20054736
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2019-100567
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R43-OH-010008, 2015 Mar; :1-15
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr. Eric Richards, Principal Investigator, The Q-Track Corporation, 2223 Drake Ave., Huntsville, AL 35805
• Email:
  e.richards@q-track.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Public Safety
• Performing Organization:
  Q-Track Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20180831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e218d90f5638edb4f875a158e23d37e86625f200e51f3c5bf678d85e98964716899f14aaa2c109d82f06f3521869a5abb27cd5c2dfead229aef2aaf01863735a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218822/cdc_218822_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 380.72 KB ]