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About 100,000 NHS staff work as lone professionals, and 40,000 have been given lone worker alarms that alert a call centre in case of abuse, which can then record through the alarm's microphone and call the police if necessary.
Six out 10 nurses who visit patients in homes verbally abused in past two years 2012
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Having experienced this myself, it's the alarm's fault.
James Frey: Turkeys, Traditions and Families On The Fabulous Beekman Boys Farm 2010
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Having experienced this myself, it's the alarm's fault.
James Frey: Turkeys, Traditions and Families On The Fabulous Beekman Boys Farm 2010
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Don't worry: any intense emotional response will cause the alarm's emergency lights to come on automatically.
Greg Gutfeld: New Huffington Post ALARM SYSTEM for Alarming Posts! 2008
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I got to slide down (a segment of) the fire pole, and see the mechanism of a fire alarm (a very simple spring-powered clockwork to send out the alarm's location code).
9/9/06: A day worth blogging about deedop 2006
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I don't even DREAM about waking up until about 10 hours later, when my alarm's whiny beeping invades my subconscious until I throw it at something.
bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005
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My alarm was inadvertently set to a country music station, so I stumbled around for 15 minutes listening to the lyrical nasality of some lady trying to drown out the underscore of my alarm's telltale * BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP.
luvabeans Diary Entry luvabeans 2003
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The alarm's quiet tone woke him at two thirty and he lay there, listening to the night.
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"Guess the alarm's not switched on, huh, Spammy," he whispered, shooting him an attempt at a chastising glare.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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The poster board had two columns on it showing the record of the house alarm's engagement and the usage of the door between the house and the garage.
A Darkness More Than Night Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2000
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