Safety without compromise.

An alarm strategy is the documented reasoning behind every gas detection setpoint and response in a facility, including which sensors are used, where they sit, what thresholds trigger an alarm, and what should happen when one fires. It lives in two formal documents: the Exposure Control Plan (ECP), for what people do, and the Sequence of Controls (SoC), for what equipment does automatically. It matters because a detection system only protects people if its alarms are both trustworthy and actionable. A well-defined alarm strategy reduces nuisance alarms and gives your facility a defensible foundation  for when WorkSafeBC asks you to justify setpoint decisions.

Operator Safe™ can accommodate all types of gas. It has been tested with gases most relevant to healthcare, recreational facilities, and parkades , including all common commercial refrigerants, carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), oxygen (O2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ammonia (NH3), and propane (C3H8). 

Yes. Operator Safe™ is hardware-agnostic and works with industrial-rated gas detection equipment from most manufacturers as long as there is a DDC/BMS output. It connects across common industry protocols, including BACnet, Modbus, and analog signals, and does not require a specific brand of controller or building automation system.

No. Operator can supply its own secure, encrypted cellular connection, so no integration with a facility’s IT network is required. If security requirements restrict use of external cellular networks, we use a hardwired ethernet connection to the building’s IT network. 

Operator Safe™ is built around WorkSafeBC OHS Regulation requirements. Calibration, testing, and alarm setpoint verification are captured in audit-ready reports, and continuous monitoring keeps a facility’s records current as conditions change so compliance is demonstrable at any time, not reconstructed after the fact.

Real-time monitoring distinguishes genuine alarm conditions from transient signals, and notifications are sent only when an alarm condition genuinely persists. This protects facility teams from alarm fatigue, so staff stay responsive to the alarms that matter.

The facility. Under WorkSafeBC, the duty of care rests with the employer and the Exposure Control Plan (ECP) is the facility’s responsibility to write and own Operator’s role is to make that easier: we provide the design, live data, calibration records, and audit-ready service documentation that feed the ECP and keep its underlying decisions defensible. The plan itself, and the response procedure inside it, remains owned by the facility at all times.

Most engagements begin with a consultation and a site assessment of a facility’s hazards, existing equipment, and compliance requirements. From there, Operator scopes the right combination of design, installation, and monitoring for that facility.

Operator Safe™ complements a BMS or PLC rather than replacing it. A BMS is built to run the building, including heating, ventilation, and equipment, and gas detection often ends up as one signal among many, buried in nested screens.  Operator Safe™ is dedicated to life safety: a standalone dashboard where alarms surface immediately, plus the alarm strategy, audit-ready records, and 24/7 response a BMS isn’t built to provide.