From SOS Alerts to Escort Trips: WhistleDrive's Holistic Approach to Women's Safety

Mahatma Gandhi said, “The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence”.

Daily commuting is a reality for most Indians today, but women still struggle to find a secure mode of transportation that is beneficial for their use.

Travelling alone at odd hours is still not preferred by most women working professionals as it involves potential risks for them. Women usually resort to public transportation as an alternative but even then they have to face severe challenges in the form of harassment. According to a study by UN Women (2014), women who use public transport are at risk of sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence, including verbal harassment, extortion, inappropriate touching, indecent exposure, and rape. Out of these, only a handful of cases are reported and most of them go unnoticed.

To empower and encourage women working professionals, ensuring their safety and providing them with safe transportation services has become a necessity in today’s time. We at WhistleDrive have managed to implement stringent safety measures in our employee transportation solutions that aim to create a society where women can commute without having to fear.

?WhistleDrive tries to go the extra mile to ensure an employee’s safety. And when it's about a woman, their safety is our responsibility. We have implemented AI-powered features and services to ensure complete security and privacy.

Some of the key features that we at WhistleDrive provide to ensure employee safety and security are:

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SOS Alerts: In case of any emergencies, the employees can use the SOS feature to alert the admins with their location details and the live location will be shared with all the emergency contacts simultaneously.

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Location Sharing with Friends & Family: This feature enables a female employee to share their live location with someone trusted whenever they board a cab or bus. The employee only needs to install our mobile application to access the in-app location-sharing option. This feature will help the family members keep track of the vehicle in which the employee is travelling.

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Escort Trips: WhistleDrive has recently added this feature where an escort will be accompanying a woman, specifically on the first pick-ups and last drop-offs of the day to ensure her safety. This feature was made compulsory by the government of India so that safe travel for women can be guaranteed.

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IVR? Call Confirmation: With the help of an automated IVR call feature, we prioritize the safety of female employees commuting after normal hours, ensuring a secure drop-off every time.

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Features like number masking, real-time tracking and monitoring speed limit also add up to ensure employees' safety.

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Other than these features we at WhistleDrive also ensure that every vehicle is 100% compliant and is operating according to the terms of clients’ specific instructions with a 3-layer stringent onboarding practice in place. Our ground team makes sure that all the necessary documents are uploaded to the platform that will guide an employee about the required details of the cab and the driver. The admin and the supervisors monitor all documents & compliance reports including expired/soon-expiring documents from the dashboard so that the customer does not face any hassle while travelling. They are also capable of disabling trips to non-compliant vehicles and can blacklist non-compliant drivers at the same time.

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Hence, we at WhistleDrive are committed to creating a safe and secure travelling experience for all women employees so that they can travel with confidence and their journey is stress-free.