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GetHomeSafe sells check-ins, location tracking and SOS alerting to organisations with staff working alone, and logs close to 500,000 trips home a year.
Somewhere in New Zealand this week, a field worker will finish a shift alone and tap a button to say they are safe. If they don’t tap it, someone else is notified. That second part is the product.
GetHomeSafe, a Dunedin company, sells a workplace safety platform built around that idea: automated check-ins, real-time location tracking, journey management and SOS alerting. It targets organisations with lone, remote, and field workers — people whose employer has a duty of care but cannot see them for most of the day.
The worker side is a mobile app. A worker starts an activity, and the platform watches for the check-in that should end it. Location is visible only while an activity is running; the platform does not track the team in the background. That distinction matters to any organisation weighing a safety tool against the suspicion of surveillance, and it can decide whether staff actually use it.
On the supervisor side, the platform supports team scheduling and monitoring, so a manager can see who is out, where, and whether they have checked back in. For the organisation, there is reporting and compliance. GetHomeSafe offers hardware and an app, and lists compatible devices alongside its product features.
Use cases are grouped by problem and by industry. The problem list covers lone workers, dynamic risk assessment, journey management, out-of-coverage and satellite-to-mobile, plus personal lifestyle safety. The industry list covers enterprise, healthcare and community, land and environment, not-for-profit, primary sector, resources, transport and utilities. A partner directory sits alongside it, suggesting the platform is sold both directly and through others.
More than 500 safety leaders use GetHomeSafe, a figure it reports across Australia and New Zealand and, separately, worldwide. Its addressable markets are New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the UK and the US, and the site runs country selection for all five.
The platform tracks and helps people get home safely, with an annualised rate of almost 500,000 trips. That is the number worth holding on to: it measures how often the system is actually in use, not how many licences were sold.
Punakaiki Fund holds 21.0% of the company, having first invested in December 2020. The fund describes GetHomeSafe as a people-first safety solution focused on ease of use and engagement, and as increasingly dominant in New Zealand while serving clients worldwide, including a Fortune 500 company.
Boyd Peacock founded the business, and it has been running since 2012. Dunedin remains the base: the company’s address is in central Dunedin.
A dozen years is a long time in workplace software, and the product reflects that. The platform has accumulated the parts a safety manager asks for in sequence — the check-in first, then location, then journey planning, then the reporting that turns all of it into something an auditor will accept. Satellite-to-mobile sits at the newer end, aimed at workers who are genuinely beyond coverage rather than merely off site.
Health and safety law puts the obligation on the organisation, not the worker. For a business with staff driving between jobs, inspecting remote assets or working alone in a client’s building, the hard part is demonstrating that it knew where those people were and would notice if something went wrong. A paper sign-out sheet does not do it.
This is where the reporting layer earns its place. Check-in records, activity histories and escalation events become evidence that a system was in place and being used. The platform frames this as a duty of care, and that is the language a safety leader uses with a board.
Buying starts with a 20-minute walkthrough of the worker app, dashboard, check-ins, alerts and escalation workflows, shaped around how a team works. Demos run on Zoom by default, though the company will use whatever platform a customer prefers, and an automated note-taker sends a written summary afterwards. For more than two or three attendees, there is a short call beforehand to decide what to show.
A free 2026 lone worker safety checklist offers an alternative entry point for organisations that want to look before they talk. The knowledge base, trust centre, and customer profiles support due diligence. Pricing is quoted by country.
Lone worker safety is not a new category, and the alternatives are familiar: a duress alarm, a phone-based check-in rota run on spreadsheets, or one of the international platforms. GetHomeSafe’s argument rests on breadth — app, hardware, scheduling, escalation and reporting in one system — and on the fact that it is built and supported in the same time zone as a large part of its market.
The satellite-to-mobile capability is the clearest answer to the objection that phone-based safety fails exactly where it is most needed. For primary sector, resources, land, and environment customers, that is not a nice-to-have.
Growth has been steady rather than sudden: five countries, a Fortune 500 client, half a million trips a year and a fund manager holding a fifth of the company. The obvious next move is to deepen its presence in the markets it has already entered, particularly Australia, where the same safety obligations apply under different legislation.
For a Dunedin software company, that path is familiar and difficult. GetHomeSafe has the advantage of a product customers use every shift rather than once a year, and a metric — trips home — that measures what it is actually for.
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