Our passion for worker safety spans over 20 years

The SafetyLine Lone Worker story

In 1999, BC entrepreneur Thomas Touhey was contacted by one of his previous clients, who needed help with a significant problem. This client was BC Gas (now Fortis BC Energy Inc.) and the major utility was struggling to ensure the safety of their many workers out in the field by themselves, often in vulnerable situations. Tom was a passionate believer that innovation and technology had the power to solve major, real-world problems. After he was approached, he immediately recognized not only a serious need to protect these people in the energy industry and beyond, but he also saw an opportunity to start a company that would help protect lone and remote workers everywhere, so that they could return to safely to their families at the end of the day.

This was the birth of Tsunami Solutions and its signature SafetyLine lone worker app, which, over the decades since, has helped protect hundreds of thousands of workers in all industries and across several countries around the globe. For more than 20 years, SafetyLine has led the way for the lone worker safety sector, evolving and innovating with the changing world, and the dynamic, sometimes unpredictable work environments that come with it.

Every hour of every 365 days, SafetyLine is available to monitor workers no matter where they are located and what circumstances they are in. SafetyLine provides lone worker safety to more than 50,000 workers in Canada, the USA, as well as internationally.