Vygard Forestry

Vygard Forestry is the lone-worker safety platform built for chainsaw operators, tree surgeons and forestry contractors working alone in the woods. CHAINSAW KICKBACK AUTO-DETECT (Apple Watch) Turn on Chainsaw Mode and your Apple Watch listens for the chainsaw vibration signature, then watches for the violent jerk a kickback produces. If you don't dismiss the 3-second haptic alert, Vygard fires the full SOS escalation cascade — push, SMS, WhatsApp, voice — to your duty manager, ARC partner, and the nearest available responder ranked by distance and role. Works two ways: • PAIRED MODE — Apple Watch + Vygard Forestry iPhone app. Watch sends events via the phone, phone routes to dispatch. Watch face shows who's signed in, shift state, and inbound alerts. • STANDALONE MODE — cellular Apple Watch posts directly to the Vygard API when your phone is out of range. Solo crews working a remote felling site can leave the phone in the truck. FORESTRY-SPECIFIC SAFETY • Pre-shift toolbox talk acknowledgements • Chainsaw + brush-cutter + climbing + chipper PPE checks • What3words location every check-in • Buddy map across crews on the same job • HSE-ready audit log, HMAC-signed for tribunal evidence DISPATCHER + DUTY MANAGER • Live worker map with cell-tower fallback when GPS drops • AI-ranked nearest responder dispatch on every SOS • Multi-channel cascade (push → SMS → WhatsApp → voice) with ack tracking • 14-day free trial, no card required to start STANDARDS • BS 8484 (Lone Worker Devices) • FISA 304 (Lone Working in Forestry) • HSE INDG73 (Working alone) • GDPR / UK DPA compliant AVAILABLE TO ANY FORESTRY BUSINESS Vygard Forestry is a commercial subscription service open to any forestry, arboriculture or land-management business — not a single company. Start a free 14-day trial at https://vygard.com/sectors/forestry: self-serve, no card required, no invitation needed. Once your business has an account you sign in here and add your lone workers. Subscriptions are billed online per worker — there are no in-app purchases. SUPPORT hello@vygard.com — UK support 9-5 Mon-Fri, on-call escalation 24/7 for paying customers.