What we do and why

Working in the marine industry exposes a person to a number of identified risks not normally present in other places of employment, especially extreme weather and unsteady working platforms.

Numerous factors, often relating to fatigue, equipment use or failure, vessel hazards or collisions, can lead to injuries and even loss of life. However, the single largest cause of marine fatalities, despite safety routines and operating procedures, is man overboard. (NMSC: 2005-6, 2009)

Crew follow well documented procedures to recover a man overboard when the event has been witnessed, but the real challenge has always been two-fold; 1) how to notify captain or crew to a fall overboard that has not been witnessed, and 2) how to track the victim in the water.

Mobilarm was founded in 2003 with the goal of creating a technology-based response to those two challenges. It has since developed leading-edge crew location monitoring and alerting systems that automatically detect a man overboard event, notify captain, crew and other rescue assets and provide the essential tracking data to locate the victim as quickly as possible.

Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, Mobilarm (ASX: MBO) is now one of the world’s leading brands in the rapidly growing man overboard product category. The company’s marine safety equipment solutions are used aboard vessels and in other marine facilities in the offshore oil and gas, defence and commercial marine industries worldwide, where regulatory compliance and Occupational Health & Safety are the major drivers for improved employee safety and Duty of Care.

Mobilarm has received enviable recognition for its products and design, winning two Seatrade awards for Safety, two Australian Design Awards and the Western Australia Worksafe Award.

Our Technology

Time in the water is critical to a person's chances of survival, so the sooner a man overboard victim is recovered, the more likely they are to survive.

Mobilarm’s patent pending emergency radio distress beacons utilise Very High Frequency (VHF) radio, space-based AIS satellites and the Global Positioning System (GPS) to automatically alert others to a man overboard event. These alerts integrate with ship and/or shore-based GPS and navigation systems to provide in-water tracking of man overboard casualties in the water.

By alerting the people in the best position to carry out the rescue - those aboard the victim's vessel - directly and without delay, a rescue team can be deployed almost immediately, minimising the time the victim spends in the water and reducing the likelihood of a fatality.

Our Vision

Mobilarm is the world’s leading brand in offshore safety solutions.

Our vision will be achieved when leading global offshore energy, commercial marine and defence organisations turn to us to keep their personnel and assets safe.