Protect FIFO workers and the families they leave at home.
A FIFO parent is away for weeks while their child’s online life carries on. Guardii runs on the child’s phone and the worker’s, spots grooming, sextortion, bullying and harassment, and warns them first. You fund it, and you only see what a worker chooses to report.
backedDistance is a roster problem and a safety problem at once
Tens of thousands of Western Australians work fly-in fly-out. A parent on a 2/1 roster is absent from their child’s online life for weeks at a stretch, and the harm does not wait for R&R.
The same distance that strains families shows up in the workforce data.
FIFO workers reporting high or very high psychological distress on the K10, against a matched non-FIFO comparison group. The Australian population figure in the same study is 10%.
WA Mental Health Commission and Curtin University, n=3,108 FIFO workers, fieldwork 2017-18the suicide rate among male mining workers relative to other workers across 2012 to 2019, on 19 years of coronial data. The elevation is recent: across 2001 to 2011 mining sat below the comparison groups.
King, Maheen, Taouk and LaMontagne, Safety and Health at Work, 2023 (95% CI 1.24 to 1.70)FIFO workers scored significantly worse than the comparison group on burnout, on sleep quality, and on both experiencing and witnessing bullying. Scores on thwarted belonging were also worse, though the study notes that difference does not hold once sample composition is controlled for.
WA Mental Health Commission and Curtin UniversityThe most expensive claim type you can generate
Psychosocial injury sits at the top of the workers compensation data on cost and on time lost, and it is growing faster than any other category.
Median compensation per serious claim
4xMedian weeks off work
5xgrowth in serious mental health claims over the past decade, the largest of any injury category.
serious mental health claims in 2023-24, 12% of all serious claims, up 14.7% in one year.
of mental stress claims name harassment or workplace bullying as the mechanism.
All figures: Safe Work Australia, Key Work Health and Safety Statistics Australia 2025, using preliminary 2023-24 workers compensation data. These are all-cause figures. The claims taxonomy does not separate online from in-person conduct, so treat them as the cost of the hazard rather than as an online-specific number. Source.
Premiums are experience-rated, and the majors self-insure. Every claim prevented in the moment is a direct saving off your balance sheet, and prevention is the only lever that moves claims and premiums together.
The duty has moved. Under WHS psychosocial regulations and the positive duty, you are now required to prevent these injuries, not just respond to them.
What the system does, and what it refuses to do
Early signal, routed to care
A worker at risk of harming themselves surfaces early and privately, to a person they chose. Never an employer file. Never police. Distress is not a crime, and the system is built so it is never treated as one.
After a warning: a remediation the worker agrees to
Off by default and clearly disclosed. After an incident and a warning, it can be offered as part of a remediation plan the worker agrees to. The worker keeps full privacy, and the app prompts them to reconsider before anything sends. Remediation, not surveillance.
A control, never a file
Message content never touches company systems, so there is nothing for the company to hold or be asked to produce. What the operator holds is a count of prevention: people protected, warnings given, reports made. Under a duty to prevent, that is the record an operator wants to hold.
Every number on this page counts harm after it happened. Guardii warns while it is still building.
Every other benefit stops at the worker
Health cover, EAP and wellbeing apps all treat the employee as the unit. The thing keeping a parent awake in camp is happening to their child, in a group chat, on a phone. Guardii covers the household: cyberbullying, grooming, sextortion and distress signals noticed on the child’s phone as they form, the child told first and the parent alerted wherever they are. A conversation tonight, not a discovery too late. Children keep their privacy on everything benign, and no employer ever sees a child, a platform or a family situation.
→ What families receiveHow it runs
You fund the seats
Guardii is added to your package as a funded or subsidised entitlement, covering the worker and their household rather than being priced per child.
Workers opt in privately
Your people redeem it directly with us and choose what it covers. Nothing about that choice is visible to a supervisor or a site manager.
You see uptake, never families
HR receives seat utilisation and aggregate reporting for renewal. No alert about a worker’s family, and no child, is ever visible to an employer.
Private by design.
Uptake depends on trust. Guardii does not monitor the people it protects.
Messages stay on the device
Detection runs on the device. Guardii never receives messages, so there is nothing to access or browse.
Opt-in and disclosed
No one is covered without knowing. Each person chooses which accounts are covered and who is alerted.
Alerts, not transcripts
Only an alert, or evidence the person chooses to send, leaves the device. Never a message feed.
Set up with your team. Reports land in your systems.
Our engineers work alongside your operation to set who hears what, and when, around how you already work. Reports arrive in the tools your people already use.
Your AI agents
Reports arrive through a secure connection your AI tools can query with your credentials, so they can help with the casework.
Your systems
Or straight into the case management, HR and reporting systems you already run, so a report lands where your people already work.
You see only the reports people send. There is no search across everyone, and every time a report is opened, it is logged.
Your roles become the access rules
Who is told what, at what threshold, and who is never told, set with you before anything goes live.
Your policy, versioned
Who hears what, and when, follows your policy and your local law. Every change is recorded and can be rolled back.
In your region
Deployed in the region whose rules apply to you, with records held there.
Set up with you
A working session with your team, then a small pilot. Our engineers work alongside yours while it is set up.
What operators ask
Our workforce is remote and offline for stretches. Does detection still work?
Assessment runs on the device, so it continues while a handset is out of coverage, and alerts sync once connectivity returns. Camp and site connectivity varies a great deal, so we walk through your actual coverage and roster pattern during scoping and tell you plainly what the delay looks like on your sites rather than quoting a general number here.
Is the post-incident setting employee surveillance?
It is off by default and clearly disclosed. It is offered to an individual after an incident and a warning, as part of a remediation plan they agree to, never across a workforce. The worker keeps full privacy, the employer sees nothing of what is said, and what the setting does is prompt the sender to reconsider before anything sends. It is a remediation control.
Will this generate records that get used against us?
Message content never touches company systems, so there is nothing for the company to hold or be asked to produce. What the operator holds is a count of prevention: people protected, warnings given, reports made. Under a duty to prevent, that is the record an operator wants to hold.
How does this interact with our EAP and MATES-style programs?
They complement each other. Those programs support a person who already knows there is a problem and has decided to reach out. Guardii is the detection layer that surfaces the problem early, and a worker or parent who has just been alerted is exactly the person those programs should be supporting.
How is it priced?
Per worker rather than per child or per account, so a parent with three children costs the same as a parent with one. We scope against headcount, roster pattern and expected uptake, and we can run it fully funded, subsidised, or as a discounted voluntary offering.
Can we see which of our people are using it?
You see aggregate utilisation so you can judge whether the benefit is worth renewing. You do not see alerts, children, platforms, conversations or anything that would tell you what is happening inside a worker’s family. That separation is why people trust it enough to use it, so it is not something we relax on request.
Does it work for workers outside Australia?
Guardii is built to be deployed in the region whose rules apply. Coverage and the applicable privacy and safety regime vary by country, so we confirm the specifics for your workforce footprint during scoping rather than assuming it.
This page summarises publicly available Australian regulatory material and is general information rather than legal advice. Obligations differ by jurisdiction and by the nature of your operation.