Getir on-demand delivery service starts test phase with CALIMA

Berlin-based startup CALIMA is developing a digital emergency system for companies that turns employees' smartphones into personal emergency signaling devices and offers manual and automatic ways to report emergencies. For example, CALIMA automatically detects employee falls and unconsciousness and informs internal company emergency contacts about the incident and the current location so that help can be provided effectively and quickly.

Since its market launch in June 2021, CALIMA has already equipped over 75 companies and 900 employees with its solution. CALIMA's customers have so far come from more traditional industries such as manufacturing, maintenance and care. As of now, the couriers of the food supplier Getir will use the technology in a one-month test phase. With this collaboration, CALIMA wants to support the modern delivery service in protecting its employees.

Katharina Hochmuth, co-founder of CALIMA, is delighted about the joint collaboration: "Our mission is to optimize occupational safety and health and make it more efficient through digital solutions. With CALIMA, Getir not only fulfills its duty of care and legal obligations, but also seizes the opportunity together with us to increase employee protection through digitalization."

Benjamin Konzag, Safety & Security Manager at Getir, explains: "The safety of our couriers is our top priority. We therefore equip our employees with high-quality e-bikes and mopeds as well as professional protective clothing. We conduct safety courses and test rides, accompanied by various other accident prevention and health and safety measures. At the same time, we are constantly working on the further development of our safety concept and, as a technology company, are always interested in modern, digital solutions. CALIMA is clearly the most intelligent emergency system and therefore just right for Getir."

The technical director and also co-founder of the company, Tim Hautkappe, also explains that the sensor components used in the smartphone have been tested millions of times and are increasingly being used in security-relevant areas. 

The one-month test phase is being financed by the Trade and Merchandise Logistics Employer's Liability Insurance Association (BGHW), which is responsible for Getir. "In our prevention work, we already have very good experience with classic emergency call solutions when working alone. Together with Getir, we now want to test whether such a new offer of an app-based emergency call solution can also work for couriers of fast delivery services," explains prevention expert Stefan Raßmann the background for this project initiated by BGHW. "The test deployment under realistic conditions," Raßmann continues, "can provide us with important findings that we can use to advise other companies with comparable hazard situations on their duty to quickly initiate emergency measures in the event of an emergency."

The test run with the pioneer for ultra-fast food deliveries may mark the beginning of the cooperation between the Berlin-based start-up for digital occupational safety CALIMA and Getir in Germany. In addition to Berlin, Getir's CALIMA emergency system will also be used at locations in Hamburg, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Munich and Nuremberg.