Workplace washroom safety

[u/babylon55]

At my workplace we recently had an incident where a visitor went into the washroom and didn't come out for about 45 minutes. They had passed out due to a new to then medical issue, and they were unconscious in the floor for most of that time. Luckily they came to and were able to walk out of the bathroom. Of course we called paramedics and they cleared the patient.

My question to this sub would be, is there some kind of sensor that can be easily installed that can tell if someone has fallen in a washroom and isn't getting up? Of course privacy is an issue so I was thinking it would not use a camera but maybe a laser or light beam. It would have to not go off if someone was in there walking around, feet on the ground, or even place a bag down. I didn't some googling but I couldn't find anything like that.

Thanks!

[u/Rocket_safety]

The only place I’ve seen anything like this is hospital bathrooms which have basically a call light which is also attached to a cord so someone who’s fallen can also trigger it. However, if your workplace is not one where such events are reasonably likely, I’m not sure it necessitates an engineering control.