The one hazard mining hasn’t engineered out.
A FIFO parent is away for weeks while their child’s online life carries on. Grooming, sextortion and bullying happen in messages nobody else can see, and everything the industry funds arrives after the harm is done. Guardii is the prevention layer: for the worker, for their family, funded by an employer that structurally cannot look inside it.
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 own 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 condition of continued employment
Off by default and clearly disclosed. After an incident and a warning, an employer can make Guardii a condition of ongoing employment. The worker keeps full privacy, and the app prompts them to reconsider misconduct before anything sends. Remediation, not surveillance.
A control, never a file
Message content never touches company systems: cryptographically guaranteed, nothing to discover. What Guardii documents is prevention itself: warnings given, controls applied, harm stopped early. Under a duty to prevent, that is the record an operator wants to hold.
Every number on this page is a lagging indicator. Guardii is a leading one.
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 detected as they form, with the alert reaching the parent 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.
Safety and surveillance are not the same thing
One watches people. The other watches for harm. Most tools sold into this category blur that line, and every time one does, it makes the people it was meant to protect less safe, because they route around it. Guardii is built so the distinction holds under pressure.
Patterns, not transcripts
Detection reports the shape of a conversation — sustained targeting, escalation, coercion — not its contents. You are told what is happening and how serious it is. You are not handed a feed of what was said.
Nobody reads it, including us
Content is committed in a form we cannot browse or mine. We hold the integrity of the record rather than access to it, which is what lets the same system protect a person and preserve evidence without reading either.
The person protected knows it is there
Guardii is not installed behind someone’s back. A child, a student or a worker is told what is covered. Protection people discover rather than consent to is the thing that destroys trust, and trust is what makes them keep talking.
The subject is the client
Alerts serve the person at risk and the adult responsible for them. Where an organisation pays, it receives what it needs to run the programme, never a window into somebody’s private life.
Least data, shortest path
We take the minimum required to detect the harm, and we do not repurpose it. No profiling for advertising, no resale, no secondary use dressed up as product improvement.
This is a design constraint rather than a policy preference. A system that cannot read what it protects cannot be quietly repurposed into one that does, by us or by anyone who acquires us.
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 applied to an individual after an incident and a warning, not 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, which is cryptographically guaranteed and leaves nothing to discover. What Guardii documents is prevention itself: warnings given, controls applied, harm stopped early. 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 operates internationally and is deployed with organisations and authorities across multiple regions. 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.