Life at the Scene: Your Emergency QR, and Who Scanned It

Meritus carries two QR codes, and by design they never cross. One, the shield, is for the foreman: scan it, verify your tickets in three seconds. The other, the medical cross, is for a paramedic, if you’re ever face-down on a job site and can’t speak for yourself.

That second code is the emergency profile, and it’s entirely yours.

What’s behind it:

• •Blood type, allergies, medications, and medical conditions
• •An emergency contact (ICE) with one-tap click-to-call
• •Nothing else, no credentials, no employer data, no identifiers a stranger could exploit

It’s off by default, and you control everything. Enable it, disable it, rotate the token any time. The credential QR never sees a byte of your medical data, and the emergency QR never sees your tickets. Two codes, two symbols, two purposes.

New: see who scanned it. Until now, every scan of your emergency profile showed up in your dashboard as an anonymous "Unidentified scanner." Now, after the medical info loads, never before it, because nothing should ever delay care, a responder can optionally tell you who they are: a role (paramedic, firefighter, police, coworker), their name, and their organization. You’ll also see a coarse location (city/region) of where the scan happened.

So instead of "scanned 19 times, unidentified," your log reads "Paramedic · Jane Doe, BC Ambulance Service, near Kamloops, BC." If your QR ever gets scanned and you don’t know why, you’ll know.

Privacy, kept: the responder’s self-identification is optional and never gates the medical data. We store a coarse location only, the raw IP is hashed, never kept in the clear. And every scan, identified or not, is written to a tamper-proof hash-chain ledger you can see in your dashboard.

Emergencies don’t check what trade you’re in. Whether you swing a hammer, run a server room, or drive a rig, this is built for you. Set up your emergency profile in your dashboard under Safety.