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.