[ Convenience & gas ]
Your late-night clerk is the safety plan. Give them better backup.
British Columbia’s Grant’s Law requires heightened safety measures for gas station and convenience store employees working alone overnight, and lets a timed-lock safe plus video surveillance stand in for a second employee. Vigil is built to be the surveillance half of that plan — reviewed, not just recorded.
[ Why now ]
Late-night retail carries the highest violence exposure.
[ Lone-worker safety ]
Surveillance that qualifies as the safeguard, not just a camera.
Under BC’s Grant’s Law, a timed-lock safe plus active video surveillance can stand in for a second overnight employee. Vigil keeps every overnight camera verified as online and covering the till, so that safeguard is real at 2 a.m., not just on paper.
See the platform overview[ Evidence ]
The same face, three stations down the highway.
Convenience and gas sites along a corridor are a common route for the same repeat offenders. Vigil re-identifies the same individual across visits and locations, linking incidents at separate stations into one case your loss-prevention team or police can act on.
See repeat-offender identification[ Regulatory alignment ]
Built for lone-worker overnight safety, not a fixed provincial camera mandate.
Unlike cannabis or liquor retail, convenience and gas has no single dedicated surveillance regulator — the clearest binding requirement is BC’s lone-worker safety law. Vigil is built to support that, and general loss-prevention practice, without overstating either as a national mandate.
| Requirement | Standard | How Vigil helps |
|---|---|---|
| Alternative safety measure for overnight lone workers | Grant’s Law (British Columbia) | Confirms overnight camera coverage of the till and entry points stays active, the condition the law relies on. |
| Recordings available for review after an incident | General loss-prevention and insurer practice, sector-wide | One-click export packages the requested window with a timestamped chain-of-custody record for police or insurance. |
| Cross-border data handling | PIPEDA / Quebec Law 25 | Canadian-incorporated, Canadian-hosted by default — not subject to the U.S. CLOUD Act. |
Source: Grant’s Law, British Columbia (in effect since 2008; amended 2012).
[ FAQ ]
Convenience & gas, answered
See your own overnight footage, reviewed live.
Bring a recent incident and we’ll show you how Vigil would have handled it.