Lone worker hazard

To enable both company and contractor to comply with their specific responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974, a Lone Workers policy, supported by a method of assessment of potential hazards relating to the work to be carried out, should be prepared. Such a system would prove beneficial when, for any reason, the regular lone worker cannot be found. 

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These will include assessment of the work to consider the likelihood of injury and the possible consequences to the lone worker. Where hazardous substances, live electrical work, work at height or near water may be involved, lone working should normally be avoided. 

Levels of training and experience for lone workers will include full understanding of the work, hazards, emergency procedures and the limits of the work which have been authorised and the limits on the use of their own initiative. 

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Description of hazard. Working alone can be more hazardous than performing the same job when other people are present. A lone worker is defined as an employee who performs an activity that is intended to be carried out in isolation from other workers, without close or direct supervision. Such staff may be exposed to risk because there is no one to assist them should they be injured. If a lone worker is injured or an emergency occurs, the worker won t have access to help if no one is within shouting distance. If the worker is rendered unconscious, it may be hours before help arrives, and by then it may be too late. 

Jeanne SteUman was one of the few occupational health researchers in this period to be interested in the idea that the office could be hazardous to workers health. At conferences and meetings held by the feminist office workers movement, Stellman was often the lone speaker on occupational health. In 1978 Stellman founded the Women s Occupational Health Resource Center in Brooklyn, New York, which served as a clearinghouse for information on women s occupational health issues and for a time became the center of feminist occupational-health efforts. Between 1981 and 1983 the resource center held training sessions for over four thousand workers, published a newsletter, and... 

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