What happens when one person is alone with someone dangerous: home visits, live-in care, night shifts, hostel work and lone security.
Each entry is built from the record of what happened: the inquest, the prosecution, the regulator’s notice or the employer’s own investigation. Every page says why the person was working alone, what the employer’s system did or did not do, and where the evidence stops.
If a case involved a crime in someone’s home rather than a lone worker at work, it is not on this shelf.
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A nurse in uniform struck with a stone on her way home
A Nigerian nurse was hit on the head by rioters while travelling home in her uniform, during disorder that also chased a colleague into her own hospital.
Nurse hit from behind with a metal bar at a hospital vending machine
A district nurse was struck on the head from behind while standing alone at a hospital vending machine, and survived by getting a door between herself and the…
Nurse stabbed three times from behind by a patient asking for medication
She asked him to wait. He got out of bed with a pair of scissors and attacked her from behind, at about half past ten at night.
A nurse was attacked at the end of a ward assessment
A psychiatric assessment has a defined end. The nurse who delivered the next dose at that point was on her own with the patient.
District nurse dragged from her car outside a patient’s flat
A nurse on a home visit was pulled out of her car by a man who had just smashed the window with a bottle. He then tried to…
Midwife pelted with eggs and flour on her way to a visit
A community midwife driving to see a pregnant patient was attacked through her car window by a group in the street.
Two improvement notices and a training need nobody could meet
The HSE served a west Wales health board with two improvement notices for violence and lone working, then found the training it required could not be delivered.
Mental health nurse slashed after the doctors left
Two doctors sectioned a man and left one nurse with him to wait for an ambulance. The wait was the most dangerous part of the visit.
Mental health nurse stabbed to death at a private community hospital
Patrick Clarke was killed by a patient on a ward with the unpredictability of a psychiatric unit and the staffing of a small step-down hospital.
Sent alone to a house where the violence was already known
A community psychiatric nurse with thirty years' experience was attacked from behind on a home visit. Her team had no risk assessment for the visit, no emergency system,…
Nurse held at knifepoint in a client’s home on a routine visit
A community psychiatric nurse on a routine lone visit had her bag, phone and car taken by a client with a knife, and was let out about half…
A community nurse attacked by the patient in her passenger seat
A learning disabilities nurse was driving a patient to the shops when the woman began punching her head and face. She could not stop the car and defend…
A nurse bitten on a home visit, with nobody to complain to
A community nurse was attacked by a dog in a patient's home. A nursing journal cites the case to show why bites behind a private front door go…
A nurse took a colleague, and the knife came from the street
The risk assessment was right and the visit still went wrong. The weapon came from a neighbour, not from the client.