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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Shop worker shut an armed robber inside his own shop
Attacked at knifepoint on Christmas Eve, the worker left the store, pulled the shutter down and called police from the pavement.
A hotel worker followed from her night shift and killed at a station
She finished at eleven and walked to the station alone. The man who had been staring at her in reception all evening followed her onto the platform.
A lone engineer electrocuted after the check on him never happened
His method statement said he should ask a colleague to look in on him. He did not ask, the colleague was busy, and nobody owned the control.
Woman followed home from work fought him off with her keys
She was alone on a Sheffield street after midnight, followed for more than a mile. Her keys, her phone and two passers-by who heard her shout ended it.
A cashier alone at 4.50am held a knife at bay for half an hour
The panic button, the door locks and an open 999 line all worked. What took half an hour was the help.