Lone Worker Personal Safety Responsibilities

Lone Worker Personal Safety and Employee Responsibilities Lone Worker Personal Safety – Under section 7 of Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, employees are required to take reasonable care for themselves and the people around them who may be affected by the things they do, or the things they fail to do.   The test […]

Personal Safety for Lone Workers

Should organisations prioritise personal safety for lone workers?   Employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees.  This act of parliament places a statutory duty on employers, besides their common law […]

Housing Officer Safety and Lone Working: Trust your intuition to Stay Safe

Housing Officer Safety and Lone Working: Trust your instincts Gavin DeBecker, in his seminal work on personal safety “The Gift of Fear” offers us a crucial and often overlooked perspective on taking control of our safety. His key point, illustrated again and again in his examples and case studies, is that when our innate survival […]

Keeping Lone Workers Safe: Information Sharing

In this rough-cut video clip from a recent Lone Worker Personal Safety Training programme, our Director of Training and Keeping Lone Workers Safe expert trainer Gerard O’Dea discusses one important case where a lone worker was seriously attacked by a person who had issued threats to her – but the information was never shared by […]

How to call for help as a lone worker

Great Lone Worker Safety Devices – are they compatible with the Human Operating System?   — Lone Worker Safety Devices have proliferated in lone worker safety management in the past decade, but are they really useful in the most crucial of moments? How do you call for help as a lone worker?   Our human survival […]

Care worker ʻnight of terrorʼ with patient ‘like a horror film’

Care Worker Protection With the clear direction imposed by Health and Safety statute and regulations, employers whose workplaces have risks of violence or aggression to staff are compelled to assess those risks, document the assessment process and its outcomes, create a policy and relevant procedures which detail risk-control measures which can include a wide variety of […]

National Personal Safety Day – Lone Working Book from Dynamis

Lone Working Personal Safety – A guidebook for health and social care workers will give you practical and largely unexplored personal safety advice which will inform and enhance how you make decisions. It will also widen the discussions you have within your team about how you as a group can improve your personal safety systems. […]