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About Lone & Vulnerable Workers

What Are Lone And Isolated Workers?

A lone or isolated worker is anyone working in their normal role, without close support or supervision and in isolation from other employees. This relates to them working full time, part time or even on a casual basis. 

The lone worker is at greater risk, as generally they do not have anyone close by if they are threatened or face a serious safety concern. This is combined with the fact that the lone worker is often viewed as a more vulnerable, easy target. To try and mitigate this risk, organisations will often send employees out in pairs, which unfortunately can be inefficient, costly and may also place the second employee at risk.

Vulnerable Worker Safety Devices

The Type Of Work Which Can Be Of Concern Includes:

  • Staff visiting client homes (e.g., nurse care, mobile lenders etc.)
  • Environmental risky occupations (e.g., roofers, animal management workers etc.)
  • Council workers (e.g., vegetation control, parking inspectors, water resources)
  • Workers travelling remotely.
  • Retail face to face after-hours (e.g., convenience store or bottle shop staff)
  • Community Support workers (e.g., DFV staff, homeless support)
  • Remote mining and resources workers.

To overcome this risk, lone & vulnerable worker safety devices have been developed to provide both pro-active and re-active alerts that can provide location information, event status, together with one-way or two-way voice communication. These alerts can be either self-monitored or actioned by a 24/7 monitoring centre to provide heightened response. 

Additional benefits include welfare check-in capability as well as event updates and potential hazard event notifications. These include environmental dangers (e.g., fires or floods), or manmade threats (e.g., terrorism or on-site shooter)

Vulnerable Worker Safety Devices Sydney Australia

Creating a safe work environment is not just a legal requirement, it is also critical to the long-term success of your business and can:

  • Help you keep your staff.
  • Improve staff productivity.
  • Reduce injury and illness in the workplace.
  • Reduce the costs of injury and workers’ compensation.
In Australia, lone worker safety has been recognised as a legal responsibility under Section 3.3 of the Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (1996)

FAQ’s

Frequently asked questions include:

  1. Do I need a dedicated alert device or is a paired (Bluetooth) device more suitable?
  2. Why can’t I just rely on my staff calling 000?
  3. Do I need to have the alerts monitored remotely or can my team handle these?
  4. Can I use the technology overseas?
  5. What if my staff work beyond mobile coverage?
  6. Will I need 1-way or 2-way voice and can I change this for different situations?
  7. What if I need an ambulance or police, but am unable to talk?
  8. What if I am risking of falling while working at height?
  9. I am worried about the wellbeing of my staff working in isolation, how can I assist them?
  10. Are there privacy settings for staff after hours?
  11. Can I set safe and/or risk areas for my staff

 

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