Lone Working Policy

Our company has a duty to ensure the safety, health and welfare of our workforce whilst at work. That duty extends to employees who travel during the course of their work and those who work away from our core premises.  

We do this by:

• Nominating senior staff members to consider the health, safety and welfare of lone workers. 
• Identifying situations where lone working is required which affect our employees.
• Making an assessment of the risks to members of our workforce who are or may become lone workers. 
• Developing and implementing control measures and procedures to ensure their health and safety whilst at work.
• Providing sufficient funding support to enable the development and implementation of procedures, risk assessments and control measures.
• Ensuring that procedures and control measures are in place for lone working situations. 
• Ensuring that identified equipment needs are met and training on their use is given. 
• Ensuring that the content of the procedures and risk assessments are made available to all staff.
• Providing and recording training.
• Monitoring and reviewing our systems; using our experience of operating these arrangements we aim to make improvements to the way we manage the risks from lone working.

The personnel responsible for the above measures are identified within the Responsibility Table of our Health and Safety Policy.