Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) shed a sobering light on the issue of health and safety in the manufacturing industry. These statistics indicate that around 10% of the workplace fatalities that occur each year in Britain's workforce happen to employees in the manufacturing ...
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Lone Workers,
Manufacturing Industry,
Health and Safety
Managers should always make lone worker safety one of their key priorities when formulating and implementing health and safety policies at work. Lone workers are subject to unique vulnerabilities that are directly tied to their lone worker status. This article explains some of the main way in which ...
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Lone Workers,
Manufacturing Industry,
Health and Safety,
Critical Alarm Management
From engineers servicing wind farms to workers employed in the soft drinks manufacturing industry, employees in many different sectors can find themselves at risk from toxic gases. Lone workers are at a particularly enhanced risk as they do not have the benefit of work colleagues on site with them ...
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Lone Workers,
ATEX
Let’s face it, no one wants to over complicate tasks and prolong them unnecessarily but often taking a simple, short-term approach can have long lasting consequences. Take for example, the task of finding a solution to protect staff working alone. A quick Google search could offer a range of ...
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Lone Workers,
Health and Safety
Statistics indicate that, after substantial downward trend over the long term, the number of fatalities in the workplace has started to level off, and is now beginning to rise. This article explains the challenges involved in ensuring lone worker safety in a variety of sectors, and then elucidates ...
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Topics:
Lone Workers,
Health and Safety
Does your company have a system in place for monitoring lone workers who are dealing with electrical equipment, and for aiding them immediately if they suffer an electrical accident? If not, it is time to put such a system in place, as it could save lives. When working alone, electrical maintenance ...
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Topics:
Lone Workers,
Manufacturing Industry
According to employment advisory service ACAS, around 14 percent of the working population (3.6 million people) report that they work shifts 'most of the time', and there is no doubt that shift work is very popular, having many advantages for both employers and employees. It is common for ...
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Lone Workers,
Health and Safety,
Hotels,
Distilleries
