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Are You Sitting Comfortably?
With no time for planning, many of us of have been thrown into home working and may well have ended up in less than ideal positions. Whatever your home office (or corner of the kitchen, sofa, garden chair, etc) looks like, it is important in these challenging times to make sure that we don’t create extra stress and strains on our bodies. Ed Milnes one of our expert speakers, shares his advice (after all ergonomics is his thing) on how to work and stay well in these challenging times.
Advice for those who are new to home working
In these uncertain times, so many more of us are now working from home and for the uninitiated this can be a real shock to the system. The responsibility to manage workers’ health, safety and wellbeing has not gone away. But where businesses do not have processes already in place, it may also be difficult for managers to ensure that they keep their remote workers safe, engaged and productive. Find Guidance here to help you through these challenges.
Early Bird Registration Now Open
Lone Worker Safety Live 2020 is officially launched! We are really proud of new branding and hope you love it too. Alongside our shiny new website, we are thrilled to announce that Lord's The Home of Cricket will be our new home for 2020. It's an iconic venue with...
Another Successful LWSE Event!
Safety, Security and Wellbeing: All key issues for lone workers This year’s Lone Worker Safety Expo conference was held at the historic King’s Fund building in Central London. Kristen Gasser was there to join in the day’s activities. The 2019 Lone Worker Safety...
Keeping sexual harassment out of the workplace
Sexual harassment can affect anyone in the workplace, however lone workers may, by the very nature of being alone, be more at risk from both an incident occurring in the first place and the impact that an incident can have (physically and psychologically). George...
The Business Benefits of Safe and Happy Lone Workers
Rather than purely concentrating on the risks to lone workers, we feel it is important to recognise (and reap) the business benefits of safe and happy lone workers. This article from Mathew Colley, Sales & Marketing Manager, at LONEALERT extols some of the...
Challenges of Implementing Lone Worker Safety Solutions
Many organisations today, utilise lone worker safety solutions in the form of devices or apps to help them support and keep in touch with their lone workers. These can be especially useful when workers are out and about in the community, travelling or visiting...
Mobile Devices: a risk to mobile workers?
After 25 years in this job, I thought I had a good understanding of the key risks that are faced by lone workers. Violence, aggression, medical emergencies, harassment, falls, stress, isolation… Then I was introduced to Ed Milnes and in a quick five-minute...
Travelling alone brings additional risks for workers: so who is ensuring their safety overseas?
Whatever the job role in whatever industry, lone working presents its own particular risks. But when overseas travel or trips to unfamiliar locations are thrown into the mix, the list of potential hazards skyrockets. Political instability, terrorism and kidnap...
A day in the life of a lone worker…
What does a day the in the life of a lone worker look like exactly? Well how long have you got for us to explain? The challenge is there is no such thing as a typical lone worker. They may be someone working totally alone, travelling out and about in the community,...