Are You Protecting Your Lone Workers?

What do laboratory science, HVAC maintenance, longshoring, and door-to-door sales have in common? They are all lines of work that require employees to be on their own for long periods of time in potentially dangerous settings. Lone workers are not limited to these industries, either; security guards, drivers, repairmen, and employees in a variety of other fields also frequently find themselves alone and at risk.

More so than workers who do hazardous jobs side-by-side with colleagues, lone workers are at a particularly high risk of severe injury or death simply because no one else is around to help them in the event of an accident. That’s why safeguards beyond those found in the typical workplace must be instituted to protect them. While the start-up costs of new safety measures may seem difficult to justify, it’s actually far more expensive not to have them in place.

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