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HSE Bulletin 019 - Lone Working

This safety bulletin addresses the risks associated with lone working, emphasizing the increased hazards faced by individuals working alone without supervision. It outlines various hazards, risks, and contributing factors, such as limited communication and potential emergencies, while providing recommendations for safety measures, including the development of a Lone Working Policy and regular supervision. The document also stresses the importance of ensuring that lone workers have the necessary training, communication devices, and emergency protocols in place.

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HSE Bulletin 019 - Lone Working

This safety bulletin addresses the risks associated with lone working, emphasizing the increased hazards faced by individuals working alone without supervision. It outlines various hazards, risks, and contributing factors, such as limited communication and potential emergencies, while providing recommendations for safety measures, including the development of a Lone Working Policy and regular supervision. The document also stresses the importance of ensuring that lone workers have the necessary training, communication devices, and emergency protocols in place.

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AL SHAFAR UNITED LLC

SAFETY BULLETIN
Lone Working Date: 14/07/2021
The purpose of this safety bulletin is to highlight the dangers associated with lone working and suggest possible control
measures. Lone workers are those who work by themselves without close or direct supervision face distinct hazards and risks
that may require a tailored approach.

Lone workers may be facing similar hazards to others, but the fact they are alone is likely to increas e the risks. If someone
become injured, trapped, or unconscious when working alone and are not able to call for help, it may be some time before
anyone finds out he/she is in trouble or where he/she is located. This delay in getting help or treatment can c ause an injury
to become more serious, even deadly.

Hazards, Risks and Contributing Factors


• Working in remote locations or locations with limited access.
• Limited or No Mobile phone coverage.
• Spills, cables and other tripping hazards
• Working at height such as ladders, scaffolding and roofing
• Heavy lifting, repetitive movements and vibrations
• Existing medical conditions, age, inexperienced, etc.
• Loneliness and Mental Wellbeing.
• Working with electricity, chemicals and other harmful substances.
• Working in extreme temperatures or weather conditions.
• The level of expertise and/or support required to perform the task safely.
• Working with valuable equipment or money which may leads to theft.
• Might encounter incidents or emergencies at work, sudden illness, or physical violence.
• Overworking and the inability to ensure employees are taking regular breaks, water, and food.
• Delay in Emergency services response time and no access to adequate first aid and welfare facilities.

Guidance and Recommendation


• Develop and implement a Lone Working Policy and procedure.
• Eliminate the need for lone working and ensure that at least two people are available at any one time.
• Identify staff who work alone and the risks they face and also confirm that the work can be done safely by one person on
their own.
• Reduce the amount of time that a person has to spend working alone.
• Managing stress and mental health in lone working with regular breaks.
• Provide periodic supervision whereb y a second person visits the site at regular intervals.
• A check that a lone worker has returned to their base or home on completion of a task.
• If possible, ensure that the person is protected by restricting the areas he/she works in, therefore isolating his/her
exposure to potential risks.
• Provided with appropriate information, instruction, and training, e.g., code words for potentially violent situations.
• Issue lone workers with suitable communication devices (i.e. radios and mobile phones).
• Provide an emergency panic alarm within the workplace for the lone worker which is directed to the emergency ser vices.
• Implement a lone worker monitoring system that are linked to an external monitoring process , e.g. systems for security
staff.
• Ensure all personnel are aware that they can stop the job when unsafe acts or conditions are observed.

Method for confirming that action have been taken


Briefing this bulletin to be retained locally with project/site records and share it with your sub -contractor and ask them to
share it with their workers.

Original Source (Internal & External)


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alway s ch eck th e le g isl at ion r eferr ed to i n th is mat eri al an d ma ke your ow n j ud ge men t a bou t wh at act ion yo u ma y ne ed to t a ke to e n s ure yo u have compl ie d wi th th e l aw . Accordin gly, A S U e xt en d s no w arra nt ie s a s to t he su it a bili ty of th e i nfor matio n
for your s peci fic c ircu msta nce s.

Doc No: ASU/HSE-B/019


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