Walking Home Alone: Safety Tips
Walking home alone, particularly at night, can carry many risks, especially for women. So, this week here at First2HelpYou we thought we would give you our walking home alone safety tips.
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Lone Working Risks in Summer
Lone working risks in summer do increase as the mercury rises. According to reports by the Met Office, June was the hottest month since records began and if this summer is anything at all like last year there will be at least a few days of heatwaves. Fantastic news if you are in the garden or on holiday, but maybe not so fantastic if you are at work!
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Lone Working Risk and The Law
Is it against the law to work alone or is the lone working risk too high? Our posts today discusses the law and lone working, reducing the risks and how to stay clear of falling on the wrong side of the law.
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Festival Season Safety Tips From First2HelpYou
Okay so Festival Season is already well underway, we’ve had Radio One Big Weekend in Middlesbrough, Parklife in Manchester and Glorious Glastonbury will soon be upon us at Worthy Farm.
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Looking After Lone Workers with Medical Conditions
Looking after the wellbeing of staff who regularly work alone is an issue employers’ need to consider; looking after Lone Workers with medical conditions needs even greater attention and simply cannot be left to chance that ‘everything will be fine’.
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Safety and Security Round-Up May 2019
As spring is now well underway, and we move rapidly towards the summer months, it is easy to become complacent around health and safety and forget about some of the less obvious dangers associated with lone working.
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Lone Worker Advice: Relying on Gut Instinct
Relying on our gut instinct is something many of us find difficult, you know, that instinctive feeling that we should or sometimes more importantly, shouldn’t, put ourselves in to a situation that may prove challenging in the extreme!
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Lone Workers in The NHS
Lone Workers are becoming more and more recognised as an essential and effective part of the workforce here in the U.K, they are also recognised as some of the most vulnerable employees in society, and lone workers in the NHS are no different.
From porters to surgeons, and from reception staff to high level trustee members on the board, many thousands of people spend some, if not all of their time working alone within the NHS.
So, who are these employees, what are the risks, and how do we protect them?
Here in this week’s blog, we are going to examine lone workers in the NHS in more detail.
Want to find out more? Read on!
World Day for Health & Safety At Work: Spotlight on Lone Working
World Day for Health & Safety At Work: Spotlight on Lone Working