As a manager within a manufacturing company, ensuring that you have a robust strategy in place in order to combat any accidents in the workplace is a top priority. This includes the tricky issue of lone worker safety, as lone workers are exposed to unique dangers that come from not having ...
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Manufacturing Industry
Guaranteeing the safety of lone workers is a top concern in every industry where employees carry out their duties off-site, in a remote corner in the plant, outside office hours, or anywhere else isolated from direct contact with colleagues and supervisors. Having effective and reliable monitoring ...
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Keeping your workers safe is one of the primary responsibilities of a manager and arguably the most important. You need to know that your work force is safe at all times no matter what they are doing. One of the most dangerous times facing any manager when it comes to health and safety is when big ...
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Manufacturing Industry,
Health and Safety
Managers who are in charge of health and safety need to take great care throughout the year. This is not just due to the annual audits by the HSE and other official bodies, but also because any injuries or accidents at work can make employers liable to pay large amounts of compensation. This ...
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Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical
In 2016 alone, 144 workers were killed as the result of a workplace injury (1). Some of these included those isolated from staff and other employees. The concept of health and safety of lone working is a very important topic and yet, many businesses fail to appreciate its impact. What measures can ...
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Lone Workers,
Manufacturing Industry,
Health and Safety
Manufacturing plants have accidents. Machines malfunction, employees get in disagreements, workers are negligent. These incidents occur all over the world, not just in dilapidated factories with little supervision in third world countries. They occur in Japan, in the United States, and closer to ...
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Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical
As a team manager, you have plenty on your plate. Lone worker safety might not currently be at the top of the list. Chances are, however, that it should be! Lone workers throughout your facility need to be a top priority when it comes to safety measures--and as a team manager, you're in the ideal ...
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