Each day of the school week somewhere in England a teacher faces some form of abuse from a pupil. Assaults on teachers are now considered so common in some schools leading to lower reporting of incidents. According to statistics from the 2016/17 Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), teachers ...
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Lone Workers,
Schools,
Education,
Safety Management
An organisation looking to enhance the safety of its lone workers will find a range of products on the market. But which is most effective in providing protection for its workforce? This is not necessarily as straightforward as it might seem. The effective adoption of a lone working solution will ...
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Topics:
Lone Workers,
Health and Safety,
Safety Management
Hotels are large businesses with many different stakeholders and departments all overseeing and working in different parts of the site. Additionally, they have many guests. This means that a hotel has an extraordinarily large burden of responsibility to ensure not just the safety of its staff, but ...
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Lone Workers,
Hotels,
Safety Management,
Telecoms,
Critical Alarm Management
For many hospitals and commissioning groups, interaction between medical staff and other departments can be complicated by difficulties of several types. These types of communication in healthcare are technical, human and organisational in nature. On the technical side, many hospitals are typically ...
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Topics:
Lone Workers,
Health and Safety,
Hospitals,
Safety Management,
Critical Alarm Management
Any manufacturing enterprise has multiple different components feeding into its day to day production operations. This includes deliveries of materials and their storage in a warehouse, processing them in a factory and then shipping them to the customer. Ultimately, whilst all of these functions ...
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Topics:
Lone Workers,
Manufacturing Industry,
Safety Management,
Critical Alarm Management
Many industrial facilities are dangerous to lone workers, but petrochemical sites are some of the most hazardous. Although overall injuries and deaths have fallen over the past few decades (due in large part to comprehensive safety legislation), there is still an ever-present risk of a serious ...
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Topics:
Lone Workers,
Petrochemical,
Safety Management,
Lone Working Brochures,
Critical Alarm Management
A manufacturing plant is a large and complex facility, housing a huge array materials, machinery, systems and employees. All of these components present their own unique challenges, but one problem that unifies them is communication. Specifically, the ability to relay pertinent information quickly ...
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Topics:
Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical,
Safety Management,
Communication Brochures,
Critical Alarm Management
