Health & Safety
Most lone working policies fail in the same place: nobody agreed who is expecting the call. Gaffer's lone worker assessment records the check-in interval, the named contact and their phone number, alongside the risks that made lone working a question in the first place.
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An assessment per worker and activity, ending in an explicit decision about whether lone working is allowed at all.
Record the check-in interval in minutes, the contact's name and their phone number. A procedure that names a person and a number is one somebody can actually follow.
Physical attack, medical episode, accident, working at height, hazardous substances, remote location, working outside hours and no local emergency contact — each flagged rather than bundled into one score.
The assessment ends with whether lone working is permitted and any restrictions. Some tasks should not be done alone, and the record should say so.
Lone worker assessments sit with your jobs, sites and staff records, so the assessment covers a real person doing real work.
No — but under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations you have to assess the risks of it and put controls in place. Some tasks, like most confined space entries and much live electrical work, should not be done alone. The assessment is where you record that decision and the reasoning.
Gaffer records whether GPS tracking and a panic alarm have been provided as part of the assessment, and the live staff map shows where your team is during the working day. The assessment itself is the risk record, not the tracking device.
Each assessment carries a review date you set. In practice they should be revisited when the work changes, the worker changes, or after any incident or near miss involving lone working.
Assessments are recorded against a worker and an activity, because the individual risk factors — medical, experience, capability — are part of what you are assessing. For a team doing identical work you would copy the assessment per person rather than assess them as a group.
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