| Your Safety Matters
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| | working alone where they cannot be seen
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| This information letter is distributed to
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| | or heard and will not be visited by
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| those people who are ensuring that their
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| | another worker for some time. This can
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| workplace is safe and healthy. This
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| | occur in any workplace.
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| includes members of OHS Committees, OHS
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| | The time in which the employee will be
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| Representatives, Safety
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| | alone may only be quite short but
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| Officers,Supervisors, Managers and
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| | nevertheless could result in a tragedy.
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| Directors. "Your Safety Matters"
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| | An emergency situation may arise because
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| (formerly "Committee Member") is free
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| | of a medical condition, an accidental
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| information letter which has been
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| | work-related injury or because the
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| distributed since 1996.
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| | employee is attacked by an intruder or
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| At work Alone
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| | member of the general public. You may
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| In some instances an employee has to work
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| | have an employee who works in an area of
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| alone and that in itself could create a
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| | your workplace where there are no other
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| risk that has not been anticipated.
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| | employees, or perhaps you have an
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| Some years ago an employee was working
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| | employee who works when everyone else has
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| alone on the weekend at a water
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| | gone home.
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| reservoir. The full details of this
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| | If you have an employee who works alone,
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| tragic incident are not known but
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| | a risk assessment should be carried out
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| apparently he fell into the reservoir and
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| | and steps taken to control any risks
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| drowned. No one was there to hear his
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| | involved in that situation.
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| cries for help and render assistance.
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| | WorkSafe in Western Australia has
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| There were safety buoys nearby but nobody
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| | published a useful checklist of factors
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| was there to throw one to the drowning
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| | that may increase risk for people who
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| man.
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| | work alone, on page 4 of their Working
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| When we think of people working alone we
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| | Alone Guide. You can download a copy of
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| tend to think of an employee who is in an
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| | this via our website at
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| isolated location such as an employee on
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| | This publication provides general
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| a farm, a geologist doing a survey, or an
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| | information about ohs. It is not a legal
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| employee in a forest operation.
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| | opinion and does not represent a
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| However isolation itself is not the basic
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| | comprehensive statement of the law to be
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| factor that creates the risk.
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| | applied to a particular problem.
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| The risk arises because someone is
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