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Your Safety Matters #002

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



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