About

Fifty notes on lone worker safety, written from the operator's side and taking the worker's view as a design input rather than an obstacle.

Who this is for

Whoever has been asked to put something in place and needs to know what will actually protect anybody. Whoever will answer the alarms, which is the job nobody budgets. And the people working alone, whose belief that somebody is at the other end determines whether any of it is used.

How the notes are written

Checks you can run, starting with an unannounced test of the escalation tree at the hour the work actually happens.

The uncomfortable findings included. A service with no withdrawals in a year has workers who do not believe the policy. Most escalation trees contain somebody who left. And an assessment concluding "safe because the worker has a device" has assessed nothing.

Limits stated plainly. Three notes are entirely about what these systems cannot do, what nothing fixes, and the arrangements that cost nothing and are skipped anyway.

What is deliberately absent

How to enable continuous tracking quietly. How to use check-in data for timekeeping. How to present a device as a control for a hazard where help arrives too late by definition.

These appear only in the notes explaining why they should not be done, and requests to help with them are declined in the same terms.

No effectiveness figures

None are quoted, deliberately. The published figures in this field are almost all before-and-after comparisons at single organisations, and repeating them would repeat the error these notes describe.

Every number worth having here is one you produce from your own arrangement, and the notes say how to produce each.