Near Misses and the Things Not Reported
The early warning for lone working, and the specific reasons workers in this situation do not report.
Procedure
Running it
Scheduling is the most powerful control in this subject and is rarely treated as one. Testing is the only way to know whether any of it works.
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Training That Changes Anything
Most lone worker training is a briefing about a device. What it should cover, and the two things that have to be practised.
Procedure
What It Costs and What It Saves
The honest case, which does not rest on preventing a rare catastrophe, and the costs usually left out of the proposal.
Analysis
Involving the People It Is For
Safety equipment imposed without consultation is worn intermittently. What to ask, and what the answers change.
Procedure
Testing the Whole Chain
The only way to know whether any of this works, and the specific tests that find the failures nobody expects.
Procedure
Where to Start
A first quarter that produces a working arrangement without buying anything, in an order that frequently changes the purchase.
Procedure
How These Programmes Fail
The recurring failures, each findable in an afternoon, each with a specific correction.
Analysis
Who Owns the Arrangement
The recurring work a lone worker programme generates, and what decays first when nobody has it.
Analysis
Small Organisations
Six people, no safety department, and the same duties. What is proportionate, and the one arrangement that matters most.
Analysis
Scheduling as a Safety Control
The rota decides who is alone, where, at what hour and under what pressure. It is the most powerful control in this subject and is rarely treated as one.
Analysis
The Policy Document
What belongs in it, what belongs elsewhere, and the sentences that are usually written with a qualifier that removes their meaning.
Procedure
The First Ninety Days
What to watch after a programme starts, when problems are cheap to fix and the workforce is deciding whether to believe in it.
Procedure
The Numbers Worth Watching
Six measures that describe whether the arrangement works, and the ones that mostly describe the workforce.
Reference
The Thing You Are Spending
The programme runs on cooperation that can be withdrawn silently. What buys it, what spends it, and how the loss appears.
Analysis