Frequently Asked Questions
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
Each province has their own definition, but generally the laws written state that employers must have procedures in place to ensure the well-being of workers who work alone or in isolation. Lone workers must be able to get assistance if they are injured at a work site where help is not readily available. Contact LWSS for a copy of your Provinces regulations.
This is very common and many of our clients have workers who are wide roaming. To solve this problem, LWSS has integrated both SPOT and InReach Garmin satellite transceivers to various lone worker apps and portals where users can ‘Start, Check-in, End’ lone worker sessions. Workers also have a panic SOS button that can be pressed to declare an emergency to our 24/7 emergency monitoring center.
It is important that if workers are travelling that the monitoring center or first responder knows the location of the worker in the event of an issue. We would suggest one of our smart phone apps programmed for regular check-ins. The worker can use the app ad hoc and simply start a session when they are going to be working alone and end it when they are finished or in company of others.
If they are in the same location our low-cost text in solution or our automated call-in product backed by our 24/7 monitoring center is a good compliant choice.
Your company, or perhaps even you (as the owner) and maybe even your employed Safety Managers could face multiple fines from local, provincial, and federal jurisdictions, not to mention private litigation from the family of the worker. Having a compliant lone worker program is the least costly insurance any company can have. This is road you do not want to go down.
This happens more often than you would hope. Many of our clients are now writing their Lone Worker policies and procedures into their employee handbooks and employment contracts. This way if an employee ignores the rules, then in the very least your company has completed its due diligence. Safety starts at the top and having employees adhere to the rules can be challenging. We suggest that employees are made aware that it is the law.
Buddy systems are a slippery slope. Anytime that you rely on humans to ‘always’ be available and to manage field personnel on their own, then there is going to come a time when the program fails. It’s not a question of ‘if’ the buddy system fails, it is ‘when’. We always encourage our clients to embrace current technology to protect workers as there is zero room for error when lives are at stake.