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Posted By patrick o brien
Has anybody information on legal requirements or best practice etc for a lone worker coming off a shift at midnight in an semi isolated location e.g. at the edge of a town. Would an organisation have an obligation for their safety after they finish their shift?
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Posted By fats van den raad
I know it sounds heartless,but legally employers obligation stops as soon as person has clocked off and left the premises. Of course this does not stop the more caring employer to go that extra bit to ensure employee safety, but there is no legal obligation.
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Posted By Jonathan Breeze
It depends,
Fats has mentioned the moral argument.
An ovewhelming financial argument could probably be made along the lines of the cost to retrain a replacement should something go wrong.
There would I suggest be a legal arguement if the person ended up out of town and this was away from their normal place of work, in the same way that a company would hold a legal responsibility for say a sales rep who was normally office based but had driven a distance to visit a client.
However, this may not be the case here. Can you give the forum any more info to run with?
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Posted By Dave Daniel
The Government does provide guidance on personal safety which can be accessed via Internet - from recollection this is on the Home Office/Policing section of Gov Websites.
As part of our own guidance/safety rules we prepare for our clients, we tend to include extracts as useful guidance where lone working, especially with females, is an issue, but there is of course no continuing legal duty once work finishes.
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