Hello All

1st post and new IOSH Member here. I have recently taken my 1st full time Health and Safety role at a new company. I have been assessment, amending and improving a huge amount of areas but I have one issue that Im slightly struggling with.

Before I started (before the company had a full time H&S advisor) we had a new off site test facility built. Since joining I have been up to the site and conducted an initial Risk Assessment before the site is handed over to operations.

The site is away from out "main site" about 1.5miles away. There is to be various testing going on. Quite a bit to do with large magnetic fields. There is also an area (seperate hut) where we have a large water bath, The bath is about 500mm above the gound but about 2M deep. There is going to be some lone working on the site (not in the water tub area as I have been incredibly insistant that there is not to be no lone working in this hut).

My question is, has any one had any experience with lone working deivces and magnetic fields?

Im looking into a comapny that provides a mobile app for lone working which might work but curious for other opinions and experiences.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Have you ascertained there are no "not spots" for communications e.g. due to steel construction behaving like farraday cages blocking signals?

That these large magnetic fields themselves will not create issues with standard communication devices?