Retailers, engineers, charities, universities and a general election campaign. Lone working looks different in every sector, and so does the way Safepoint is used.
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Senior Technical & Quality Manager, AM Fresh Group, a global produce company employing over 5,000 staff worldwide
Head of Security, East of England Co-op
Every sector has its own kind of lone working. Here is how organisations like yours use Safepoint.
Opening up, closing down, late shifts, deliveries and back-of-house work mean retail staff are routinely alone with cash, stock and the public.
Store and back-of-house teams working alone.
Store teams covering early and late shifts alone.
Staff opening and closing stores alone.
Bar and kitchen staff on late shifts.
Night and housekeeping staff working alone.
Delivery drivers and store staff.
Showroom and delivery teams.
Field service engineers, site visits and out-of-hours work at customer premises, often across borders.
Field engineers at customer premises.
Engineers operating alone in a large facility.
Site teams and surveyors alone.
Technicians in hospitals and clinics.
Technical staff out of hours.
Solar farms, substations, wind sites and plant rooms are remote by nature. Engineers often have no colleague within an hour and patchy mobile signal.
Engineers on solar and battery sites.
Field engineers at remote sites.
Engineers at plants and remote sites.
Service engineers at customer sites.
Assessors visiting homes alone.
Surveys, inspections and site visits happen alone, on site before the trades arrive or after they’ve gone, in buildings that are empty for a reason.
Site inspections and lone visits.
Facilities teams working in buildings alone.
Staff on development sites and show homes.
Staff travelling and working alone.
Home visits, community work and animal welfare calls, where the risk is other people or animals.
From hospital ward staff to community teams.
Officers attending welfare calls at private addresses.
Staff and volunteers visiting older people at home.
Community and fundraising staff out alone.
Door-to-door work, high-profile public-facing roles and staff whose job puts them in front of strangers.
Canvassers, staff and MPs during a general election.
Campaigners and staff working door to door.
Public-facing staff across departments.
Security patrols, out-of-hours lab work, estates teams and halls staff on large open campuses.
Security, estates and out-of-hours staff.
Lone working across a large campus.
Estates and security teams on patrol.
Airside, dockside and on the water: environments where a fall or an incident can go unnoticed for a long time.
Airside and ground staff working alone.
Crews and engineers on and around the water.
Tenancy visits, void properties, packhouses, farms, stadiums and training grounds. Lone working turns up in every kind of organisation.
Housing officers visiting tenants and properties.
Staff across farms, packhouses and night shifts.
Stadium and training ground staff.
Farm and packhouse staff across various sites.
