General Statements
Workers who carry out their role in isolation are at a higher risk than those who work with others, especially if the worker is asked to work late hours. If something happens to a lone worker, how do they let others know in order to get help? SelfDesign’s policy for checking the well-being of a worker assigned to work alone or in isolation is described within this document.
Scope
SelfDesign workers who work alone at times. Details of the system are included below.
Policy
Most SelfDesign contractors (“workers”) are seen and heard by other people during the course of their work days, because they live with a spouse, or work with others. However, because those individuals are not trained by SelfDesign in emergency protocols should the worker become ill or injured while working for SelfDesign, WorkSafeBC (WSBC) still considers the worker to be working alone.
SelfDesign will provide training to all workers of the SelfDesign firm so that they know to use the monitoring system whenever they are doing SelfDesign contract work, unless they are physically working alongside another SelfDesign co-worker. Communicating digitally via text, email, video chat or phone is still considered working alone by WSBC standards.
Change Log
- Policy page updated Oct 16, 2018
- Last reviewed/updated July 31, 2016