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What does HSE mean? In legal practice, “HSE” means the Health and Safety Executive, the Great Britain regulator that investigates incidents, serves improvement and prohibition notices, and prosecutes breaches of workplace health and safety law. It is established by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, which defines its enforcement powers and duties, exercised alongside local authorities. Since 1 April 2014 the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has been a separate, independent public corporation under the Energy Act 2013. ONR (not HSE) enforces health and safety law on GB nuclear licensed sites; HSE remains the enforcing authority outside the nuclear site licence boundary,...

Lone Working: Employer Obligations, Employee Responsibilities, Risk Assessment, Protection and Homeworking—Policies, Training, Supervision and Monitoring

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Practice notes

What's the issue?

The Health and Safety Executive (hse) describes lone workers as individuals who carry out their duties on their own, without close or direct supervision.

Examples include:

people working from home
people whose roles take them away from a fixed base
professionals visiting domestic and commercial premises
people working apart from others on the same premises, such as cleaners, security, maintenance and reception staff, or those working outside normal business hours

Evolving working practices and the growing use of technology are increasing how many people fall into the lone worker category.

Employers are accountable for lone worker safety during working hours, whether staff are in the office, in a vehicle, working from home or undertaking a home visit. This duty relates not only to physical wellbeing but also to mental wellbeing.

Setting up a safe and healthy environment for lone workers can differ from arranging health and safety for other employees; they must not be exposed to greater risk than anyone else working for you.

Responsibilities

By law, employers have defined duties for the safety of their employees, and employees themselves also share responsibility...

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