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Record Ref : FOI 4921
Date Received : 01/08/2016
Date Completed : 30/08/2016
Organisation :
Application Type : Private Individual
Category : Policies and Procedures
Question
Q1: Does your local authority issue guidance to those who work on their own? Q2: Approximately, how many employees of your local authority are now classed as lone workers? As a percentage of total number of employees? Q3: Are those employees who undertake lone working provided any form of specialised training, such as conflict avoidance or De-escalation techniques? Q4: Are lone workers issued any PPE safety equipment or means for signalling an emergency (i.e. personal alarms, pagers, mobile phones?) Q5: Does the Local Authority provide this equipment / service or is it outsourced to private sector companies? If so, whom? Q6: How many assaults were reported by staff to the Local Authority in 2015 (if no stats known, then for the year 2014). Q7: Please provide the name and job titles of the person(s) responsible for the safety of your local authority’s lone workers or lone worker policy and lone working risk assessments (health and safety manager?) Q8: Please list the contact details (phone, email) of these person(s) responsible.
Answer
1. Yes, Lone Worker Policy has been approved 2. We do not hold this information as this information is not collated 3. Yes 4. Mobile phones 5. Provided by LA 6. 1 7. Alyn Dinham, Health & Safety Manager 8. Civic Centre, Castle Street, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8AN. Tel 01685 724677, email human.resources@merthyr.gov.uk