Maintenance & Utilities Worker

Whilst maintenance / Utilities workers can also face their fair share of social risk, their primary risk is often environmental as a result of the job they carry out combined with any risks posed by a location. Environmental risk can potentially result in a lone worker becoming ‘man-down' due to incapacity through a trip, slip or fall. Where an alarm cannot be manually raised, an Identicom device with an automatic man-down function facilitates a worker to raise an alarm should the worst occur. Risks of this type can potentially be reduced by equipping staff to effectively carry out dynamic risk assessments.

Slips, Trips and falls are a major concern across UK industry and cost an estimated £700 million in 2008 alone, with 61 deaths and 14,000 serious industries being suffered. In 2008 / 09 there were 10,368 major non-fatal slip/trip accidents and 23,797 slip / trip accidents that resulted in a staff absence of over three days.

Organisations with workers facing environmental risk should consider the raft of Health & Safety legislation imposed by the HSE (Such as Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 & Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999) but also consider more recent criminal legislation such as the Corporate Manslaughter act of 2007. Breaches of Health & Safety legislation can result in fines being levied that are hundreds of thousands of pounds equalling a serious financial risk to a business should the worst occur. The first Corporate Manslaughter ruling made against an SME resulted in a fine of £385,000; however the act allows limitless fines to be levied against organisations potentially, therefore if a large multinational organisation is found guilty it could result in the levy of a much larger fine.

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