When disaster strikes, workers must know how to stay safe. That can be even more difficult for those who are working alone.

Lone working is common across many high-risk industries in the UK. Construction, utilities, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing and security often rely on workers carrying out tasks without direct ...

In the summer of 2015, a worker died from acute methylene chloride exposure while repairing a bathtub in a public housing complex in Cleveland. The 30-year-old was working alone at the time. His body ...

Industrial hygiene programs are designed for supervised workplaces, but lone workers operate without oversight—creating hidden gaps in hazard detection, exposure monitoring, and emergency response.