Flying solo” on the job is one thing if you’re a telecommuter on a laptop in the warmth of your den; it’s something else entirely if you’re on the road delivering packages, trucking freight long haul, up on a telephone pole, digging a pipeline ditch, or driving hundreds of miles making sales call. And the cold temperatures; short daylight hours; and possible icy, snowy, windy conditions of winter compound all the potential risks faced by many lone workers.
What if you have a lone worker down in a 12-foot deep trench in freezing rain when the dirt walls give way?